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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 356.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. DECEMBER 22, 2002
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-356.01
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.
Since I wrote the November Letter, a number of events have taken place which
have had an impact on AMSAT. Firstly at the end of November the TRW amateur
Radio Club in Los Angeles invited me to be the guest speaker at their awards
night. Very generously they paid all the expenses, and I was able to talk
about AMSAT and our new projects. One of my Power Point slides showed OSCAR
4 which was build at TRW in 1965. Several members of the Team that built
that satellite were present at the awards night meeting.
Earlier this month the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) team held one of their semi-annual meetings at Goddard Space Flight
Center (GFSC) near Washington D.C. with International Delegates from the US,
Canada, Japan, Europe and Russia. The objective of this meeting was to
review the progress being made with new Amateur Programs, to try and solve
any problems, to co-ordinate future programs, and to see that they meet the
IARU amateur requirements.
On this occasion the elections for ARISS officers took place and the results
were as follows, Chairman - Frank Bauer KA3HDO, Vice Chairman Gaston
Bertels ON4WF, Secretary Rosalie White WA1STO. Congratulations to all
three. The three day meeting was considered a success and approval was
given to Bob Bruninga to incorporate an APRS transceiver into a US Navy
solar cell experiment which is to be launched in the middle of next year
(2003)
and which will be attached to ISS for one year. Details of Bob's PCSat2 may
be found elsewhere on the web.
For those of you who wish to follow the events of ISS closely, you can
subscribe to Sarex@amsat.org. This is easily done by sending a one line
message to Majordomo @amsat org the one line being subscribe
sarex@amsat.org
During the Christmas Shopping rush, it occurred to me that many of us often
wish we were buying ourselves a suitable present! well now is your chance
to do that and show that you are an AMSAT supporter - Why not become a
donor to the AMSAT President's club? - get the Lapel pin and put it on your
club Jacket - they sure look good at a club meeting! - The President's Club
donor form is now available on the AMSAT web page.
Once more may I wish a Happy Holiday to everyone
73,
Robin Haighton VE3FRH
President AMSAT-NA
[ANS thanks Robin, VE3FRH, for the above information]
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