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Subj: AMSAT-NA August President's Letter
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 222.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 10, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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At the end of July I visited the AMSAT-UK 18th Colloquium, held at the
University of Surrey in the City of Guilford near London. I am pleased to
report that as Usual the Colloquium was a great success and provided me to
talk with the Presidents and leaders of other AMSATs. In general most
AMSATs have much the same concerns as we do in North America, and revolve
around frequency loss and intrusion into the Amateur Frequencies of
services that probably should be elsewhere.
AMSAT - UK provided many good papers for thought, and two in particular that
I would like to bring to your attention. These are a paper by Jerry Brown
K50E on his working portable with AO-40, and a paper given by James Miller,
G3RUH, on working FEC telemetry with AO-40. Jerry is becoming a fixture at
AMSAT-UK, his papers are amusing, Practical and technical in nature. I have
asked Jerry to repeat his paper in Toronto - If for any reason he cannot do
so then we will find a person to read it for him. James' paper on the use
of Forward Error Correction (FEC) with AO-40 telemetry was another paper
that I had great pleasure in listening to for James went out of his was to
thank Phil Karn K9AQ for his persistence in "pushing" FEC as the right
system to ensure better copy of the AO-40 telemetry under very adverse
conditions. To quote James "It is one of the best things, for Amateur
satellites, to be developed in the past 20 years. My congratulations to
Phil, James and the whole implementation team that
helped bring this about and another thank you to AMSAT VP of Operations,
Stacey Mills, W4SM, for modifying his telemetry program, so that we all may
use the FEC operation.
Now is the time for selection of four members of the Board of Directors or
just over half of the BoD. Please do Vote and use only the Yellow voting
card, the Black and White one is not Valid and if sent in will not be
counted. However it is important that you do vote and carefully select the
people who you want to be your representatives on the BoD. I am looking for
a record turn-out this year in ballots cast, - but please do not vote for
more than four or your ballot would again be invalid.
Tom Clark W3IWI, has put out an E-mail with his observations concerning
ECHO, Tom explains the status of the Satellite and advises that it is
anticipated that it will be launched on March 31 2004
some 6 weeks earlier than I had expected. So if you wish to fly your call
sign on the satellite you had better get in
touch with Martha ASAP (301-589-6062) and advise her of the details as well
as paying the modest fee.
You, the members, had requested a membership competition and we are
providing one, but so far very few of you are participating. Remember it is
to get New Members into AMSAT not old ones who are
returning. If there is a sudden upsurge in interest then I will donate an
additional prize of an Arrow antenna in addition to the First Prize of a
tri-band Hand-held ...... All equipment to use on ECHO. Can you resist the
offer?. See the July /August issue of the AMSAT Journal for details.
I am pleased to advise that Barry Delong (VA3BJD) and his crew are in the
final stages of developing the AMSAT -NA annual meeting and Space Symposium
(the 21st). Details of the Hotel and Registration can be found both on the
AMSAT web site and in the latest AMSAT Journal. Toronto is now effectively
SARS free as was demonstrated on July 30 when
over 400,000 people attended an out door Concert in Toronto with many
attendees from the USA. We are all looking forward to seeing you in Toronto
on October 17, 18, and 19. In addition to the normal papers etc. that are
expected at AMSAT meeting there is a great program for spouses. On the
Sunday Morning there is a visit to the Hammond Radio Museum, one of the top
rated museums of it's type in the World. Please refer to the Journal and
the web site for details - Book early to get the best prices.
In closing , I once more ask you to VOTE for your BoD representatives. The
more people that vote the more sure we are, that the elected people are your
representatives.
73,
Robin Haighton, VE3FRH
President, AMSAT-NA
[ANS thanks Robin, VE3FRH, for the above information]
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