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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/M5UTL5ZCNRIOCKT7HQSVYIZSUQE3O3G5/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "M5UTL5ZCNRIOCKT7HQSVYIZSUQE3O3G5", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/M5UTL5ZCNRIOCKT7HQSVYIZSUQE3O3G5/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joseph Spier", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-137 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2015-05-17T03:39:40Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-137\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* Fox-1 Development, Launch, and Frequency Coordination Status at Dayton\n* AMSAT FieldOps Team Fox-1 Operating Guide is Available\n* US Naval Academy CubeSat Launch to Include Next APRS Satellite\n* Iowa CubeSat students get ham radio licenses\n* Extreme DX satellite contact between UK and Texas\n* International Space Station Partners Adjust Spacecraft Schedule\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-137.01\nANS-137 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 137.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE May 17, 2015\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-137.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nFox-1 Development, Launch, and Frequency Coordination Status at Dayton\nAMSAT Dayton Hamvention Annoucements (Saved)\n\n\nDuring the AMSAT Forum at the Dayton Hamvention, AMSAT Vice President\nOperations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, and AMSAT Vice President – Engineering\nJerry Buxton, N0JY, provided more information about the Fox-1 satellites \nunder\ndevelopment. Buxton, N0JY, says Fox-1A has passed all environmental \ntesting and\nis integrated into the P-POD deployment canister. \"The 'remove before flight\npin' has been pulled, the doors closed on the P-POD, and everything is \naboard\nthe shipping container now en route to Vandenberg Air Force Base in \nCalifornia\nfor launch\", said Buxton.\n\nPreviously Buxton had announced plans to incorporate an L band receiver \nin Fox-\n1C and Fox-1D. The addition will allow ground commanded selection of the U/v\n(normal Fox-1 bands) or the new L/v 1.2 GHz (23 cm) mode. Both bands will\noperate as FM single channel.\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?p=4000\n\nDuring the satellite operations segment of the AMSAT Forum Glasbrenner\nprovided the details of the uplink and downlink frequencies for the Fox-1 FM\ncubesat fleet.\n\n Fox-1 Frequencies\n\n Uplink FM (67 Hz tone) Downlink FM\n\nFox-1A 435.180 MHz 145.980 MHz\n\nRadFxSat/Fox-1B* 435.250 MHz 145.960 MHz\n\nFox-1C* 435.300 MHz 145.920 MHz\n 1267.300 MHz ** 145.920 MHz\n\nFox-1D* 435.350 MHz 145.880 MHz\n 1267.350 MHz ** 145.880 MHz\n\n* Pending IARU Coordination, If needed, changes will be announced\n** U/v and L/v operations switchable by command station,\n not operational simultaneously\n\nAccording to Buxton, the team is planning to have an affordable L band \nuplink\nground station available to amateurs by the time Fox-1C is on orbit.\n\n+ Fox-1A will launch on a NASA ELaNa flight scheduled during the\n third quarter, 2015 from Vandenberg AFB. Fox-1A is a passenger\n aboard this launch driven by the schedule of the primary payload.\n When updates are available they will be announced via the ANS and\n in the AMSAT Journal.\n\n+ Fox-1B will fly with the Vanderbilt University radiation\n experiments expected in 2016.\n\n+ Fox-1C will launch on Spaceflight’s maiden mission of the SHERPA\n multi-cubesat deployer on a SpaceX Falcon 9 flight planned for\n late 2015.\n\n+ Fox-1D is a flight spare for Fox-1C. If not needed as a spare\n it will fly with the University of Iowa HERCI radiation mapping\n experiment.\n\n+ Fox-1E “Evolution” will carry a Mode J linear transponder. The\n transponder is planned to be 30 kHz wide and will also have a\n 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon. Launch opportunities are being\n developed, to be announced at a later date.\n\nAMSAT has an immediate need to raise funds to cover both the launch contract\nand additional materials for construction and testing for Fox-1C. Please \nhelp\nus to continue to keep amateur radio in space. Donations may be made via \nthe:\n\n+ Paypal and credit card payment on the AMSAT website at\n http://www.amsat.org\n\n+ Donation link in the AMSAT store:\n http://store.amsat.org/catalog/\n\n+ Call the AMSAT office at (888) 322-6728\n\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Engineering and AMSAT Operations Teams for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT FieldOps Team Fox-1 Operating Guide is Available\n\n\nAMSAT's Director of Field Operations, Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK, invites you\nto view and download the \"Fox-1 Operating Guide\" which was released at the\n2015 Dayton Hamvention. This color PDF file is designed to print \ndouble-sided.\nTwo different resolution versions are available:\n\n+ Low resolution PDF suitable for on-screen display (~400 KB size)\n\n+ High resolution, press quality PDF for hard-copy printing (~2 MB size)\n\nTo access these files visit the AMSAT web and follow the path:\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org --> Satellite Info --> Station and Operating Hints.\n\nThe direct link is\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=2144\nwhere you'll find the link to the Guide.\n\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT FieldOps Team for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUS Naval Academy CubeSat Launch to Include Next APRS Satellite\n\n\nSometime on or about May 20, the next US Naval Academy satellites and Brno\nUniversity PSK31 transponders head into space from Cape Canaveral on an \nAtlas 5\nlauncher and into an approximately 50° orbit. The launch will include \nthe Psat\nAPRS satellite — a pair of identical 1.5 U cubesats (A and B) — as well \nas the\nBRICsat and USS Langley (Unix Space Server Langley) nanosatellites.\n\n “Psat is a Naval Academy student satellite project named in honor of \none of\nour graduates, Bradford Parkinson, of GPS fame, which contains an APRS\ntransponder for relaying remote telemetry, sensor, and user data from remote\nusers and Amateur Radio environmental experiments or other data sources \nback to\nAmateur Radio experimenters via a global network of Internet-linked ground\nstations,” explained APRS developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. In addition to the\ndata transponder, a secondary Brno University transponder will support \nmulti-\nuser PSK31 text messaging. The APRS downlink will be 145.825 MHz (1200 baud\nAX.25 APRS).\n\n“We welcome radio amateurs worldwide to tune into the downlinks and either\nIGate packets into the global APRS-IS system or to e-mail me,” Bruninga \nsaid.\n“After launch, the next several orbits will be over USA and Europe.” \nBruninga\nsaid PSAT, including the PSK31 transponder, would not be available for use\nuntil all on-orbit checks are complete, a process he said could take “many,\nmany days.” He also requested reports on any PSK31 (FM) heard on 435.350 MHz\n(the PSK31 uplink is 28.120 MHz).\n\nThe PSK31 multi-user FDMA transponder experiment on Psat and BRICsat is\nsimilar to the one on RAFT and PCSAT2. It will allow messaging among up \nto 30\nmodest ground stations simultaneously, Bruninga said.\n\nPsat is one of five APRS-networked Amateur Radio satellites that will be in\norbit during 2015, and all will appear on the live APRS downlink page. The\nothers include PCsat-1, in orbit since 2001, QIKcom-1, set to launch in\nSeptember, QIKcom-2, set to launch in December, and the ARISS packet radio\nsystem on board the International Space Station since 2007.\n\nBRICsat will carry a PSK31 transponder with a 28.120 MHz uplink (2.5 kHz\nbandwidth) and a UHF FM downlink on 435.350 MHz. Gunter’s Space Page \ndescribes\nUSS Langley as “a proof-of-concept mission for providing global Internet \naccess\nvia a nanosatellite constellation.” The satellite will act as a web \nserver and\nrouter in space, using Internet Protocol and Linux. Downlinks 437.475 \nMHz (9600\nbaud AX.25 packet telemetry) with uplink at 145.825 MHz. The IARU \ncoordination\npage said that while 28.120 MHz is not in the band plan as a satellite\nfrequency, “the panel considered the motivation for this frequency as to \ngive\nlower class license holders in the US the opportunity to participate in the\nproject.”\n\nBruninga said satellite experiments such as Psat “serve our educational and\noutreach goals for student projects encouraging young people to be \ninterested\nin Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.” He said he hopes other \nschools\nwill build either additional 145.825 MHz relay satellites or experimental\nsensors. “We hope that Psat will be the ‘egg’ in this chicken-egg \nconundrum,”\nhe added.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARRL Letter for 5/14/2015 for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nIowa CubeSat students get ham radio licenses\n\n\nThe University of Iowa reports its students will conduct a Van Allen \nradiation\nbelt experiment with the AMSAT Fox CubeSat\n\nThanks to a proposal by the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, a \ngroup of\nsenior electrical and computer engineering students will reenact James Van\nAllen’s original experiment — this time with updated technology. Group \nmembers\nKevin Klosterman KD9CPF, Bryan Senchuk KD9CPD, Tyler Dunkel KE0CHR, and \nPatrick\nMaloney KD9CPD took on the task as a part of their senior design project for\nthe College of Engineering.\n\nThe group is trying to figure out how much energy is emanating from the Van\nAllen belts at a specific altitude. To measure that, they’ve built a \nradiation\nsensor attached to a circuit board that will launch into space on a small\nsatellite. There, the radiation sensor will detect energetic particles from\nthe Van Allen belts. The satellite will sit in a low-Earth orbit and \ncircle the\nglobe every 90 minutes, some data will be transmitted in real time, but \nall of\nit is stored for later transmission.\n\n“I feel like we’ve learned something new every day,” Klosterman says.\n\nNot only did the students have to come up with a design concept, write the\ncode to run the device, and build the circuit board by hand, they also \nhad to\nlearn and become licensed ham radio operators as well.\n\nThe satellite that the students are using to launch into space is part \nof the\nCubeSat program — an initiative supported by NASA to help give students more\nhands-on experience with space research — and is being constructed by AMSAT,\nthe Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, whose mission is to foster amateur\nradio participation in space technology. The data from a full day of \noperating\nthe experiment will be transmitted from the satellite as it makes a \nsingle pass\nover the CubeSat tracking station on top of Van Allen Hall.\nThe final result will be a full mapping of the radiation levels at a low \nEarth\norbit.\n\nIt is hoped the Fox CubeSat with an FM voice transponder will be launched\nlater this year.\n\nRead the full story at\nhttp://now.uiowa.edu/2015/05/seniors-reenact-van-allen-radiation-belt-\nexperiments\n\nEach year 100’s of students are introduced to amateur radio through \nUniversity\nCubeSat satellite programs with many going on to get their amateur license.\n\nAMSAT Fox\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=1113\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA and University of Iowa for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nExtreme DX satellite contact between UK and Texas\n\n\nOn April 27, 2015 at 1901 GMT, Cuban radio amateur Hector Martinez\nW5CBF/CO6CBF achieved a 7537.8 km DX contact with UK amateur Peter \nAtkins G4DOL\nvia FO-29.\n\nHector reported, \"I am pleased to report that Peter G4DOL and I had another\nextreme QSO on FO-\n29. It is my furthest contact on the birds!\n\nBack on October 2013, Peter and I had a very nice contact between EL92sd,\nCienfuegos, Cuba and IO80so, Weymouth area, UK. It was a 7286 km contact and\nprobably the first contact between UK and Cuba on FO-29!\n\nPeter and I desired to try again on FO-29, this time between EM21hs, \nTexas, US\nand his habitual spot in IO80so. We were able to complete a very nice CW\ncontact on the 92319 orbit of FO-29. Peter had just 0.1 degree as maxim\nelevation while I had 0.8 during the 80 seconds mutual window.\n\nAs before, Peter did all the hard work by driving until his habitual \nspot at a\ncliff-top and setting up his “portable satellite station” (19 elements \nYagi for\n435 MHz and 10 elements Yagi for 145 MHz both with horizontal \npolarization). FO-\n29 was sounding really good on these orbits. It was a solid 559 satellite\ncontact, we were very impressed.\n\nWe made the calculations using our 10 digit grid squares at\nhttp://no.nonsense.ee/qth/map.html\n\nThe distance between the stations was 7537.799 km (4683.77 mi). To my\nknowledge, the longest distance achieved on FO-29 until now had been \n7,533.685\nkm between Frank, K4FEG and Erich, DK1TB\nhttp://www.qrz.com/db/k4feg\n\nUPDATE 2015-05-08: K4KEG has now revised his distance to 7,538.685 km. This\nputs his contact with DK1TB just ahead of that of W5CBF and G4DOL.\n\nIt appears that an even longer distance is achievable. It has been reported\nthat FO-29 has a “theoretical maximum range” of 7502 km, but I guess that at\nleast 7600km is doable. We will try to break our own record!\n\nThis contact was possible thanks to the great feature implemented on SatPC32\nV12.8b. There is an option of seeing the frequency you are at the satellite\nreceiver at any time during a pass. It allows the operators to tune the \nright\nfrequencies and attempt a contact without having to search for each other.\n\nThanks very much to Peter for his persistence, effort and all the fun!\"\n\n2013 FO-29 satellite contact between Cuba and the UK\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/10/20/fo-29-satellite-contact-between-cuba-and-the-uk/\n\nFO-29 information\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/two-way-comms-satellites/fuji-oscar-29-jas-2/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Hector, W5CBF/CO6CBF and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nInternational Space Station Partners Adjust Spacecraft Schedule\n\n\nNASA and its international partners agreed Tuesday to set a new schedule for\nspacecraft traffic to and from the International Space Station.\n\nThe partner agencies agreed to adjust the schedule after hearing the Russian\nFederal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) preliminary findings on the recent \nloss of\nthe Progress 59 cargo craft. The exact dates have not yet been \nestablished, but\nwill be announced in the coming weeks. Roscosmos expects to provide an \nupdate\nabout the Progress 59 investigation on Friday, May 22.\n\nThe return to Earth for NASA's Terry Virts, ESA (European Space Agency)\nastronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov \nnow is\ntargeted for early June. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts\nMikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka will remain aboard the station to \nbegin\nExpedition 44.\n\nThe next Russian cargo craft, Progress 60, will launch in early July to\ndeliver several tons of food, fuel and supplies. The space station has\nsufficient supplies to support crews until the fall of 2015.\n\nThe Soyuz spacecraft carrying Expedition 44’s Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg\nKononenko of Roscosmos, and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration\nAgency, will launch in late July from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.\n\nThe date of SpaceX’s seventh resupply flight under its commercial resupply\nservices contract with NASA still is under review but remains targeted \nfor no\nearlier than June 19. The mission will deliver to station additional \nsupplies\nand research that improve life on Earth and drive progress toward future \nspace\nexploration. It also will deliver the first of two international docking\nadapters, which will enable future commercial crew vehicles to dock to the\norbiting laboratory.\n\nAdditional 2015 space station-related launch dates also are under review.\n\nNASA will continue to update the launch schedule online at:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/launchschedule\n\nFor more information about the International Space Station, visit:\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/station\n\n\n[ANS thanks NASA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT Events\n\n\nInformation about AMSAT activities at other important events around\nthe country. Examples of these events are radio club meetings where\nAMSAT Area Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working\namateur satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence (a table with\nAMSAT literature and merchandise, sometimes also with presentations,\nforums, and/or demonstrations).\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, May 15-17 2015, Dayton Hamvention in\nDayton OH (Hara Arena)\n\n*Thursday, 21 May 2015 – International Microwave Symposium 2015 in\nPhoenix AZ\n\n*Saturday, 6 June 2015 – White Mountain Hamfest in Show Low AZ\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 12-13 June 2015 – HAM-COM in Irving TX (west of\nDallas)\n\n*Thursday, 9 July 2015 – presentation for the Escondido Amateur Radio\nSociety in Escondido CA\n\n*Friday and Saturday, 7-8 August 2015 – Austin Summerfest in Austin TX\n\n*Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 August 2015 – Boxboro Hamfest and ARRL\nNew England Convention in Boxborough MA\n\n*Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, October 16-18 2015, AMSAT Symposium in\nDayton OH (Dayton Crown Plaza)\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nUpcoming ARISS Contacts\n\nIt is unlikely that there will be any contacts with the Columbus module\nstation until after a crew change, which will probably occur in late June or\nJuly.\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n****************************************************************************\n\nLatest ARISS News\n\n* Gagarin from Outer Space: A contact was successful Thu 2015-05-07 at \n08:30\nUTC with Ryazan State Radio Technical University, Ryazan, Russia, direct via\nRK3SWB. The ISS callsign was RSØISS, and the astronaut was Mikhail \nKorniyenko,\nRN3BF.\n\n* A contact was successful Sat 2015-05-09 08:20 UTC between Kursk, \nRussia, WWII\nveterans, direct via TBD. The ISS callsign was RSØISS, and the astronaut was\nGennady Padalka, RN3DT.\n\n* Contacts on Sat 2015-05-09 09:52:06 UTC 27 deg with Istituto Tecnico\nIndustriale Statale “Enrico Fermi,” Lucca, Italy, direct via IQ5LU, and with\nStudi di Firenze – Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Sesto Fiorentino,\nItaly, direct via IQ5PO, were both successful. The ISS callsign was \nIRØISS, and\nthe astronaut was Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUDF, who answered 22 questions.\nThere were several hundred in attendance at both locations, along with\nnewspaper and TV media. The event was streamed live on the Web.\n\nState Technical Industrial Institute is named for Enrico Fermi and is \nlocated\nin Lucca, Northern Tuscany. Five year courses are offered in Mechanics,\nElectrotechnics, Electronics, Information, and Communication Tecnology with\nseveral laboratories. There are about 700 students, aged 15 through 19. The\nschool had an Amateur Radio Club with the callsign IK5YOI (license expired).\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\n* Reminder: Cambi-Hams DXpedition to Mull Island is Active May 15-21\n\nThe Cambi-Hams group is going to activate Mull, Inner Hebrides (IOSA NH15,\nSCOTIA CN10, WW Loc. IO76EJ) from May 15 to 21. They plan to be active \non 80-\n10m on SSB, CW, RTTY, and PSK; also on 6m, 4m, and 2m, and on \nsatellites: AO-7\n(Mode B), FO-29, SO-50, and AO-73. The group also hopes for short trips \nto Iona\n(EU-008) and Treshnish Island (EU-108), see their website for updates on \nthat.\nQSL via ClubLog OQRS or via bureau.\nhttp://dx.camb-hams.com/\n\nWatch AMSAT's Upcoming Satellite Operations page for late breaking news \nabout\nDX and grid operations:\nhttp://www.amsat.org/?page_id=3921\n\n[ANS thanks the DXNL Newsletter 1936 for May 13, 2015 for the above \ninformation]\n\n\nFirst all CW 73 on 73 Award\n\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM, reports,\n\"Congratulations to Hideo Kambayashi, JH3XCU, for working 73 different \nstations\non AO-73 since September 1, 2014. Notably, he is the first to work all 73\ndifferent stations using CW.\"\n\nFor more information on the award see\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/funcube/73-on-73-award/\n\nAO-73 was launched on November 21, 2013 and is the first spacecraft to \nhave a\nprimary mission of educational outreach to schools and the smallest ever\nsatellite to carry a linear (SSB/CW) transponder for radio amateurs.\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\nNew NASA Deputy Administrator is a Radio Ham\n\nProf. Dava Newman KB1HIK was sworn in as NASA Deputy Administrator on May 15\nfrom her MIT office.\n\nHer appointment had been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27. NASA\nAdministrator Charles Bolden (formerly KE4IQB) said, “I am delighted \nwith the\nSenate confirmation of Dr. Dava Newman to be the deputy administrator of \nNASA.\nThe strong bipartisan support Dr. Newman received in the Senate is a \nreflection\nof her well-earned reputation and renown as a global leader in science and\ntechnology research and policy.”\n\nNewman is a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering\nsystems. On the MIT faculty since 1993, she directs the Institute’s \nTechnology\nand Policy Program and MIT Portugal Program, and is co-director of the\nDepartment of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Man Vehicle Laboratory. She is a\nHarvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology faculty member, and a\nMargaret McVicar Faculty Fellow.\n\nHer research has included modeling human performance in low and \nmicro-gravity\nconditions, examining the dynamics and control of astronaut motion, and the\ndevelopment of assisted walking devices for the physically handicapped. \nPerhaps\nher most prominent project has been development of the BioSuit, a skintight\nspacesuit that would give astronauts unprecedented comfort and freedom in\nexploration of planetary surfaces and extra-vehicular activity.\n\nAfter accepting the confirmation, Newman said, “It’s an enormous honor to\nserve at NASA in times when our country is extending humanity’s reach into\nspace while strengthening American leadership here on Earth. I’m profoundly\ngrateful to President Obama, the United States Senate, and Administrator \nBolden\n— along with everyone at MIT. I can’t wait to come aboard.”\n\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2015/05/16/new-nasa-deputy-administrator-is-a-radio-ham/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n/EX\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining\ndonors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-\ntional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT\nOffice.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership\nat one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-\ndent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.\nContact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership\ninformation.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n\n-- \n-73\nk6wao\nJoe Spier\[email protected]\n\n", "attachments": [] }