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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> w9rca-news-bounces@lists.w9rca.org [mailto:w9rca-news-bounces@lists.w9rca.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jim Keeth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> W9RCA Newsletter<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [W9RCA-News] Amateur Radio Assistance Requested<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See the AMSAT bulletin below. Also an ARRL news item here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.arrl.org/news/hams-invited-to-participate-in-a-research-project-on-the-iss">http://www.arrl.org/news/hams-invited-to-participate-in-a-research-project-on-the-iss</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">AMSAT News Service Bulletin 324.04<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">November 20, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To All RADIO AMATEURS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">BID: $ANS-324.04<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Amateur Radio Assistance Requested: ISS Plasma Thrust Shadow Experiment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TSNIIMASH) in<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Russia is conducting a series of space plasma experiments in order<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">to evaluate the shape of previously observed "dead" zone, or shadow-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ing due to the firing of an onboard arcjet plasma source.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Radio Amateurs are invited to participate in the Space plasma exper-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">iment "Shadow" onboard International Space Station (ISS). Integration<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">of Electric Thrust onboard a spacecraft poses a certain set of prob-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">lems including electromagnetic compatibility of ET. One matter of<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">interest is that highly ionized exhaust plumes of ET may scatter RF-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">signals producing large "dead" zone for communications.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This plasma screening effect should be thoroughly studied before<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">electric thrusters become standard onboard equipment. The investiga-<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">tion will help designers of future electrically propelled spacecraft<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">to minimize the hazard of communication disruption by ET plasma<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">plumes.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Central Research Institute has proposed an experiment using the<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">worldwide distribution of radio amateurs to receive the VHF packet<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">downlink (145.825 MHz) from a new plasma space experiment on the<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The amateur packet radio technology in the SpEx "Shadow" as proposed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">by astronaut Alexander Kalery, will use the AX25 packets transmitted<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">by "Master Stations" and reported by receiving amateur radio ground<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">stations to track the effect of the plasma shadow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The SpEx experiment will be enabled on the following schedule:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> SpEX Time On SpEX Time Off<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">November 25 1650 UTC November 28 0825 UTC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">December 2 1650 UTC December 5 0825 UTC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The master beacon stations for Europe, Asia, North America, and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Australia can be found at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/84nvl72">http://tinyurl.com/84nvl72</a> (knts.tsniimash.ru)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The main web page for the SpEx project can be found at:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://knts.tsniimash.ru/Shadow/en/Overview.aspx">http://knts.tsniimash.ru/Shadow/en/Overview.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This page contains a detailed description of the experiment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and instructions for submitting your signal reports.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">An example of the SpEx packets received by Mike Rupprecht, DK3WN<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">can be seen at: <a href="http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=23866">http://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=23866</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[ANS thanks TSNIIMASH for the above information]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> /EX<o:p></o:p></p>
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