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ANS 153 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – June 1, 2013:
* Deadline for AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Approaching
* Barry Baines, WD4ASW Interview with Amateur Radio Newsline
* IARU Issues Position Paper on Nanosatellites and Picosatellites
* Joe Spier K6WAO Joins ANS Editorial Staff
* ANTELSAT CubeSat
* 5 in EM55 Award
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ANS 146 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – May 25, 2013:
* First picture from ESTCube-1 ham radio CubeSat
* NEE-01 Pegasus 910 MHz TV Camera in Action
* Ecuador Pegasus CubeSat fears over space debris crash
* Argentinian CubeSat CubeBug-1 was also hit by space debris.
* NASA History Program Office Fall 2013 Internships
* Registration for the 5th European CubeSat Symposium (3-5 June 2013)
* NASA Seeks Academic Partners for SmallSat Technology Collaboration
* Satellite Applications Catapult Hackathon
* Amateur Radio Satellites for Emergency Communications
* NASA looking for far-out ideas
* Update: Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W Satellite Operations
* ARISS News
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
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ANS 139 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – May 18, 2013:
* AMSAT Fox-1 Launch Date Announced
* AMSAT At The Dayton Hamvention
* DARC and UBA Support Amateur Radio in Tunisia
* Frequencies announced for HamTV from the International Space Station
* AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium News
* Merritt Island High School StangSat Progress and Launch Date
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ANS 132 Weekly AMSAT Bulletin – May 11, 2013:
* AMSAT is Going to the Dayton Hamvention This Week
* AMSAT Engineering Will Show Fox-1 System Software Running on IHU
* AMSAT V/U/WX Receive Preamps at Dayton for Display and Sales
* New Fox-1 CubeSat Model to Debut at Hamvention 2013
* Updated AMSAT LVB Tracker to be Shown at Dayton
* “Dayton Only” Special Deals
* Signals Received From Estonia’s ESTCube-1 CubeSat
* AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Nominations Solicited
* ARISS School Contacts
* Museum Ships Weekend Special Event Station KK5W Satellite Ops
* Additional 2M Downlink Allocation Proposed for Amateur Satellites?
* HAMSAT VO-52 Celebrates 8th Year On Orbit
* SA AMSAT Space Symposium Coming to Pretoria on May 18
* 1000th Session of the Houston AMSAT Net Invites You to Check In
* NASA TV to Cover Soyuz Landing May 13
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
A reader points me to the news that Grote Reber, a ham radio operator and amateur astronomer, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of the radio telescope:
From the induction description:
Grote Reber (1911 – 2002)
Navigational Instrument
Patent No. 2,519,603
Radio telescopeReber, a pioneering radio astronomer, built the first substantial radio telescope dedicated to astronomy. Radio astronomy allows for the detection of objects and phenomena not possible with optical astronomy, utilizing a radio receiver that can amplify faint cosmic signals, making the waves strong enough to be recorded and charted.
More about Grote from the History of Radio Astronomy | Susquehanna Astronomical Society:
[…] the U.S. Radio Engineer and Amateur Radio Operator, Grote Reber (W8GFZ) (b.1911-d.2002) built the first radio telescope at his home in Wheaton, Illinois. His design was considerably more advanced than Jansky’s, consisting of a parabolic sheet metal mirror 9 meters in diameter, focusing to a radio receiver 8 meters above the mirror. The entire assembly was mounted on a tilting stand allowing it to be pointed in various directions, although not turned. The telescope was completed in 1937.
Reber’s first receiver operated at 3300 MHz and failed to detect signals from outer space, as did his second, operating at 900 MHz. Finally his third attempt at 160 MHz was successful in 1938, confirming Jansky’s discovery. He found that the radio radiation came from all along the plane of the Milky Way and from the Sun. Reber turned his attention to making a radio-frequency sky map, which he completed in 1941 and extended in 1943.
Reber later donated his telescope to the NRAO in Green Bank, West Virginia, and helped supervise its re-construction at that site. The telescope was then mounted on a turntable, allowing it to be pointed in any direction. Reber helped with a reconstruction of Jansky’s original telescope as well.
