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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 327.06
>From AMSAT HQSILVER SPRING, MD.
November 23, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-327.06
** US Federal government entities have been authorized to purchase and
operate radios certified by the FCC in the Family Radio Service. This,
according to the May 2003 Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal
Radio Frequency Management. The manual says that pursuant to Part 95
Subpart B of the FCC Rules and Regulations, government users will be
accorded the same privileges as non-federal users. Also, since FRS users
must
share each channel and no user is assured protection from interference
caused
by another authorized user, federal entities may not purchase and operate
F-R-S radios for planned communications operations that safeguard human life
or property. --Newsline
** The President of Columbiad Launch Services Inc. ,
Mr. Richard Graf, announced today Columbiad's has begun accepting requests
to launch Scientific and Memorial flights into space from their new,
advanced
technology, ballistic launch system. Columbiad Launch Services Inc. is a
dynamic new commercial space launch company dedicated to providing
affordable access to space for everyone. Columbiad is currently developing a
fully portable Industrial Sounding System (ISS) which uses advanced
ballistic propulsion technology to propel a variety of low cost launch
vehicles into space for scientific research and memorial space
lights. --SpaceDaily
** The spate of solar storms to hit Earth in recent
days may be caused by the sun's iron-rich interior, says a UMR researcher
who theorizes that the sun's core is made of iron rather than hydrogen.Dr.
Oliver Manuel, a professor of nuclear chemistry, believes that iron, not
hydrogen, is the sun's most abundant element. In a paper accepted for
publication in the Journal of Fusion Energy, Manuel asserts that the
"standard solar model" -- which assumes that the sun's core is made of
hydrogen -- has led to misunderstandings of how such solar flares occur, as
well as inaccurate views on the nature of global climate
change. --SpaceDaily
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