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Subj: President's Letter May 2003
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 145.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. May 25, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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Hello again AMSAT Members,
It was a great pleasure to meet so many of you at Dayton
last weekend.
Although the number of 'Hams" appeared to be slightly less
than last
year and there were a few more spaces in the flea market,
I am pleased
to report that AMSAT has a very good time at Dayton. This
year we had
more members renew their memberships and more new members
join than for
the last several years.
As is almost traditional the Saturday Morning AMSAT Forum
was packed
and three excellent talks were given by Rick Hambly, W2GPS
on "ECHO -
AMSAT's latest Satellite" Gould Smith WA4SXM on "Getting
Started in
Amateur Radio Satellites" and by Bdale Garbee, KB0G on "A
new approach
to Spacecraft onboard Command and Telemetry Interfacing"
All three
talks were very well received by the audience and the
applause, for
each speaker was loud.
Unfortunately, a few days before Dayton, I learnt that
ECHO will not be
launched this year, but will have a delay of about 6
months. This is
not an AMSAT delay but have learnt that the launch
organization does
not have a primary payload for their Fall Launch. This
means that
unless we become the Primary Payload, something we could
not afford, we
must wait the 6 months until the next launch. On the
positive side, it
gives us a few more months to complete the work on ECHO,
complete the
Software and complete the tests. It may also slightly
reduce our
overall launch costs.
Returning to Dayton, I would like to thank the 30+
Volunteers who
offered to man the AMSAT Booth and those who "turned up"
during the 3
days asking if they could be of assistance. Your help was
very much
appreciated particularly by those of us who were
organizing the AMSAT
event.
On another matter, I am now pleased to report that the
AMSAT Annual
meeting this year will take place in Toronto, as
originally planned.
The Hotel Contract has arrived at this QTH and will be
signed about the
time you read this. The Toronto Team who are organising
this event
will have a Spouses program and on the Sunday Morning a
visit can be
made to the Hammond Radio Museum - one of the leading
museums in North
America.
You will note that this year is the "election" year for
four positions
on the Board of Directors. Please do vote for your
representative of
Choice - this is your organisation and it is up to you to
choose the
right people to represent you.
I understand that we may have six or more people running
for four
places on the board. That is very good, but please read
their
information and do vote for your choice.
[ANS thanks Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, for the above
information.]
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