ARISS International Teleconference
Tuesday September 23, 11:30 UTC (7:30 am ET)
Participants:
Frank Bauer
Gaston Bertels
Robin Haighton
Ken Pulfer
Rosalie White
Keigo Komuro
Masanobu Tsuji
Sergej Samburov
Lou McFadin
Larry Agabekov
Mike Miller
Mark Steiner
Miles Mann
Dave Larsen
Carolynn Conley
Ken Nichols
Daniel Lamoureux
Interpreter: Edward Hairullin
Absent:
Mark Spencer
Scott Anderson
Tadeu Fernandes
Agenda:
Finished up with Starshine, but
status is unsure given the Columbia disaster.
Need to update membership, including European representative. Gaston will get back to the committee with a name, and Ken will update the website.
Will be meeting via telecon soon to get things going again, especially with the Russian proposal for Shadow
- will send out email with description of Shadow. NOTE: The Shadow system requires use of the Yaesu system, so it'll be a while before Shadow would be operational.
2) ARISS-Europe Board elections (Presenter: G. Bertels)
According to ARISS-Europe Terms of Reference a call for candidates was circulated March 2003.
Four candidatures were presented:
·
candidate chairman:
Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
UBA
· candidate technical director: Daniel Orban, ON4AOD AMSAT Belgium
·
counsellor 1: Joerg Hahn, DL3LUM DARC
·
counsellor 2: Christophe Mercier AMSAT-France
The candidates were elected unopposed.
According to the ARISS-Europe Terms of Reference, the newly elected board takes office the 1st of October 2003.
The term of the Board members is two years.
E-mail adresses of the Board members
·
Chairman: Gaston Bertels, ON4WF gaston.bertels@skynet.be
· Technical director: Daniel Orban, ON4AOD
danny.orban@orbanmicrowave.com
·
Counsellor 1: Joerg Hahn, DL3LUM jh.hahn@gmx.net
·
Counsellor 2: Christophe Mercier c.avmdti@free.fr
3) Next ARISS
International face-to-face meetings (Presenter: G. Bertels)
Gaston has received an invitation from ESTEC to host the next ARISS-I meeting in ESTEC. Tentative dates are for the last weekend in March
4) Operations
(Presenter: F. Bauer)
Exp. 7 – finished last school contact on Sept. 20, a school in Japan
– there were many crew picks making scheduling difficult, along with summer break for US schools
– made contacts in Europe
– are looking to “catch up” US schools, working with international members to see if this is acceptable to them
Exp. 8 – fewer crew picks, hope to get to 2 contacts to week
5) RAC Committee (Presenter: K. Pulfer)
Have unanimous consent for associate memberships, will work to finalize approval and implement.
6) Phase 2
hardware status (Presenters: F. Bauer and S. Samburov)
Kenwood D700, antenna switches, table, and power equipment Phase 2 hardware is onboard ISS at this time.
Testing: NASA has asked us to limit trip to 4 people, so will have to spit trip into 2 phases, one in November, one in January/February 2004 timeframe. Will probably delay SSTV and Yaesu efforts.
Objectives of trip:
Final testing of Phase I hardware (end to end with antennas)
Phase 2 hardware certification testing (to allow use onboard, since is yellow-tagged right now) and finalize Yaesu use SSTV hardware and software
Training discussions
7) Packet operations status (Presenters: L. McFadin and S.
Samburov)
Definitely have a
problem, have verified that packet system and radios are being left on.
Are attempting a software reset since power cycling is not fixing the
problem.
8) SSTV/Spacecam status (Presenters: M. Mann and L.
McFadin)
Software is just about wrapped up. Miles is looking for more pictures,
640 x 480 pixels. Outgassing testing on hardware is awaiting government
funding at White Sands getting straightened out.
Respectfully submitted by Mark Steiner and Rosalie White, September 23, 2003