­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
September 17, 2024 – 1100 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Shizuo Endo
Gianpietro Ferrario
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic 
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Michel Nawrocki
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Meeting September 17, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
               Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
               Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.  He said that there are many school contacts going on these days around the world. Thank you!!  
 
 1) Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
Martha sent out the minutes of the August meeting prior to today’s meeting.Glenn made a motion to accept the minutes.Ciaran seconded that motion which was accepted without dissent.The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting on the ARISS-I website.
 
 2) HamTV Operations – Kenneth Ransom and Randy Berger
Kenneth said that there are no changes to report at this time except that he met with Mark Magno, graphic illustrator, who is working on the placement of the HamTV equipment to ensure it will fit with another payload called Lidal in the space station.
 
 
 3) ARISS-International Delegates  Face to Face Meeting 2025 – Oliver Amend and Glenn MacDonell
 
Glenn said that the meeting is scheduled to run from Monday, April 7, through Wednesday, April 9 next year.  There are no changes on hotels since the last ARISS Face to Face meeting in Canada. 

Oliver went over the proposed schedule that is based on the schedule of previous Face to Face meetings:  education and development on Tuesday and Operations on Wednesday.  There will be a discussion of changing the meaning of the ARISS abbreviation.  Oliver will send a draft of this schedule to Glenn for planning purposes.  He also said that he needs the Regional and Committee reports. 
  
 4) Axiom-4 Update – Frank Bauer 
Axiom-4 will be flown on Space-X, probably in the first quarter of next year.  Three of the four crew members have an Amateur Radio license. 
In Europe, there are some legal concerns that are being worked. These concerns  are about privacy information, including the use of some images of youth, particularly in Poland.

5) Transition Plan from Kenneth to Ana – Kenneth Ransom                  
Kenneth will retire from Barrios next April.  Ana Guzman, Kenneth’s backup, will become the lead after Kenneth’s retirement. This gives Ana  time to learn about all the things that Kenneth does.  The plan is for Kenneth to step back in February and let Ana take over.  Kenneth will stay in the background and cover for Ana when she attends the ARISS International meeting.   Once retired, Kenneth plans to retire from obligations for about 6 months and then come back as an ARISS volunteer. 
Frank said that Kenneth has been instrumental in ARISS success.

Any Other Business
-Frank:   We celebrated Gaston Bertel’s 97th birthday a couple of days ago.  We want to recognize Gaston.  He was doing ARISS things before there was an ARISS.  He did a contact during the STS-45 Space Shuttle mission in 1992.  He led the development of the L band and S band antennas on the Columbus module.   The officers want to make a proclamation of Gaston as ARISS Elder Statesman.  Rosalie said that he led the team and did so many things for ARISS.  Graham said “I’m delighted with this idea.”

  Region votes on this proclamation:  Glenn, speaking for Canada:  Yes.  Shizuo, speaking .for Japan:  Yes.  Ciaran, Bertus, and Oliver, speaking for Europe:  Yes   Dave T. and Rosalie, speaking for the United States: Yes.  The vote supporting this proclamation is unanimous.

Dave Taylor:  Today is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s birthday, which is probably why Sergey is not with us today.
 
Frank thanked everyone for participating in today’s meeting.
 
Next Meeting:   October 15, 2024

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
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August 20, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Shizuo Endo
Gianpietro Ferrario
Micol Ivancic 
Kiego Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Michel Nawrocki
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Alexandra Tussing
 
Meeting August 20, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
               Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
               Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.  He asked attendees to recruit folks who might make great additions to our team.  
 
1.  Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
Martha sent out the minutes of the July meeting prior to today’s meeting.Rosalie made a motion to accept the minutes.Glenn seconded that motion which was accepted without dissent.The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting on the ARISS-I website.
 
2. HamTV Operations – Kenneth Ransom and Randy Berger
Kenneth said that there are no changes to report at this time.He is waiting for the topology folks to finish their task.He added that the topology teams in the US and Europe have changed and the new CAD models didn’t get to the new guys.Randy said work continues on the HDMI adaptor which will be sent to the space station to allow HamTV to connect to the newer ISS cameras as the older ones are being phased out.
 
 
3. ARISS-International Delegates  Face to Face Meeting 2025 – Oliver Amend
Glenn has confirmed that the Canadian Space Agency has agreed to host this meeting during the first or second week of April next year.  No one said that they had a conflict with either week.  Given that, Oliver proposed the F2F meeting be held from April 7 to April 10.   Sergey said he would like to attend this meeting and see everyone again.  He will have to see if can get a visa in time to attend. 
By the end of the year, the officers will be asking for end of year reports.  If you have agenda items to be included for discussion during this meeting, please get them to the officers, too. 
“Thank you, Glenn, for taking the lead on this,” Frank said.

4. SSTV Updates – Sergey Samburov 
There is a lot of interest in SSTV among the ham, education, and youth communities.
Sergey reported that a cargo vehicle docked at the ISS last Saturday.The SSTV hardware is part of that cargo.There are tentative plans to begin to start integration of the SSTV system in September but there are many other things going on aboard the ISS that month including a crew rotation and cargo vehicles arriving/departing.Sergey asked that if anyone has images for possible use, please let him know.Frank reminded him that SSTV images commemorating events over 40 years of amateur radio on Human Spaceflight missions are available.

AOB  (Any Other Business) 

• Frank:  The ISS is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2030 but we hope to continue our projects on commercial space stations.  Given that, we need to take the widely known and respected name “ARISS” and adjust what those letters represent (branding) as we switch to private space stations.   This is likely to be an Agenda item for next year’s Face to Face meeting.  In an e-mail, Frank suggested Amateur Radio-International on Space Stations. Lou suggested we come up with a list of things we would wish the new space stations could support for us like direct contacts to ground and telephone / video contacts.  “What would we like these space stations to do?”    

The commercial world is different now.Some are international, some are national. The “business model” is different too. This includes who will share the cost of these amateur radio STEM education operations. The Space Agencies provide significant “In-Kind” funding (absorbed costs) and ARISS provides significant “In-Kind” support via volunteers.What will our real dollar (Euro, etc) costs be to perform these operations on these space stations?Will we incur cost to launch and use volume and power on these vehicles? We want to prepare ourselves for this different future.
 
-Randy reported that ARISS had four summer interns this year.They built four pico tuners for HamTV.They presented their work at NASA Goddard with SCaN leaders attending.Randy said he would like to thank the UK team for their help with this.
 
[Frank had to leave this meeting.Oliver took over as presider.]
 
-Oliver reported that Frank, Tanya, Randy and Kelly Cammarrano represented ARISS at the recent ISS R&D meeting.Representatives from space agencies and developers were present and this team was there to talk to these folks about ARISS.It is good to let these folks know the work we do with education.VAST wants to know if we can do a contact for them during World Space Week 2025.

 
Oliver thanked everyone for participating in today’s meeting.
Next Meeting:   September 17, 2024

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
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July 16, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Ana Guzman
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic 
Kiego Komuro
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Martha Muir
Michel Nawrocki
Ken Nichols
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
 
Meeting July 16, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
               Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
               Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and said that today marks the 55th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11!
 
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir

Martha sent out the minutes of the June meeting prior to today’s meeting.Bertus made a motion to accept the June minutes.Rosalie seconded that motion which was accepted without dissent.The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting on the ARISS-I website.
 
2. HamTV Operations – Kenneth Ransom

Kenneth said that there is another payload installed in the place where the HamTV unit is supposed to go on the ISS.We are waiting for NASA to redo the topology for both payloads.It will be at least three months for the HamTV unit to be back in place.
 
3.  Ham Radio -2024 – Oliver Amend
 
Oliver reported that this was the 46th Ham Radio event and is the most important ham radio exhibition in Europe.There were 11.300 attendees this year including 93 teachers who attended a teachers’ workshop on Friday.There were 4 presentations on ARISS throughout the exhibition.Stefan, Oliver, and Frank spent time in the ARISS booth.Next year’s theme is likely to be ’75 years of DARC.’
 
4. ARISS-I Delegates Face to Face Meeting 2025 – Oliver Amend and Frank Bauer

Face to Face meeting in 2025:where do we want to have it?At last month’s ARISS-Imeeting, Glenn suggested that ARISS-Canada could host it.No one else offered a different location.Glenn reported that since last month’s meeting he has found out that the Canadian Space Agency has agreed to host us.Now we need to figure out when it will be.Perhaps in April?Block off April 12.Delegates:please check your calendar for go/no go dates prior to next month’s meeting.Glenn will check in to the visa requirements for Sergey.

5.   ARISS Engineering Team Proposal – Randy Berger and Oliver Amend

Oliver presented the ARISS TES Committee Status Report. Topics to be discussed by this committee include ARISS-Pi, HDMI, and CAVIAR.Oliver wants to know who wants to join this committee.Randy and Oliver will be chairmen.Lou is in.Shizuo wants to know how often the committee will meet.Oliver replied ‘once per month at a time that works for all.’Shizuo will get back to Oliver about this.
 
AOB  (Any Other Business) 

• Bertus suggested that since SSTV will be out for a while, how about digital SSTV?  Jan P. knows about this.  Perhaps add him and this idea on the TES committee list.  Frank said that this would require multiple ground stations and control operators for long periods of time.    We don’t have the hardware to do this automatically yet.

 

• Kenneth reported that August 15 is the scheduled launch date for the SSTV system.

 

• Graham said that he has adjusted the Wiki site to say that the date of HamTV is TBD, not next month.

 
Next Meeting:  August 20, 2024

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
June 18, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Micol Ivancic 
Dave Jordan
Kiego Komuro
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:   Alexandra Tussing                 
 
 
Meeting June 18, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
               Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
               Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and said that there are many things going on in the ARISS community these days.  The Starliner will be launched soon, taking two astronauts to the ISS, including ARISS veteran Suni Williams.    Coming soon:  Ham Radio at Friedrichshafen.  Frank will be there.
 
1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir
Martha sent out the minutes of the March and May ARISS-I meetings prior to today’s meeting.Rosalie made a motion to accept the March minutes.Stefan seconded that motion which was accepted without dissent.Stefan made a motion to accept last month’s (May) minutes.Dave Taylor seconded that motion, which was accepted without dissent.Both minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson for posting on the ARISS-I website.
 
2. HamTV Operations Operations – Kenneth Ransom
Kenneth said that no progress has been made with HamTV.In fact, there is another payload presently occupying the space where HamTV is supposed to go.Kenneth is monitoring this.
 
3. ARISS-I International Delegates Meeting – Frank Bauer and Oliver Amend
Frank said that we need to decide where we want to hold the next Face to Face meeting next year.Oliver concurred. Please let us know by July’s meeting.Suggesting a location does not mean that you are organizing this meeting.
Glenn asked if people would be interested in meeting in Canada again. The Canadian Space Agency is involved in the Gateway program; it would be great to get updates.Glenn was asked to investigate the possibility of holding the next meeting near the Canadian Space Agency and send the info to the ARISS-I officers.
 
4. SSTV Update – Sergey Samburov
Sergey said that it is a large scale operation to get the new SSTV system on the ISS.Certain tests need to be performed.Those tests should start on July 1.Alexander Grebenkin, a Russian cosmonaut, should be installing the system on the ISS in September.The crew is very busy and a new crew is scheduled to arrive in September.We hope to get the system operational soon.
Sergey was asked to let us know when we can put information about this on social media and he stated we should wait until it is ready for launch.
Frank thanked Sergey for his work on this since ISS SSTV downlinks are very popular with students and hams alike.He thanked Sergey for working with students at the Southwestern State University in Kursk to develop both the software and hardware.
 
AOB  (Any Other Business) 
               Frank reported that Barbara Adde from SCAN will be retiring from NASA at the end of the month.  Frank also reported that the SCAN office is reorganizing with a new head, Kevin Coggins.  SCAN provides part of the funding to sustain ARISS operations.  Kevin is a ham and is interested in what we do with education and providing back up communications.  He might be more involved in ARISS opportunities, including the ARISS contact at the upcoming IAU conference in August in South Africa .   Ken Bowersox, an ARISS astronaut alumnus, is Kevin’s supervisor. 
               Randy said he would like to thank the ARISS-UK folks for their efforts to support the HamTV ground station development tutorial website.  Randy has two summer interns developing ground stations in the USA using hardware that the UK team have shipped to the US for this purpose. 
               Frank thanked Alexandra for her interpreting.  He also thanked everyone for attending today’s meeting.
Next Meeting:  July 16, 2024
  Lou pointed out that this will be the 55th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11.  
 

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
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  May 21, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Emanuele D’Andria
Stefan Dombrowski
Shizuo Endo
Micol Ivancic 
Kiego Komuro
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Martha Muir
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Anya Ezhevskaya                 
 
 
Meeting May 21, 2024
  
Roll Call— Martha Muir W4MSA
            Martha recorded the participants in today’s meeting by recording the names on the GoToMeeting screen.
 
Welcome – Frank Bauer
            Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and said he just returned from Hamvention, which is the largest hamfest in the US.  There were a number of international groups there including RSGB, DARC, and JARL.  Folks who came by our booth were excited at all the things the ARISS international team is doing.  Rosalie added that people appreciate getting HAM TV back on the ISS and are looking forward to more SSTV events.
 

1.  Call for Acceptance of Minutes – Frank Bauer and Martha Muir

Martha sent out the minutes of the April ARISS-I meeting prior to today’s meeting.Frank made
 a motion to accept the minutes and Oliver seconded that motion.  The motion was accepted without dissent. They will be sent to Carol to be posted on the ARISS website.
 
2. HamTV Operations Update – Kenneth Ransom
Kenneth said that the HamTV unit was taken back to the ISS on SpaceX 30. He estimates
 that July represents the earliest chance for operations as it won’t be probably installed until then.  It should work like it did the last time it was operational on the ISS.  Randy is working on developing a series of ground stations in the USA for HamTV.  Randy said that Lou McFadin and Kerry Banke will be working with some summer interns on this.  Dave Taylor and Randy said that the webpage that Graham and other UK members of the BATC developed for HamTV is very good and should be posted somewhere for more folks to access.  Frank added that there were many requests for this at  Hamvention; he suggests that the URL be sent to Carol for posting on the ARISS website.
Link: https://wiki.batc.org.uk/HAMTV_from_the_ISS
 
3. Axiom 4 Status –  Frank Bauer
Frank said that Axiom 4 is scheduled to launch in November and may be bumped to early next year.At least one crew member wants to use our equipment.Oliver added that Polish astronaut Slawosz Uznanski is actively pursuing his ham radio license in Poland.
 
4.  CAVIAR – Randy Berger
CAVIAR stands for Communications, Audio, Video and Imaging using Amateur Radio. This was initially developed for lunar gateway missions but can be used on lunar, ISS, and Gateway projects.It is a hexagonal shaped device that originally had 3 SDRs that now has been reduced to just one plus RF switches.It is set for 5 GHz receive and 10 GHz transmit.It will have SSTV and telemetry capabilities that can be accessed at ground stations.Randy suggests we set up a committee to select what projects to use it with soon.Oliver will set this meeting up.

5. Next Year’s International Delegates’ Meeting and ARISS-I:  25 years of Operations! – Every Region
Frank said that next year will mark 25 years of continuous operation of ARISS.    Where do we want to have our next International Delegated meeting?  Who wants to host it?  It would be nice to hold it near a space agency but it doesn’t have to be.  Rosalie said that in the past, it has been held in conjunction with an AMSAT meeting.  We are looking something in the Spring or Fall of 2025. 

Oliver said there are two key things for the host to secure:  hotels for the attendees and a meeting space.  Others can help with the other details.

Frank said this will be on the Agenda for coming meetings until it gets settled.  It is important for us to get together.

AOB  (Any Other Business) 
            Frank thanked Anya for her interpretation.  He thanked everyone for attending today’s meeting.
Next Meeting:  June 18, 2024
 
Respectfully submitted, Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary

­Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
  April 16, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants
 
Oliver Amend
Tanya Anderson
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Stefan Dombrowski
Darin Cowan
Emanuele D’Andria
Shizuo Endo
Micol Ivancic 
Dave Jordan
Kiego Komuro
Glenn MacDonell
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Ken Nichols
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Graham Shirville
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
 
Meeting Agenda
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer KA3HDO
 
            Frank welcomed everyone and shared that the total solar eclipse last week was spectacular!  He and Kenneth are in Huntsville, Alabama for a POIG meeting.
The minutes for March’s meeting as well as for the Face-to-Face meeting in February are not available yet.  There will be two sets of minutes for review next month.   

1.  Status of HamTV Operations Update – Frank Bauer and Kenneth Ransom

Kenneth reported that there was a successful launch of SpaceX 30 on March 21, 2024. The HamTV unit is now on the ISS!   Oliver asked when they expect the system to be operational again.  Summer or fall was the reply.
 
2.    40th Anniversary and ARISS International Meeting Follow-on Discussions – Frank Bauer
            Frank said that there are many after-event activities going on about those great meetings including merging the minutes with the presentations. 
             Frank said he let the Gateway Program know about the AMSAT-Italia proposal and the possibility of pass throughs.  He reminded everyone that we as ARISS need to speak with one voice and we need to work as one team.  He asks all to not go directly to a contractor for a space agency without getting permission from the governing program to do so. Otherwise, we risk being totally shut out of the program.  Programs have a design baseline and we need to work within their “study path” or get selected through official payload proposal solicitations.  Shizuo said that there needs to be some discussion and consensus about the Italian plans before we go further.  Frank agreed and said ARISS needs to reach a consensus on a plan, including frequencies, before ARISS can fully endorse the proposal.  We also need word from the Gateway program that is it OK to proceed.  This was an action taken by the officers at the Face to Face meeting. 
Emanuele added that he doesn’t want to miss this opportunity for antenna feedthroughs on Gateway.  Subsequent discussions included the importance of talking with TASI in an official way.  Frank requested that while we wait for comments back from Gateway, we should commission an internal sub-committee to discuss interfaces, frequency plan and antenna designs.  That way we will have the data ready for I-HAB. This subcommittee should include members of AMSAT-Italia and the ARISS engineering team. 
 
AOB  (Any other business)

• Oliver:  The 2025 Delegates meeting – anyone volunteering to organize and host it?  Do we need to have a meeting?  We will discuss this at the next meeting.  Your homework is to think about this. 
• Randy reiterated that with the June deadline approaching on the interface needs from  I-HAB that we need the subcommittee meeting ASAP. 

 
Respectfully submitted, Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary

Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
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  March 19, 2024 – 1200 UTC
  
Participants
 Oliver Amend
Frank Bauer
Randy Berger
Emanuelle D’Andria
Stefan Dombrowski
Will Marchant
Glenn MacDonell
Lou McFadin
Martha Muir
Kenneth Ransom
Sergey Samburov
Diana Schuler
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
 
 Interpreter:  Irina Yaskova
 
Meeting Agenda
 
Roll Call—Martha Muir, W4MSA
  
Welcome—Frank Bauer KA3HDO
 
              Frank welcomed everyone to today’s meeting and saying that it was great to see so many of you at the Face to Face meeting and the 40th Anniversary celebration. 
              Ham TV is scheduled to go up to the ISS by the end of this week!
 

1. Call for Acceptance of Minutes—Frank Bauer KA3HDO and Martha Muir W4MSA 

The minutes for January’s meeting were sent out by Martha to the members via email prior to today’s meeting.  Stefan made a motion to accept the minutes.  Glenn seconded that motion.  The motion passed without dissent.  The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS website.
 
              Martha has given Frank and Oliver the typed minutes of the Face to Face meeting but Frank wants to annotate the minutes with the presentations and other files to that before the minutes are sent out to everyone.  Some presentation files are still outstanding from some of the meeting attendees.  Please send them to Frank directly.  Ciaran asked if folks can get them before the next meeting.  Frank replied that we need to get all the presentations first.
 
 2. Review of Face to Face meeting and the 40th Anniversary Celebration – Frank and Oliver
              Frank said that he can sum up his feeling about the whole event with a simple 3 letter word:  WOW! 
We missed those who couldn’t attend.  The activity was extremely big and we are now trying to get all the materials from it in so they can place together as final archival documentation.  Please get your presentations and photos to Frank as soon as possible.  All major ARISS-I presentations are on the Dropbox now.  Stefan asked if we can share the documents shared in the Dropbox.  Frank replied saying his answer has two parts.  ‘In my opinion, yes, though some documents may be confidential, particularly those associated with the AMSAT Italia Proposal to Gateway.  We need to ask AMSAT Italia if they are okay with sharing them. Otherwise, we need to make these files private.
Oliver gave his opinion on this.  There were two sessions:  the Face to Face meeting and the 40th Anniversary Celebration.   The F2F forum is open to those that participated – for the most part.  The Italian proposal is not ARISS.  It belongs to AMSAT Italia.  ARISS can use it but not publish it.  As far as photos are concerned there is nothing there to hide.  There were signs posted at the venue indicating that photos were being taken that may be made public. 
Given that, Will Marchant said keep proprietary rights to documents only.  Frank summed things up by saying that the Italian proposal is from AMSAT-Italy not ARISS-I.  We cannot make proprietary decisions for them.  Oliver said that we (ARISS-I) need to ask them (AMSAT-Italy) if we can publish their information. 
Stefan asked ‘how long will things be available in the Dropbox?’  Answer:  All materials from the ARISS-I meeting are archived permanently on Dropbox. 
 
3. HamTV update – Randy Berger
Randy started by saying that it was great to see everyone at the Face to Face and 40th anniversary events. 
Randy said that Thursday, March 21, SpaceX 30 is scheduled to launch with the HamTV unit onboard. ‘We are working on the documentation and updating the webpage to provide illustrative examples of HamTV ground stations.  Folks from the United Kingdom are helping with this.’  Please review and help edit this. 
 
4.  Lunar Amateur Radio Frequencies – Frank Bauer
This was brought up at the recent Face to Face meeting.  Frank said he was able to pull out the official frequency allocations.  He had a lengthy talk with Cathy Sham, Lunar and Mars spectrum lead from the Space Frequency Coordination Group (SFCG).  The frequencies to be used from the Earth to the moon are not the same as the frequencies from the moon to the Earth.  Ham radio teams developing lunar communications systems need to be aware of the restrictions in place in the Shield Zone of the Moon (SZM).  SZM restrictions were put in place by the ITU and the SFCG so as to not to affect radio astronomy observations on the far side of the moon.  The lunar Gateway resides on the far side of the moon. 
       Emanuelle said confirmed that frequencies from the Earth to the moon are not a problem.  He has questions about frequencies to be used from the moon to the Earth.  Glenn added that a lot of work was done on these frequency allocations by the ITU and the SFCG with a document that was published last June.    
 
Any Other Business
Stefan asked Sergey if anything is planned for the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight on April 12?  Jan said there is good info on this in the chat.
Actions for delegates: 
-Randy said he is looking for comments about HamTV ground stations. 
-Frank said get the lunar frequency document, read it, and send in your comments.  There may be another meeting on this.  He also queried Emanuelle about whether there were plans to have an antenna interface meeting to develop the interface documentation. He reminded all that during the ARISS-I meeting, it was requested that this information needed to be supplied by June.  
-Oliver asked ‘who will be in charge of the next (2025) International Delegates meeting?  Let the ARISS-I officers know of any suggestions you have on this.
 
Frank thanked Irina for her interpretations today. 
The next ARISS-I monthly meeting will be on April 16, 2024.   
 
Respectfully submitted, Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary

Minutes of ARISS International Monthly Meeting
Go To Meeting/Teleconference
January 16, 2024 – 1200 UTC
 
Participants 
Frank Bauer
Tanya Anderson
Randy Berger
Armand Budzianowski
Stefan Dombrowski
Darin Cowan
Bertus Husken
Micol Ivancic 
Dave Jordan
Kiego Komuro
Will Marchant
Lou McFadin
Ciaran Morgan
Martha Muir
Eric Oosterbaan
Jan Poppeliers
Kenneth Ransom
Jim Reed
Sergey Samburov
Graham Shirville
Diana Schuler
Dave Taylor
Rosalie White
Satoshi Yasuda
 
Interpreter:  Oxana Giann

 

Meeting Agenda

 
Roll Call—Martha Muir, W4MSA
 
Martha took attendance by recording the names shown on the Go To Meeting screen. 
 
 
Welcome—Frank Bauer KA3HDO
 
            Happy New Year said Frank as he welcomed everyone to today’s meeting.  We had a spectacular 2023 with many ARISS members helping schools make contacts, he said.
 
1.      Call for Acceptance of Minutes--Frank Bauer KA3HDO and Martha Muir W4MSA 
The minutes for November’s and December’s meetings were sent out by Martha to the members via email prior to today’s meeting.  The December minutes was discussed first.  Darin made a motion to accept those minutes.  Stefan seconded that motion.  The motion passed without dissent.
The minutes for November’s meeting were then presented.  Rosalie made a motion to accept them.  Ciaran seconded that motion which was adopted without dissent.
The minutes will be sent to Carol Jackson to be posted on the ARISS website.
 
2.      Update on the 40th Anniversary Celebration
            Frank said that lots of folks are signing up for the 40th Anniversary Celebration.  40 folks are coming to the delegates meeting.  At least 4 astronauts are coming:  Tony England  (first to use SSTV in space), Ken Cameron (part of an all ham crew on space shuttle), Richard Garriott (1st second generation astronaut in the U.S. to use ham radio in space), and Bill MacArthur (MIR, ARISS, SuitSat).  Other astronauts are being invited.  Mike Kincaid, head of NASA’s STEM education department, is also coming.
            Folks coming to the conference need to get their info to Frank by 1200 UTC tomorrow so that NASA security can clear them.  There are a lot of launches going on at KSC these days.  There is a good chance we will get to see at least one while we are there.   
            If you haven’t made your hotel reservations yet, be aware that the ability to get the special rates expire on Friday. 
            Keep an eye on the 40th Anniversary website for up-to-date information.
            Frank said that he doesn’t recognize some of the names on the registration list.  He may be contacting some of the delegates for help figuring out who they are.
            Diana said that she sent SPARKI kit size and weight information form so that delegates can figure out what components of the kit they want to take home.  She will send that form out again.
3.     SSTV –  Will Marchant and Sergey Samburov
  Will said that ARISS-USA had an SSTV event last month.  It ran from December 27 to December 30.  Six stations send out the images and about 500 people posted their images on the ARISS SSTV server.  The Polish team put out a very nice award. 
            Armand said that the Polish team handled requests for awards, most from North America though there were some from China!   Armand said he is ‘full of emotion’ from the comments received expressing thanks and from young people.  He thanked Micol for her work with Claudio on this.  He also expressed his thanks for everyone working together as a team on this. 
            Frank thanked Will and Armand on their team’s efforts and these great reports.  The team put this all together in a week.  There are plans to automate this in the future.  Thanks to you all.  Thanks to Micol and Jim Reed for their fantastic job with social media covering this event. 
            Sergey said that they are working on an onboard SSTV event.  They are also planning to deliver a new computer to the space station, hopefully by May.  Images as early as June, hopefully. 
            Eric asked Sergey if he could get any info on the new computer and hardware.  Sergey said he doesn’t have any documents on this.  Eric then asked if it will be possible to send an image from earth to the ISS and then have the ISS send it back down.  Sergey said he will check into that.  Frank thanked Sergey for this report and the new capabilities that may come with the new equipment.
 
4.      HamTV Update – Randy Berger
 
Randy stated that HamTV WILL be back on the ISS in 2024.  Kerry, Randy said it was delivered to bonded storage at NASA for eventual delivery to the SpaceX-30 rocket. 
       Frank said there are still some safety and engineering things that need to be done before final flight certification is achieved, but progress is being made. 
      Graham thanked the team for the update and asked if photos will be made available.  Frank answered yes, some will be made available.  Frank said he is excited to get this back onboard.  He will get slides on this in the Dropbox. 
  He thanked Randy and the team for getting this all done - both the team in the US and Italy, including Kaiser-Italia. 
Any Other Business – there was none.
Frank thanked everyone for attending today.  He thanked Oxana for her interpretations.
The next ARISS-I monthly meeting will be the Face to Face meeting at the Kennedy Space Center in February. 
 
Respectfully submitted, Martha Muir, ARISS-I Secretary

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