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Subj: AMSAT follows up with FCC on orbital debris rule
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 002.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
January 2, 2005
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-002.01
Dr. Perry Klein, W3PK, AMSAT Vice President, Government Liason reports
that AMSAT has filed a "reply to oppositions" as part of the on-going
process in the petition for reconsideration on the FCC's IB docket
02-54, Mitigation of Orbital Debris.
Six parties filed comments in response to the Petition, but it should be
noted that none of them actually opposed the Petition. Those filing
comments represeted both individuals as well as organizations such as
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
(Cal Poly) and Project OSCAR.
Even though all those filing comments supported AMSAT's petition for
reconsideration, AMSAT made use of this procedural opportunity to
address issues raised in those comments as well as reinforce AMSAT's
original position. AMSAT believes that the revised 97.207(g) as adopted
would cause irreparable harm to those responsible for building and
funding the many satellite projects currently in design and construction
stages which are intended to carry amateur space stations.
The full text of all of AMSAT's filings with the FCC can be found at
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/AboutAmsat/filings/
Perry also notes that Ray Soifer, W2RS was instrumental in both the
research and composition of this filing with the FCC.
[ANS thanks Perry, W3PK for the above information]
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