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March 2020 NABRC Monthly Newsletter

North Augusta Belvedere Radio Club
 

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March Meeting

WHEN: Monday, March 9, 2020
6:30 PM - Fellowship
7:00 PM - Meeting

WHERE: North Augusta Public Service Station #2
Five Notch Road
North Augusta, SC
TALK-IN: 146.730 Mhz (-)

Program: Mike Newland, NC8N, will give a presentation on the 3905 Century Club.
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Upcoming Events

March 12, 2020 - 7:00 PM - VE Testing Session - Located at Aiken SDA Church located at 1714 Columbia Hwy N. in Aiken, SC. Visit https://k4nab.org/events/event/nabrc-ve-testing/ for more information.
March 16, 2020 - 6:00 PM - Aiken County ARES at Aiken Regional Medical Center in the Cafeteria.
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International Space Station Resupply Mission to Carry New ARISS Ham Radio Gear

The scheduled March 7 (UTC) SpaceX CRS-20 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will include the initial Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Interoperable Radio System (IORS) flight unit, which is listed as a primary payload. The IORS is the foundation of the ARISS next-generation amateur radio system on the space station. Once at the space station, the IORS will be stowed for later installation.
The ARISS hardware team built four flight units, and the first will be installed in the ISS Columbus module. A second flight unit expected to be launched on a later 2020 cargo flight will be installed in the Russian Service Module. NASA contracts with SpaceX to handle ISS resupply missions.
The IORS represents the first major upgrade of on-station ARISS equipment. The package will include a higher-power radio, an enhanced voice repeater, and updated digital packet radio (APRS) and slow-scan television (SSTV) capabilities for both the US and Russian space station segments. The IORS consists of a custom-modified JVCKenwood TM-D710GA transceiver, an AMSAT-developed multi-voltage power supply, and interconnecting cables.
The ARISS hardware team remains busy on IORS development and final certification. While the initial unit has been certified for launch and stowage on ISS, the team is still deep into the final certification of the IORS for flight operations, and construction of a second flight unit is in progress.
ARISS will mark 20 years of continuous amateur radio operation on the space station in November.
ARRL Letter from March 4, 2020.
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