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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 117.01 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. April 27, 2003
To All Radio Amateurs
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Greetings to all AMSAT Members,
It is always a pleasure to write this monthly letter to you and to try and
keep you informed and updated on the various aspects of AMSAT-NA.
Firstly let me comment on the status of Echo, our satellite that we hope
will be launched later this year. Progress is good, and we hope to have the
satellite under test during the late spring or early summer. Final testing
prior to shipment will be carried out in our new facility at NASA's Goddard
flight Center. I said "new facility" but in fact it is the same facility
that we had many years ago when AMSAT first came into existence.
Your Executive Vice-president Rick Hambly and Astronaut Ron Parise worked
together to reacquire this building, close to the visitors center at Goddard
for AMSAT's use. Rick Hambly will be at the Dayton Hamvention as one of the
speakers at the AMSAT Forum, he will be giving a detailed update on ECHO.
Place Forum Room 1, Date Saturday May 17, Time 8.30 am.
The design concepts of the structure of Eagle have been completed and
limited work is continuing based on our available income for this project.
We have purchased the two Earth Sensors that were subject of a Financial
Challenge, issued at Fort Worth and have designed the Can-Buss internal
communication system for use in Eagle. The CAN-BUSS Boards will be first
flown on P3E by AMSAT-DL and various other organizations are looking at
the AMSAT-NA design to determine if it would meet their requirements. This
system will also be the subject of a paper at our Dayton Forum when Bdale
Garbee will be presenting a paper on the topic.
Gould Smith will present a Satellite Beginners paper at Dayton.
Remember Saturday May 17 in Forum Room 1, 8.30 AM.
Dayton is an excellent time to renew your membership, and this year in
addition to membership we will have some Premiums which are available to
donors. These include the AMSAT Journal CD-ROMs, Instant track (Y2K
compatible version) and a surprise premium to everyone who joins or renews
their membership.
Also, please remember to book a seat for the AMSAT dinner at the AMBER ROSE
restaurant on Friday evening. This is your event and I look forward to
meeting each one of you during that weekend. To book your seat in advance
let Martha at the Office know-(301-589-6062 or Martha@amsat.org) We do have
limited accommodation.
Although I am tempted to spend a lot of time at the Flea Market, I will
spend most of the weekend at the AMSAT booth - so do plan to meet me there!.
I am delighted to confirm the AMSAT ECHO-LINK conference system is now
operational. Once more Paul Williamson has made it happen; use Echo-link to
discuss satellites, orbits, and to have a round table discussion. Thank You
Paul.
Finally, AMSAT is about to hold our first Fund Raising of the Year, as we
usually do in May, and while I appreciate that "times are tough" so they are
also for the AMSAT building fund. We really do need to progress with Eagle
and to provide all the promises that I have put forward, such as (Mode B) -
your help is the main way to get there - some new ideas on fund raising will
appear in the May /June Journal - Please read the Apogee View by Guest
writer Bill Tynan - Chairman of the Board of Directors.
73,
Robin Haighton, VE3FRH,
President.
[ANS thanks Robin, VE3FRH, for the above information]
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