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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 249.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 21, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS BID:
$ANS-249.02
The 22nd Annual AMSAT Symposium and Annual Meeting, to be held on
October 8-10, 2004, is fast approaching. The symposium committee
has an outstanding venue in store for you. You have a few short
days to make your reservations to the meeting at the lower prices.
After September 8, the registration costs for the Symposium jumps
from $35 to $40. If you haven't done this or made your
reservation at the Hotel, please do so immediately.
Here are some of the highlights and latest information that we
have in store for you. More will be coming soon. Check the AMSAT
web site often for the latest details. The web site is located
at:
http://www.amsat.org/
- Venue
This year's meeting will be held in Arlington, Virginia. The
beauty of this location is that it is directly above Crystal City,
where there are hundreds of shops (including radio shack), fast
food restaurants, and the Washington Metro system. Metro can take
you to the many free attractions in the area.
- ARISS Meeting
This years symposium will be held in conjunction with the Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) international
delegates meeting. The ARISS meetings will be held October 10-13.
You are welcome to attend any or all of the ARISS meetings. In
addition, many of the ARISS team members and international
delegates will be attending and presenting at the AMSAT Symposium.
- Banquet Speaker
We are pleased to announce that our guest speaker at the banquet
will be astronaut Carl Walz. Carl has flown in space 4 times. Two
of these missions were Shuttle/SAREX flights. His most recent
trip to space was as an Expedition 4 crew member on the ISS.
During his stay, Carl and Valery Korzun installed and deployed one
of the four ARISS antennas on the ISS during an EVA spacewalk.
Carl will discuss his ISS expedition as well as NASA's new Journey
to the Moon, Mars & beyond. For more information on Carl Walz,
see:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/walz.html
- Prize Drawing
The prizes are starting to roll in. To date, we have an ICOM 910H
as one of the grand prizes as well as an SDR-1000/RO, Software
Defined Receiver board set from FlexRadio Systems.
- Sunday Afternoon Group Tour
The Sunday tour will be to the new hangar facility Smithsonian Air
& Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center, where you can see hundreds of
aircraft and spacecraft including the Space Shuttle Enterprise,
the world's fastest plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, the Concorde and
hundreds of historic airplanes. For more information, see:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/
- Symposium Papers
The proceeding papers are now in printing. I am proud to say that
we have over 30 papers in this year's proceedings. This is a
significant boost in papers from previous years. As such, we will
have some very interesting presentations at the symposium. Some of
the presentations in store for you include the latest on Echo and
ARISS, the plans for Eagle and P3E, as well as presentations on
some of the university-built satellites.
We will also have some great poster/displays. While the
poster/displays are still a work in progress, we expect there to
be a very interesting Cubesat display that will be set up by
Cliff, K7RR.
- Final Note
We will have more exciting things to announce in the near future.
In the meantime, please get your registration forms in ASAP so we
know who will be attending. And frequently visit the symposium
web page at the AMSAT web site:
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/symposium/
We look forward to seeing all of you at the Symposium this
October.
[ANS thanks AMSAT Symposium Committee Co-Chairs Frank Bauer,
KA3HDO and Janet Bauer for the above info]
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