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Good evening everyone Sam talk live episode number
161 the AMSAT Academy part of the 2019 Hamvention
preview recorded live on Thursday, April 18 2019
and a happy World Amateur Radio Day to you. What
a great day it's World Ham Radio Day and start
of Hamvention preview right here on ham talk
live can't wait Greatest time of the year to
be a ham Well, I'm your host Neil rap wb9 vpg.
Thanks for tuning in to this episode of ham talk
live tonight We're kicking off our annual hamvention
preview shows and we'll be joined by Paul Stetzer
in 8HM. And we'll take your calls live in just
a few minutes. Last week here on the show, Melinda
Zimper, Lee Height, Kate CLI, and Jocelyn Breaux,
KD8 VRX. We're here to talk about the 75th anniversary
celebration of the Voice of America Bethany Station.
If you missed that. Show you can listen anytime
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app or YouTube. Or you can catch the rebroadcast
also on WTWW. That's 5085 AM Saturday evenings
at a about 6 30 p .m eastern time and our ham
vincen preview indeed does begin tonight with
paul talking about the amsat academy next week
michael coulter whci will fill us in on all of
the ham vincen award winners including one that
will join us dr nathaniel forsell w2naf who's
been on the show before a couple of times he's
this year's Ham of the Year. And then on May
2nd we'll preview the WWV Forum, which will talk
about the 100th anniversary of WWV this year.
And on May 9th, Michael at WHCI will be back
again to give us the latest news and changes
to this year's Hamvention. And on Hamvention
Eve, May 16th, don't forget, HamTalk Live will
be coming to you live from Dayton as we will
bring you up to the minute weather, traffic and
parking reports and all the information you need.
to make your Hamvention trip a success and go
as smoothly as possible. So get your questions
ready to go about the AMSAT activities and if
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8HM is the executive vice president and member
of the board of directors of the Radio Amateur
Satellite Corporation or AMSAT North America.
He's also a member of AMSAT UK and the Potomac
Valley Radio Club. Paul first became licensed
at the age of 14 and upgraded to extra within
a few months and Paul has a long list of awards
he has earned on the air and is formerly a member
of I gotta throw in the college affiliation here
since I'm one of these school ham radio educator
types of the Michigan State University amateur
radio club program up there. So good to see Paul
sticking around through college and still here
in ham radio. So Paul, welcome to ham talk live.
Thank you, Neil. Great to be here tonight. Before
we get started talking about the AMSAT Academy
and all the activities We want to take just a
moment to To reflect on dr. Owen Gary at w5 LFL
Owen became a silent key this week and His son
Richard w5 kwq was on the show here back in episode
49 and Not only was Owen the first to take ham
radio to space, but his son also took ham radio
to space with the Soyuz rocket and went as a
tourist, where Owen went as a researcher. So,
Paul, let's talk about Dr. Garriott here for
just a moment and what... he met to AMSAT. Yeah,
Owen was certainly a pioneer of amateur radio
in space. His flight aboard Columbia in 1983
really set the stage for all of our future activities
in human spaceflight, future shuttle missions,
Mir space station, and now of course aboard the
International Space Station. And hopefully in
the future there is an AMSAT and ARIS international
team pursuing some plans that Owen had hoped
to fulfill even back in the later stages of the
Apollo program to fly ham radio to the moon,
including on, and now we're working towards flying
amateur radio on the lunar gateway. So really
his presence as an astronaut and an amateur radio
operator really got the foot in the door for
amateur radio operations from space so it's certainly
a sad week. Yeah it sure is and you know there's
a lot of people who were around to hear him from
space and Remember, you know the cover of QST
with the little hatch that he had the antenna
in and everything So I want to play just a little
clip here of a recording from when I was 12 years
old Was at home listening hoping that I would
would hear and this was the first Transmission
that that I ever heard from space satellite or
space station or shuttle or otherwise so this
is a recording from Dr. Owen Gehry at W5LFL in
space. So that was W5LFL from the Space Shuttle
and in just a moment to remember Dr. Owen Gary
at W5LFL. okay well on a happier note we have
an AMSAT Academy coming up we have Hamvention
coming up and so we want to talk a little bit
about this now this is the the first time that
this has been done at Hamvention and this is
kind of been a progression so Paul tell us all
about the AMSAT Academy Yeah, so the AMSAT Academy,
it's going to be a day -long comprehensive instructional
session held the day before Hamvention. That's
Thursday, May 16th. This will be the first time
we're doing it at Hamvention. The first sort
of session, it wasn't called AMSAT Academy, but
the first day -long instructional session was
back in 2014 at the AWRL Centennial Convention
in Hartford. And then last fall at the Duke City
Hamfest, we also conducted a day -long AMSAT
Academy session. So looking forward to it this
year at the Dayton Amateur Radio Association
clubhouse in Dayton. And the session's going
to cover the history of AMSAT and amateur radio
satellites, current satellites that are in orbit,
what equipment you need, and how to work the
current satellites to include FM satellites,
the linear transponder satellites, as well as
digital birds as well. The sessions are going
to be led by AMSAT's president, Joe Speyer, K6WAO,
and our Vice President of User Services. Robert
Bankston, a KE -4AL, and I think we'll have a
few others participating as well. So we're really
looking forward to it. Yeah, it sounds like a
great opportunity to learn from the best of,
you know, how to get on these satellites and
how to How that all works and you know you had
a whole day to do that is a great opportunity
too because a lot of times you get a little bit
here and a little bit there and by being able
to Take out an entire day. That's that's a pretty
cool opportunity and How do people sign up and
register for that? Yeah, so anybody can register
on the AMSAT store at www .amsat .org. The registration
fee for the session is $85. It includes a digital
copy of our newly revised 2019 Getting Started
with Amateur Satellites book, a one -year AMSAT
basic membership, which is a $44 value right
there, as well as a pizza lunch. All included
for the day. It's going to begin at 9 a .m. Again
on Thursday May 16th and last until about 5 p
.m Now if anybody who wants to attend is an AMSAT
member? registering for the for the session will
just add a another 12 months to their to their
membership All right, very good. So chance to
to find out more about AMSAT and satellites at
the AMSAT Academy. The day before, it's Hamvention
Eve. And then make sure you tune in to HamTalk
Live that evening and we'll catch you up on all
the things you missed while you were studying
about satellites and how the weather's going
and all that good stuff. So be sure to check
that out. Well, you've got a lot going on. In
addition to the AMSAT Academy, you've got stuff
going on all weekend. And I know there's a dinner
and there's a banquet that coincides with the
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio or Tapper, folks.
So tell us about all of the events going on in
addition to the Academy at this year's Hamvention.
Well, Hamvention Weekend, as you said, it's always
a packed time with lots of exciting activities.
Right after the AMSAT Academy, we do hold an
informal dinner at Ticket's Pub and Eatery in
Fairborn, starting about 6 or 6 .30 p .m. there
at the pub. There's no program or speaker, but
it is an excellent opportunity to meet up with
other AMSAT members and enjoy good Greek and
American food and a good beer list with some
local microbrews from the Dayton area. So there's
no need for anybody to sign up. If you can make
it, just stop on by and have a great time. So
that's our Thursday night activity. Friday night
after... after the first day of Hamvention concludes
is our annual banquet. Now with our annual banquet
we hold it in conjunction with, as you said,
the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Association,
TAPR. And each year we alternate with them on
who chooses the speaker. So this year it's the
TAPR -AMSAT banquet, next year it'll be the AMSAT
-TAPR banquet. This year, again, it was Tapper's
turn to pick the speaker, and the speaker is
going to be Dr. PJ Erickson, W1PJE from the MIT
Haystack Observatory, and he's going to give
a presentation entitled, New Frontiers and Human
Understanding of Geospace, Radio Explorations
of Near Earth Space from Top to Bottom through
Joint Amateur and Scientist Partnerships. I think
it's going to be an excellent event with an excellent
speaker. It's always good food, good conversation,
as well as a cash bar. Okay, well that sounds
like that dinner is out of this world. Yes, absolutely.
Tickets are $40. can be purchased again on the
AMSAT online store, which is www .amsat .org.
The deadline is Tuesday, May 14th, so we don't
sell any tickets at Hamvention. Just everybody
must register by May 14th so we know the correct
amount of food to order and everything. Very
good. Well, yeah, I'm sorry I had to throw the
pun in there about out of this world. topic.
But anyway, it will be a great event. So make
sure you check that out. And then you've got
some forums going on and demos and all kinds
of stuff. So keep going. Yeah. So as always,
there are forums sponsored by AMSAT. This year,
we're going to do things a little different.
Normally, the AMSAT forum includes the ARIS update
as well, the amateur radio on the International
Space Station update. New this year, there's
going to be a separate forum for ARIS where the
ARIS team will present an overview and status
of the program. And then they're going to conduct
a panel and Q &A session with some ARIS experts
in operations, education, hardware, experimentation
and exploration. And they also hope to have some
surprise guests attending. That forum is going
to be on Friday afternoon at 1 .15 p .m. And
then on Saturday, we'll have our main AMSAT forum
at 1210 p .m. Our president, Joe Speyer, K6WAO,
is going to highlight some recent activities,
challenges, accomplishments, ongoing projects,
and any late breaking news that we're able to
share. We also have reports from our Vice President
of Engineering, Jerry Buxton, N0JY, who's going
to talk about the FOX -1 project and wrapping
that up with the hopefully summer 2019 launch
of FOX -1E or RATFX -SAT -2. And then he'll talk
about our GALF or Greater Orbit Larger Footprint
satellite project as well. and give an update
on the current status of that program. Our Vice
President of Educational Relations, Ellen Johnston,
KU2Y, will introduce the AMSAT CubeSat simulator,
which is a really, really interesting project
that is basically an educational model of a CubeSat
that's fully functional with solar panels, telemetry
transmitter, and can really help students understand
how these CubeSats operate in space. And then
finally, our Vice President of User Services,
Robert Bankston, KE4AL, will discuss our 50th
anniversary operating events and update us on
the new AMSAT Ambassadors field operations program.
And knowing Robert, between sessions, he will
be out activating grids. Yeah, yeah either he
may be yes, I Already saw his tweet. He's already
got he's already got the little grid squares
filled in with the dates and everything so he's
Ready to activate a couple of new grids. So I'm
sure he will enjoy that as well. So all kinds
of stuff going on during hand -vention weekend
I know I was just telling Paul before the show
I'm looking at all the things that I have to
get done and I'm like, I think I'm gonna have
to like make a Special calendar just for ham
vision weekend for where I have to be win. So
you Here's more stuff to go to during Amvij and
if there wasn't enough, now here's more. So great
opportunities to learn about things in the forums
and the dinners and the Amesat Academy, just
all kinds of great stuff. So we're gonna come
back here in a minute. We're gonna take your
calls. We're gonna talk a little bit about the
booth and the demos and that kind of thing when
we come back and we'll be back after this word
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calls. So if you have a question for Paul, give
us a call at 812 -650 -9556. Again, that number
is 812 -650 -9556. Or you can tweet us at HamTalk
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have to call in later or ask your questions later.
But if you're listening live right now, it's
time to call 812 -650 -9556. And we've got a
few messages here. Most people cheering us on
here. Ruth, KM4LAO says that she's doing her
material science and nanotechnology homework
while listening to Paul talk about The AMSAT
booth and AMSAT Academy and she's gonna be helping
out at the booth a little bit. So Let's talk
about the AMSAT booth Yeah, well and certainly
we certainly look forward to having her and then
the rest of the volunteers there to help out
It's it's always great to to get everybody together
helping out and we have a beginners corner that
where people can come by and ask just basic questions
about satellite communications, how to get started
and things like that. And that's always one of
our great resources. But again, our booth this
year is going to be very exciting. First of all,
we're going to have some 50th anniversary AMSAT
gear, t -shirts, polos and hats. with our special
50th anniversary logo and design on them. So
those will be great. Great collector's items
and great items to wear around. So be sure to
stop by and pick those up. And as we introduce
at Dayton every year, our new updated for 2019
Getting Started with Amateur Satellites book.
It's a great resource for... the new or even
the experienced amateur satellite operator to
read through and either learn about something
new or refresh some of your knowledge. So that's
always a big seller and that will be for sale
at the MSAT booth as well. We always have a setup
for tracking software demonstration, exhibit
on ERAS and our engineering team. But special
for this year is going to be what we're calling
Oscar Park. It's a display of satellite models
from throughout AMSAT and even from prior to
AMSAT's existence. So throughout our history,
we're going to have models of Oscar VII, the
Phase III satellites, the FOX satellite. demo
model will be there, as well as actually working
demo models of both the Arisat -1 satellite that
was deployed from the ISS back in 2011, and the
working demo model of Oscar -1, which will transmit
the CW tone that varies its speed based on the
temperature. So be sure to stop on by and see
that. That's going to be a very special exhibit
with all those models. for the 50th anniversary
of AMSAT. All right, 812 -650 -9556 is the phone
number to call if you'd like to join in tonight.
We've got some people here on Spreaker. Pat,
K7LNP, good evening to you as well, and Carl,
KD9HQT, and we've also got Jill, KD8QGA, and
Chris, AA4CB. all chatting it up here tonight
so thank you for listening and if you have a
question give us a call it's 812 -650 -9556 or
you can tweet us again it's at hamtalklive over
on twitter well in addition to the park and the
booth and and the academy and all of this stuff
You've got the demo station now. I always remember
the demo station from back at her arena Even
though the place was caving in I still have fond
memories of her arena and you guys would be out
there in the in the tent and I'd always go flying
by and seeing that you know the antennas getting
pointed up in the sky and everything and doing
everything and So tell us what you've got going
on this year for those demos of all the satellite
operations. Yeah, so, and our setup in Xenia,
frankly, is a lot better than it was at Hera.
It's right next, literally right next to our
booth, right adjacent, just outside of Maxim
Hall. Coming into the Hamvention from the main
entrance, you'll see the tent and our setup,
and then right inside that building is our booth.
So it's an excellent setup. And we have an electrical
outlet. So that's excellent as well. That's a
bonus, yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Don't have to worry
about bringing battery power. So it's a great
setup there. So as I've done for the past few
years, I'll be personally leading the satellite
operating demo station. What we do as a philosophy
with this demo station is really a basic. satellite
setup. We don't want to set up too much fancy
equipment and make it look expensive because
it's not. Operating satellites does not have
to be any more expensive than a modest HF station.
So I'll have a real basic setup, usually just
my pair of FT -817s. And we'll be using an Alaskan
Aero antenna on just a $20 speaker stand with
portable rotations, their 12 -volt Asel rotor,
which is a nice little thing. The antennas moving
around and tracking the satellites are always
a great sight. really attracts people to come
and see what we're doing in the booth. It's always
an exciting area to be and work some satellites.
show people who have never seen it being done
before how it all works. Unfortunately, the RF
environment at Hamvention, as you might imagine
for receiving satellites, is not ideal, but we
do our best to make some contacts on all the
satellites that pass over while the Hamvention
is open. I've always said that I'd love to see
a black body radiation study of Hamvention. With
all the RF running around, it would be so cool
to see this big blob of RF just hanging out over
Hamvention. So yeah, it's not exactly ideal for
demoing. Yeah, one thing I have always wanted
to demo, and I've tried this various years, is
the option of using your basic SDR dongle, like
a Funcube dongle or an AirSpy Mini or a similar
dongle style SDR radio with a computer to receive
the downlink while using an 817 for the uplink.
The problem is those dongles just don't really
work very well in the RF environment. at Hamvention,
so it's not a great demo. It's all in -band interference,
so there's no way to really filter that out.
It's a challenging environment, but again, we
do the best we can to make some contacts, and
we usually have a few other people. I know we'll
have probably a couple of people with their own
portable setups around. We'll work back and forth
with each other through the satellite. So it's
always a fun, always a real fun, informal time
and get to answer a lot of people's questions
and show them how it all works. All right. Well,
we do have a couple of questions coming in here,
so we'll get to some of those. And good evening
to my friend, Tim, KG9NA. Nice to see you in
here. And Carl says, cheesecake on an RF stick
instead of cheesecake on a stick. That's the,
the Hamvention tradition. Well, we've got a,
a question from Pat K7 LNP and it's a common
question. Do you ever think there will be an
Assail 2 Qo10 like geostationary satellite from
North America? Well, you know, that's certainly
a goal of ours now The the devil is certainly
always the the the cost of such an of such a
venture You know, you're talking several million
dollars and Realistically unless a great opportunity
comes by which that that great opportunity with
the Qataris and and AMSAT DL for for what's now
QO100. Those opportunities certainly don't come
around very often. But again, that is certainly
a goal of ours. And if we continue to pursue
opportunities to try to get something like that
for North America, for the Western Hemisphere,
because it would be an excellent resource and
excellent opportunity to be able to do that.
Yeah, and I Jerry Buxton went through some of
that discussion on an earlier episode too. If
you want to get all the gory details You can
go back and listen to the one where N0JY is on
and talk a little bit about that progression
of Trying to build toward that. So yeah, that'd
be great If we come up with the money to support
it, that would be absolutely wonderful. So we'll
see how the RF goes with the demos, but it really
doesn't take a whole lot sometimes, especially
the FM birds. I've been doing the FM birds and
honestly I need to get my arrow out more because
I just keep using the whip on the car and, you
know, as long as I stay on AO -91 or 92, I'm
good. Outside of that, not so much. So I'm going
to have to work on that this summer and start
using that aero a little bit more. So the demo
thing, you know, would be good because I could
see how you do some of those other satellites.
Yeah, absolutely stop on by and yeah, and we'll
probably have I said we'll probably have other
people showing you kind of different ways to
do it and It's it's it's well worth a visit.
I encourage anybody who has any interest in in
satellites to stop on by hopefully during a pass
now We will have a pass schedule That'll be posted
on the AMSAT website Under our hamvention section
as well as past schedules at the demo area and
at our booth So you'll know when to stop on by
for for different types of satellites All right,
and RJ WI 7AA Wants to know are there any updates
on Fox one II and where it is in the timeline?
well Fox 1E, RedFXSat -2, that satellite's done.
It's ready to go. It's awaiting launch. Now we're
hoping for a summer 2019 launch. The launch,
it'll be on Virgin Orbit's Launcher 1, which
is their new air launch system. So it's fly up
in a plane and then the rocket drops off the
side of the plane and fires and sends it off
into orbit. Now, again, that depends on their
testing schedule as they continue to develop
that new launch system. So again, we're hoping
for summer 2019, but you know how these things
go. These things do get held up sometimes, and
sometimes things do go wrong. So that's just
part of the learning curve. That'll happen. So
hopefully we'll we'll be hearing another bird
on this summer. So If you have a question, we're
getting close to the end here. So give us a call
eight one two six five zero nine five five six
or tweet us at ham talk live and We'll try to
get it in here before we shut down things for
the evening But just a lot going on here. So
Paul, let's just kind of recap again. Register
for the Academy where you can find information
on all these events that we've been talking about
tonight. Yeah, Neil. So all of the information
about our AMSAT activities at the Hanvention
is available on our website. There's a link right
at the top of the page. or there's also a link
in our events menu on the website as well. So,
again, register for the Academy on our website
and the Tapper AMSAT Bank. Those do require registration
before hamvention. The rest of the activities,
just stop on by. Okay. Well, I think that's going
to do it for tonight, but Paul, thanks so much
for coming on and telling us all about all the
cool stuff that's going to be happening at Hamvention
2019 this year. Any last words here before we
go? Well, thank you very much, Neil, for having
us on and we're certainly looking forward to
Hamvention. It's one of those crucial dates on
the amateur radio calendar. We've put a lot of
work into putting out a good show for everyone.
and spreading the word about amateur satellites
and AMSAT. All right, very good. Well, that's
a wrap for another episode of HamTalk Live and
another year of Hamvention Preview. Next week,
we'll keep on going with this. Michael Coulter,
W8CI, will be here to talk about the Hamvention
Award winners and will be joined by the 2019
Ham of the Year, Dr. Nathaniel Frisell, W2NAF.
So I'd like to thank my guest Paul Stetzer, N8HM,
and everybody out there in cyberspace for listening
and typing in and invite you back next Thursday
night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time for the preview
on The Hamvention Awards. So for a list of all
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