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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 025.01 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. January 25, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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January, the start of a New Year and one which I believe will be an
excellent year for AMSAT.
Echo is due for launch in a window which starts March 31st and continues
through April and into May. Of course we are all looking for the launch to
be early, but that does not depend on AMSAT as much as on the Launch
Agency. Our ECHO Launch Fund Campaign is progressing well and is now over
$51K almost half way towards the goal of $110K which would pay off the costs
incurred in launching the satellite and maintain our reserve fund at a level
which would enable an early return to working on EAGLE.
AMSAT is auctioning off a beautiful sculpture of AO-40. I thought that you
might be interested in looking at it. Please point your browser to our eBay
auction at
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3656287556&category=1346
Or, you can go to http://www.amsat.org and click on the link on the main
page. So far the response has been excellent, please take a look and if you
would like to buy this sculpture, please put in your bid, the donation to
AMSAT will go into the ECHO launch Campaign Fund.
I would also like to acknowledge a donation of $1000 from AMSAT-YV toward
the Launch Campaign. Every donation is gratefully received, this is the only
way in which we can design build and launch our satellites.
ECHO is now in the final stages of integration and test, it has made its
first flight, by aircraft, and is now in Colorado where the flight ready L
and S band units are to be installed and where the Digital Voice Recorder
will be integrated all within the next week or two. In my next letter I hope
to be able to report that ECHO is either on it's way or is packed and ready
to go to the launch site.
Many thanks must go to those who have worked so hard and diligently on the
ECHO project.
73
Robin Haighton VE3FRH
President AMSAT
[ANS thanks Robin, VE3FRH for the above information]
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