Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Dec 01 2022 18:54:18 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2353 for Friday, December 2nd, 2022 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2353, with a release date of Friday, December 2nd, 2022, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. A troubled orbit detours a project to put amateur radio on the moon. It's almost time for the 12 Days of Christmas Special Event - and a happy ending for the producer of a ham radio documentary. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2353, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** ORBIT TROUBLES FOR AMATEUR RADIO MOON LANDER STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We begin this week in space, where a troubled orbit has detoured a Japanese amateur radio project that was heralded as the world's smallest moon lander. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, brings us that report. JASON: OMOTENASHI, developed by the JAXA Ham Radio Club in Japan, carried the promise of putting amateur radio on the moon's surface when it launched on November 16th from Kennedy Space Center in the US. Now the chance to transmit a beacon in the amateur radio 70cm band from a lunar QTH has been put into question. The CubeSat was a secondary payload aboard NASA's Artemis 1 mission. In English translation from Japanese, the ham radio club's website for JAXA, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency, reports that orbital errors have resulted in an unstable radio signal for its communications. The website also reports that the solar cells face away from the sun, making it problematic to charge OMOTENASHI's batteries. Having missed the chance for a moon landing, organisers are regrouping. The website reports that data from OMOTENASHI will be analysed to unearth a possible cause of what happened. The report said that the team believed that the axis of rotation is stable and that the spacecraft will get sunlight when the direction of the sun changes. They expect that will happen next March. This is Jason Daniels, VK2LAW. (JAXA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB) ** HOMEBREW CUBESATS ARE A 'FIRST' FOR LAUNCH IN INDIA STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Indian radio amateurs and space enthusiasts had a proud moment when a rocket launch for an ocean-monitoring satellite had a pair of homegrown amateur radio CubeSats along for the ride. Here's Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, with details. JIM: Members of the Star Fleet Amateur Radio Club, National Institute for Amateur Radio, Indian Institute of Hams, West Bengal Radio Club and the Indian Academy of Communication and Disaster Management were among the hundreds of amateurs across India watching eagerly on Saturday, November 26th as an Indian Space Research Organisation mission lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Although the primary payload was an ocean observation satellite, the varied secondary payload also included two satellites that Indian news media were praising as the nation's first homegrown amateur satellites to be launched aboard an Indian space vehicle. The nanosatellites had been built in Hyderabad (Hy-Dra-Bod) by Druva Space, founded by four radio amateurs 10 years ago. The CubeSats have a combined mass of 1.45 kilograms and each is no larger than 10 by 10 by 5 centimeters. Hams will be able to use their store-and-forward messaging system. Dhruva's CEO Sanjay Nekkanti AB3OE / VU3ISS told one news outlet that this mission was extremely important to those who designed and built the satellites and said the hams will be testing them out following their deployment into low earth orbit. Sanjay said [quote] "This is a way for us to give back to the ecosystem." [endquote] He said he hoped the mission would also encourage more people to get involved in amateur radio and the sciences. This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. (THE PRINT, REPUBLIC WORLD, NASA SPACEFLIGHT.COM) ** SWITZERLAND PREPARES FOR SHUTDOWN OF FM RADIO STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Just as the nature and the technology of amateur radio keeps evolving so too is the landscape changing for broadcast FM. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that story. JEREMY: Switzerland is preparing for the shutdown of its FM radio services as Swiss listeners join the ranks of those in Norway and in the UK who now tune into DAB+ The nation's switchover from FM/analogue to DAB+/digital radio was the subject of discussion at the recent WorldDAB Summit, a digital radio industry forum held in London in early November. Norway's P4 radio led the charge in that nation more than five years ago, embracing the multiple channels from one transmitter, a lower cost way to keep station programming on the air. Switzerland's move comes just as the broadcast licences for the nation's radio stations expire at the end of 2024. Broadcasters see the switch as a way to save money while increasing the reach and the variety of the programme content. There will be no simulcasting on FM and digital. In a report in Radio World magazine, Swiss broadcaster Nicola Bomio said he was worried that the change would cost the stations listenership. Others said they wondered whether listeners living on the border with France would simply tune in to stations there. This is Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (RADIO WORLD MAGAZINE) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .