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AMSAT NEWS SERVICE
ANS-313


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group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in

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In this edition:


* Neutron1 Launched from the ISS
* VUCC Awards-Endorsements for November 2020
* AMSAT GridMaster Award
* IARU Coordinates Frequencies for Six Satellites in October
* ARISS Team Attends ISS National Lab Education Summit
* Upcoming Satellite Operations
* Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts from All Over


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ANS-313 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 313.01

From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.

November 08, 2020
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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Neutron1 Launched from the ISS

Hawaii's first 3U CubeSat designed to detect neutrons was launched on

November 5, 2020 by the ISS and is now in Low Earth Orbit.


The science payload, a small neutron detector developed by Arizona

State University, will focus on measurements of low-energy secondary

neutrons - a component of the LEO neutron environment.


For the first month and during the spacecraft commissioning phase,

the beacon will transmit 1200bps BPSK every 60 seconds on the IARU

coordinated frequency of 435.300MHz . The Hawaii Space Flight

Laboratory welcomes the worldwide Amateur Radio community to collect

the beacons and forward them to n1-info@hsfl.hawaii.edu. The beacon

format is now public and published at:

https://tinyurl.com/ANS-313-Neutron1.

After the initial commissioning phase, Amateurs will be able to use

the V/U FM repeater during available times and according to the

available power budget. Stay tuned for more mission updates on their

Twitter account @HSFLNeutron1 and their website:

https://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/missions/neutron-1/.


[ANS thanks the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory for the above

information.]

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the AMSAT office
is closed until further notice. For details, please visit
https://www.amsat.org/amsat-office-closed-until-further-notice/

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VUCC Awards-Endorsements for November 2020

Here are the endorsements and new VUCC Satellite Awards issued by the

ARRL for the period October 1, 2020 through November 1, 2020.

Congratulations to all those who made the list this month!

CALL Oct Nov

KO4MA 1753 1779
N3GS 652 679
N0JE 655 675
KE4AL 625 631
K7TAB 600 627
WD9EWK(DM43) 623 625
KI7UNJ 551 576
N9FN 450 486
K0JM 300 403
N5BO New 401
N4DCW 300 400
WA9JBQ 355 375
VE6WK 207 355
AK7DD 255 326
KS1G 285 325
KF6JOQ 251 303
W4DTA 275 301
N6RFM 226 276
W2ZF 101 276
K8BL 257 274
N7AGF 200 240
N3CAL 171 181
W7YED 127 163
DL6IAN New 154
K3HPA 128 150
EA2AA 125 148
NA1ME 100 126
WD9EWK(DM42) 100 126
WY4X New 108
N7UJJ New 101
F4BKV New 100
W4WT New 100

If you find errors or omissions. please contact Ron off-list at

<mycall>@<mycall>.com and he will revise the announcement. This list

was developed by comparing the ARRL .pdf listings for the two months.

It's a visual comparison so omissions are possible. Apologies if your

call was not mentioned. Thanks to all those who are roving to grids

that are rarely on the birds. They are doing most of the work!

[ANS thanks Ron Parsons, W5RKN for the above information.]

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AMSAT GridMaster Award

With last week's activation of DL88, there are 4 new recipients of the

GridMaster award. They all sent in their applications within days of

each other.

#16 Chris AA8CH
#17 Robert KE4AL
#18 George N3GS
#19 Kerry WC7V

Awesome job and thanks to K5Z for activating the grid!

[ANS thanks Bruce Paige, KK5DO for the above information.]

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IARU Coordinates Frequencies for Six Satellites in October

During the month of October the IARU coordinated frequencies for six

upcoming Amateur Radio satellites:

+ OreSat0 (Portland State Aerospace Society at Portland State

University is a 1U CubeSat. The mission is to provide flight heritage

to the "OreSat bus", an open source card-cage based system that is

ideally suited for education CubeSat projects involving

interdisciplinary teams of students. Downlinks on UHF using CW

beacon, 9k6 G3RUH AX25/APRS packet beacon and a 96k GMSK

engineering downlink. Also downlink on S Band using amateur 802.11b

DPSK with 11M chip/sec spread and 1 Mbps data rate for bulk mission

data. Downlinks on 436.500 MHz and 2425.00 MHz have been

coordinated. Planning a launch with Momentus Space from Cape

Canaveral in February 2021 into a 450 km polar orbit. More info at:

http://oresat.org/ and https://github.com/oresat.

+ TartanArtibeus-1 (Carnegie Mellon University) is a 1P PocketQube.
The

Amateur Radio community globally will be provided with a delay

ping-back service, allowing Amateurs to send messages, with replies

from the satellite transmitted later. A UHF downlink using 3kbps FSK

compatible with RadioHead library. A downlink on 437.170 MHz has

been coordinated. Planning a SpaceX launch from KSC in December 2020

into a 550km SSO.

+ SATLLA-2 (Ariel University) is a 2P picosat that will take

low-resolution photos and will broadcast the photos over the Amateur

Radio with its position in orbit and data from its sensors. UHF and S

Band downlinks using LORA from 476bps to 9k6 bps. Downlinks on

437.250 MHz and 2401.000 MHz have been coordinated.Planning a SpaceX

launch into a 410 km 52 degree orbit in December 2020.

+ CSIROSat-1 (University of South Australia & CSIRO) is a 3U CubeSat

mission that will perform hyperspectral infrared imaging of the earth

for scientific research purposes. An experimental two-way link for

Amateur Radio operators to exchange short messages through a

‘ping-pong’ arrangement of data exchange is among the several

communications experiments. Proposing a 9k6 FSK downlink. A downlink

on 437.315 MHz has been coordinated. Planning a launch from Cape

Canaveral in March 2021 into an ISS orbit.


+ PyCubed-1 (Carnegie Mellon University) is a 1P PocketQube that will

test a novel 3-axis attitude control system based on magnetic torque

coils. In addition, it will test new low- power LoRa radios in

low-Earth orbit which will be of interest to many other Amateur Radio

small satellite operators. Proposing a 3kbps UHF downlink. A downlink

on 437.290 MHz has been coordinated. Packets are standard LoRa format

and are compatible with the RadioHead library. Planning a SpaceX

launch from KSC into a 550 km SSO in December 2020.

+ Grizu-263A (Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University) is a pocketcube

satellite with a digipeater mode that will allow forwarding of

received messages back to earth to support communication between

Amateur Radio operators. Proposing a UHF downlink using 4k8 FSK. A

downlink on 437.190 MHz has been coordinated. Planning a SpaceX

launch from Vandenberg into a 500 600 km SSO in December 2020.


Information on these and other upcoming satellites can be found at:

http://www.amsat.org.uk/iaru/.

[ANS thanks the IARU for the above information.]

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ARISS Team Attends ISS National Lab Education Summit

A group of ARISS team members took part in the three-day ISS National

Lab Education Summit on October 26-28, 2020. On Day 1, Space Station

Explorers Senior Education Manager Dan Barstow gave a presentation

titled “20 Years of STEM Education—the ISS National Lab Report. His

talk highlighted several of the Space Station Explorers programs,

and one was ARISS. Barstow related a small amount of ARISS’s long

history, described how it enhances youth education, and displayed

some of ARISS’s metrics on engaging youth.


Frank Bauer shared additional comments on ARISS activities and plans

such as this past summer’s balloon race using amateur radio payloads

and how ARISS transformed its school contacts in ways that

safeguarded students from Covid.


Rosalie White added that ARISS is not just K-12; colleges and

universities often host ARISS contacts with the students mentoring

elementary schools. She thanked Barstow for describing ARISS as

“having the power to combine ham radio and space exploration into a

magical elixir to engage students.”


Day 3 sessions focused on upcoming activities allowing students to

engage with the ISS. At another session, Barstow introduced the

Student Mission Control project, an initiative where students can

receive live ISS telemetry data in a mission control setting, and

then analyze and interpret the data. Barstow described the ARISS

contribution to this initiative, where on-board telemetry data

acquired by sensors attached to an ARISS-developed Raspberry Pi

computer can be transmitted from the ARISS on-board radio system and

directly received on the ground and evaluated by the Mission Control

students.

[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information.]

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Upcoming Satellite Operations

CN73,CN74,CN82,CN83, November 6-8, 2020
@KF6JOQ will be operating holiday style on FM. He will tweet as

soon as he knows were and when. His main goal is CN73/83 and to run

doubles. "Hope I can help a few."

KH67, November 11-21, 2020
7Q7RU on AO-7, RS-44 and QO-100. More information at: https://dxpedition.wixsite.com/7q7ru

HH02, November 13-15, 2020
Sandro Ribeiro, PY1SAN and Claudio Marcelo, PY1CMT are QRV on QO-100

with some opportunities AO-07, FO-29 or RS-44 using CW and SSB as

ZX6BA from Prado, Brazil, Bahia. The activity will be on several HF

bands too, using CW and FT8 on an Alex Loop Antenna with 5 watts.

QSL via LoTW.

FN53/54/55/56/57/64/65/66/67 November 13-18, 2020

@KL7TN will be in Maine. Details to follow.

GG99, November 16-18, 2020.
Sandro Ribeiro, PY1SAN and Claudio Marcelo, PY1CMT are QRV on QO-100

and maybe AO-07, FO-29, RS-44 using CW and SSB as PR1S from

Nova Almeida, Brazil, Espirito Santo. Activity will be on several HF

bands too, using CW and FT8 on an Alex Loop Antenna with 5 watts.

QSL via LoTW.

[ANS thanks Paul Overn, KE0PBR for the above information.]

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Hamfests, Conventions, Maker Faires, and Other Events

November 11, 2020
Rick Tejera K7TEJ from the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club (TBARC)

will be giving a presentation and demonstration of satellite

operations to the Northwest Christian School in Glendale, AZ. The

demo will be on SO-50 at 2323UTC. He will be using the club call

WB7TBC and the church is in Grid DM33wp. He may try to get a student

on the air. Please keep an ear out for Rick and respond to his call

as the kids will appreciate it. Rick will send a reminder as the

date gets closer.

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AMSAT, along with our ARISS partners, is developing an amateur
radio package, including two-way communication capability, to
be carried on-board Gateway in lunar orbit.

Support AMSAT's projects today at https://www.amsat.org/donate/

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ARISS News

No ARISS contacts are currently scheduled.

November 12: ARISS educator Kathy Lamont is scheduled to give a talk

at the online Virginia Association of Science Teachers Conference.

Her presentation is titled “How to Talk with an Astronaut 250 Miles

Above You.”


The latest information on the operation mode can be found at https://www.ariss.org/current-status-of-iss-stations.html

The latest list of frequencies in use can be found at https://www.ariss.org/contact-the-iss.html

The deadline for United States organizations to submit an ARISS
contact proposal is November 24, 2020. For more information, visit http://www.ariss.org/.


[ANS thanks Charlie Sufana, AJ9N for the above information.]

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Shorts from All Over

* EIRSAT-1 Video Available Online

The EIRSAT-1 CubeSat, built by students at University College Dublin

is due for launch on the Vega rocket in early 2021. David Murphy,

EI9HWB and Fergal Marshall of the EIRSAT-1 team gave a comprehensive

technical run-through of the satellite’s payload, subsystems and

onboard communications. You can watch the entire video presentation

at: https://amsat-uk.org/.

[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information.]


* Tel Aviv TAU-SAT1 Gets Press Coverage

The Times of Israel posted an informative article on the Tel Aviv

University's plans to launch a "shoebox-size" satellite next year.

Read the article at: https://tinyurl.com/ANS-313-Tel-Aviv.

[ANS thanks Mark Johns, K0JM for the above information.]

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73,
This week's ANS Editor,
Frank Karnauskas, N1UW
n1uw at amsat dot org

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