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BID : ANS-039.04
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Subj: Youngest Amateur Extra announces success via ARISS
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From: CX7BY@CX7BY.MVD.URY.SA
To : SAT@AMSAT
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 039.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. February 8, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-039.04
An Oregon girl considered a year ago as the youngest General class licensee
in the US now may be the country's youngest Amateur Extra ticket holder.
Seven-year-old Mattie Clauson, AD7BL (ex-KD7TYN and ex-KD7SDF), of Roseburg
passed her Extra examination January 14 during a Valley Amateur Radio Club
ARRL-VEC volunteer examination session in Eugene. The FCC granted her new
ticket and an Extra-appropriate call sign on January 20.
She announced her accomplishment in a message routed via the RS0ISS packet
system on the International Space Station. "Looks like a future astronaut to
me," Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Chairman Frank
Bauer, KA3HDO, remarked after spotting the post.
Mattie says she'd at least like to talk with one of the ISS astronauts some
day. She says she heard ISS Expedition 8 Commander Mike Foale, KB5UAC, on
the air from NA1SS but was unable to make contact. She keeps listening,
however. She's also a member of the ISS FanClub and enjoys digipeating
through RS0ISS.
[ANS thanks the ARRL for the above information]
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