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    "date": "2013-12-15T08:12:13Z",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-349\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* KySat-2 Ham Radio Software Update\n* UKube-1 on its way to Kazakhstan\n* PUCP-SAT-1 Deploys POCKET-PUCP Femtosatellite\n* FUNcube-1 Whole Orbit Data Available\n* WRAPS: A Portable Satellite Antenna Rotator System\n* NASA video of ham radio participation in Juno\n* 10 GHz CubeSat ESTELLE to carry Cold Gas Thruster\n* $50SAT team seek help from radio hams\n* KB1WTW Addresses US House Committee\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts from All Over\n\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-349.01\nANS-349 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 349.01\n   From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDecember 15, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-349.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKySat-2 Ham Radio Software Update\n\n\nJason Rexroat KK4AJE of the University of Kentucky KySat-2 team\nbrings news of the latest version of the amateur radio ground station\ntelemetry decoder software.\n\nWe really appreciate everyone using our ground station software to\ndecode KySat-2 packets!  We are continuing to take suggestions and\nmade several more bug fixes, and the third version of this software\nis now available for download!\n\nLink: http://ssl.engineering.uky.edu/amateur-radio-operators/\nKySat-2 Info: http://kentuckyspace.com/ or http://kysat2.engr.uky.edu/\n\nOur changelog is included in the download, and also copied below.\nAgain, we appreciate all who have helped us gather telemetry from our\nsatellite, and please continue to do so!  Email us with any bugs or\nsuggestions for improvements and we’ll be sure to work on it!\n\nChangelog:\n\n- “Share” button to automatically email us our log files, along with\ncounters showing how many beacons you’ve shared\n- Custom COM port selection in case your created COM port doesn’t\nshow up in our list\n- Drag and dockable tabs\n- Packaged into single executable file\n\nThese changes will enable further customization on your part, and\nthe automatic sharing will put the data into a format our automated\nscripts can handle to generate our running telemetry tables. I know\nthat the ping functionality is still disabled, but we are pushing\nthrough further subsystem checkout that will allow us to enable this\nand other functionality for you!\n\nJason Rexroat KK4AJE\nSpace Systems Lab, University of Kentucky\njason.rexroat<at>uky.edu\n\nMinotaur-1 ELaNa-4 Satellites http://amsat-uk.org/satellites/elana-4-\ncubesats/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Jason Rexroat, KK4AJE, AMSAT-UK for the above\nannouncement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUKube-1 on its way to Kazakhstan\n\n\nUKube-1 left Clyde Space in Glasgow on its way to Baikonur in\nKazakhstan on December 12, 2013. The 3U CubeSat carries a set of\nAMSAT-UK FUNcube boards (FUNcube-2) to provide an Educational beacon\nand a 435/145 MHz linear transponder for amateur radio SSB/CW\ncommunications.\n\nReports on a space flight forum indicate that the Soyuz-2-1B/Fregat-\nM which will carry UKube-1 is currently expected to launch on March\n27, 2014.\n\nRussian launch schedule thread\nhttp://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26990.450\n\nClyde Space on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/clydespace\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nPUCP-SAT-1 Deploys POCKET-PUCP Femtosatellite\n\n\nThe Peruvian CubeSat PUCP-SAT-1 (145.840 MHz AX.25 FM) was carried\nby the microsatellite UNISAT-5 which was launched on a Dnepr on\nNovember 21, 2013.\n\nWhen in orbit UNISAT-5 deployed PUCP-SAT-1 and Neilsao Vilchez\nreports PUCP-SAT-1 has in turn deployed an even smaller satellite\nPOCKET-PUCP.\n\nThe femtosatellite POCKET-PUCP measures just 8.35 by 4.95 by 1.55 cm\nand has a 10 mW 12 wpm CW (On-Off-Keying OOK) beacon on 437.200 MHz.\nThe team at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú would\nwelcome any reception reports.\n\nNeilsao Vilchez says:\n\nOn Wednesday December 4 we detected our satellite PUCP-SAT-1\n(launched from Dnepr RS-20/UNISAT-5).\n\nWe think it is one of the following objects:\n\n-2013-066AC\n-2013-066S\n-2013-066T\n-2013-066U\n\nWhich are very close to each other and we can not resolve which one\nit is.\n\nWe got our packet beacon at 145.840 MHz with packets stays 20\nseconds, so, it is undoubtedly our beacon, we know that PUCP-SAT-1 is\nalive, healthy, it has been recharging its batteries okay.\n\nOn Friday, December 6, as planned, the POCKET-PUCP (femtosatellite)\nwas released around 0800 UT, we are looking for its 437.200 MHz\ntransmission at 12 wpm.\n\nIts transmission is OA4PUCP SAT1 XXX YYY ZZZ\n\nPUCP-SAT-1 website http://inras.pucp.edu.pe/en/proyectos/pucp-sat-\n1/especificaciones-del-satelite/\n\nFacebook https://www.facebook.com/pucp\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nFUNcube-1 Whole Orbit Data Available\n\nThe Data Warehouse now provides the facility to download FUNcube-1\n(AO-73)Whole Orbit Data (WOD) as a .csv file. The file is produced at\n23:59 every day and contains data for the preceding 24 hours. It\ncontains all the channels shown on the WOD graph, which shows the\nlatest orbit data captured.\n\nThe WOD page is at\nhttps://warehouse.funcube.org.uk/wod.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nWRAPS: A Portable Satellite Antenna Rotator System\n\n\nThe January 2014 edition of QST contains an article by ARRL\nEducation and Technology Program Coordinator Mark Spencer WA8SME on a\nportable azimuth and elevation rotator system for tracking satellites\ncalled WRAPS.\n\nWRAPS stands for Wobbler RadFxSat Antenna Pointing System rotator\nsystem which Mark developed to support tracking CubeSats such as\nFUNcube-1 and the upcoming Fox-1 and RadFxSat/Fox-1B. His target\naudience includes school groups who want to access the capabilities\nof the CubeSats.\n\nThanks to Mark and the ARRL a copy of the article in PDF format is\navailable here WRAPS - Mark Spencer WA8SME QST Jan 2014 Copyright\nARRL. For personal use only - no copying, reprinting or distribution\nwithout written permission from the ARRL.\n\nMark Spencer WA8SME gave a presentation on WRAPS during the 2013\nAMSAT Space Symposium in Houston, Texas, on Friday, November 1, 2013.\nHis talk was recorded by Patrick Stoddard VA7EWK.\n\nApologies for missing the start of Mark's introduction, and for the\nquality of this video. The Symposium organizers dimmed the lights in\nthe front of the room for this presentation, which meant Mark was\nessentially standing in the dark as he gave his presentation.\n\nAt the AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention the presentations on\neducation wrapped up with a talk by Mark Spencer, ARRL Education &\nTechnology Program Director. \"Spence\", WA8SME, briefly described his\nclassroom experiments for measuring the \"wobble\" of the Fox\nsatellite, demonstrating a Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) for a\nsolar array, and WRAPS a lower cost azimuth-elevation rotor system\nfor lightweight satellite antennas.\n\nA limited number of complete WRAPS systems will be available through\nthe AMSAT-NA Store. As of December 12 they were not yet available,\nand AMSAT-NA do not at present have a firm date when they will be in\nstock. Because of uncertainty of the price and number which will be\navailable, they are not taking advanced orders. When they are ready\nto process orders, AMSAT-NA will make the information public.\nPlease do not call the AMSAT office.\n\nARRL http://www.arrl.org/\n\nAMSAT-NA http://www.amsat.org/\n\nFox-1 http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1113\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA, the ARRL, and Spence, WA8SME, for the above\nannouncement]\n\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA video of ham radio participation in Juno\n\n\nWhen NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it\nreceived a boost in speed of more than 7.3 kilometers per second,\nwhich set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter,\nthe largest planet in our solar system.\n\nDuring the flyby, Juno's Waves instrument, which is tasked with\nmeasuring radio and plasma waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere, recorded\namateur radio signals. This was part of a public outreach effort\ninvolving ham radio operators from around the world. They were\ninvited to say \"HI\" to Juno by coordinating radio transmissions that\ncarried the same Morse-coded message.\nOperators from every continent, including Antarctica, participated.\nThe results can be seen in this video clip at\n\nhttp://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA17744.mov\n\nOne of Juno's sensors, a special kind of camera optimized to track\nfaint stars, also had a unique view of the Earth-moon system. The\nresult was an intriguing, low-resolution glimpse of what our world\nwould look like to a visitor from afar.\n\n\"If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,'\nthis is what the crew would see,\" said Scott Bolton, Juno principal\ninvestigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio. \"In\nthe movie, you ride aboard Juno as it approaches Earth and then soars\noff into the blackness of space. No previous view of our world has\never captured the heavenly waltz of Earth and moon.\"\n\nThe cameras that took the images for the movie are located near the\npointed tip of one of the spacecraft's three solar-array arms. They\nare part of Juno's Magnetic Field Investigation (MAG) and are\nnormally used to determine the orientation of the magnetic sensors.\nThese cameras look away from the sunlit side of the solar array, so\nas the spacecraft approached, the system's four cameras pointed\ntoward Earth. Earth and the moon came into view when Juno was about\n600,000 miles (966,000 kilometers) away - about three times the\nEarth-Moon separation.\n\nDuring the flyby, timing was everything. Juno was traveling about\ntwice as fast as a typical satellite, and the spacecraft itself was\nspinning at 2 rpm. To assemble a movie that wouldn't make viewers\ndizzy, the star tracker had to capture a frame each time the camera\nwas facing Earth at exactly the right instant. The frames were sent\nto Earth, where they were processed into video format.\n\n\"Everything we humans are and everything we do is represented in\nthat view,\" said the star tracker's designer, John Jørgensen of the\nDanish Technical University, near Copenhagen.\n\n\"With the Earth flyby completed, Juno is now on course for arrival\nat Jupiter on July 4, 2016,\" said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager\nat NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.\n\nThe Juno spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center in\nFlorida on August 5, 2011. Juno's launch vehicle was capable of\ngiving the spacecraft only enough energy to reach the asteroid belt,\nat which point the sun's gravity pulled it back toward the inner\nsolar system. Mission planners designed the swing by Earth as a\ngravity assist to increase the spacecraft's speed relative to the\nsun, so that it could reach Jupiter. (The spacecraft's speed relative\nto Earth before and after the flyby is unchanged.)\n\nAfter Juno arrives and enters into orbit around Jupiter in 2016, the\nspacecraft will circle the planet 33 times, from pole to pole, and\nuse its collection of science instruments to probe beneath the gas\ngiant's obscuring cloud cover. Scientists will learn about Jupiter's\norigins, internal structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.\n\nSource: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-360\n\nRadio Hams Say Hi To Juno\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/10/09/radio-hams-say-hi-to-juno/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK, and Andy Thomas, G0SFJ for the above\nannouncement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n10 GHz CubeSat ESTELLE to carry Cold Gas Thruster\n\n\nThe 2U ESTELLE will accommodate the QB50 scientific payload and an\nexperimental miniaturized cold gas thruster module with four\nthrusters and 50grams of fuel.\n\nThis mission is a partnership between Estonia, Sweden, Latvia and\nSlovenia. The general hardware design will improve upon the single\nunit ESTCube-1, launched on May 7, 2013.\n\nCold gas propulsion system is seen as a very attractive solution for\nthe CubeSats, as the standard limits the use of pyrotechnics and\nhigh-pressure systems. The propulsion module, developed by NanoSpace,\nuses butane under 2-5 bar pressure. This should be in accordance with\nthe next CubeSat standard revision. The 0.3 unit module will be\nlocated at the opposite end from the QB50 payload. It contains four\nthrusters, which are placed on the same side for maximum delta-v\ncapability (40 m/s). This delta-v capability can be used to alternate\nthe orbit in order to enhance the scientific return of the QB50\nmission by extending the satellite's lifetime.\n\nAn experimental high data rate transmitter (HDRT) is envisaged if it\nfits within the system margins to include it on-board the satellite.\nIt would operate on S, C or X band amateur radio frequencies and use\nBPSK modulation. Up to 10 Mbit/s data rates can be achieved with 3 W\nof operating power.\n\nProposing a UHF GMSK/BPSK downlinks up to 19k2 bps and a series of\nHDRT experiments including a 2.4 GHz downlink using GFSK/BPSK at up\nto1Mbps, a 5.8 GHz downlink using GFSK and BPSK at up to 10Mbps and\na 10 GHz downlink at up to 10 Mbp.\n\nEstCube https://www.facebook.com/estcube\n\nSwedish Space Corporation (SSC)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/SSC.SwedishSpaceCorporation\n\nNanoSpace http://www.sscspace.com/nanospace\n\nCommunication link design at 437.5 MHz for a nanosatellite\nhttp://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/bitstream/2099.1/19403/4/elec_2013_cante\nro_jorge.pdf\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n$50SAT team seek help from radio hams\n\n\nThe $50SAT team is asking for help in capturing telemetry from the\namateur radio 1.5U PocketQube satellite $50SAT on 437.505 MHz (+/-9\nkHz Doppler shift) CW.\n\nWe are trying to determine the charging characteristics of the power\nsystem. The three team members all live above 40 degrees north and\nthe satellite does not warm up enough during nighttime N-S passes to\nallow charging to begin. None of us are usually around during the\ndaytime S-N passes and we would particularly appreciate telemetry\nreports when the satellite is in daylight.\n\nAny form of report is welcome: decode of the fast Morse (120 WPM),\nRTTY demod, audio recording or I/Q capture from a FUNcube or RTL\ndongle would be greatly appreciated.\n\nA link to a detailed description of the communications package can\nbe found on the $50SAT website, http://www.50dollarsat.info/. The\nlast distribution of Keps from AMSAT contain good elements for $50SAT.\n\n$50SAT is one of the smallest amateur radio satellites ever launched\nat 5x5x7.5 cm and weighs only 210 grams. Transmitter power is just\n100 mW.\n\nThanks,\nHowie DeFelice AB2S\nEmail: howied231<at>hotmail.com\n\n$50SAT has been a collaborative education project between Professor\nBob Twiggs, KE6QMD, Morehead State University and three other radio\namateurs, Howie DeFelice, AB2S, Michael Kirkhart, KD8QBA, and Stuart\nRobinson, GW7HPW.\n\nThe $50SAT team plan to make all the software and hardware designs\nfreely available to anyone who wants them for personal or educational\nuse. For further information see the $50SAT Dropbox at\nhttps://www.dropbox.com/sh/l3919wtfiywk2gf/-HxyXNsIr8\n\nThere is a discussion group for $50SAT at:\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/50dollarsat/conversations/topics\n\n50DollarSat\nhttp://www.50dollarsat.info/\n\nHOPE RFM22B FSK transceiver\nhttp://www.hoperf.com/rf/module/fsk/RFM22B.htm\n\nPICAXE-40X2 microcontroller\nhttp://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/PICAXE-Chips/PICAXE-40X2-\nmicrocontroller/\n\nRevolution Education http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/\n\n$50SAT Eagle2 PocketQube Operational\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/22/50sat-eagle2-pocketqube-operational/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above announcement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nKB1WTW Addresses US House Committee\n\n\nDr. Sara Seager, KB1WTW, Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and\nPlanetary Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology addressed the\nHouse Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, United States\nHouse of Representatives December 4, 2013.\n\nInvited witnesses were:\n\nDr. Mary Voytek\nSenior Scientist for Astrobiology, Planetary Science Division\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration\n\nDr. Sara Seager KB1WTW\nClass of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Science\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\n\nDr. Steven Dick\nBaruch S. Blumberg Chair of Astrobiology, John W. Kluge Center\nLibrary of Congress\n\nDr. Sara Seager KB1WTW highlights the importance of CubeSats in\neducation at 0:46 into this video.\n\nWatch Astrobiology: Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System,\nHouse Space Committee, Dec 4, 13\n\nThis video was uploaded to YouTube by SpaceKSC\nhttp://www.spaceksc.com/ Twitter @SpaceKSCBlog\nProfessor Sara Seager KB1WTW - Image credit MIT\n\nProfessor Sara Seager KB1WTW – Image credit MIT\n\nTestimony of Dr. Sara Seager KB1WTW, Hearing on Astrobiology\nhttp://astrobiology.com/2013/12/testimony-of-dr-sara-seager-hearing-\non-astrobiology.html\n\nConcord resident earns Genius Grant\nhttp://www.wickedlocal.com/concord/news/x1868848071/Concord-resident-\nearns-Genius-Grant\n\nInflatable Antenna Could Give CubeSats Greater Reach\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/09/07/inflatable-antenna-could-give-\ncubesats-greater-reach/\n\nHow a Pocket-Size Satellite Could Find Another Earth\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2012/05/12/how-a-pocket-size-satellite-could-\nfind-another-earth/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and David J. Mercado, KK4MND for the above\nannouncement]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nSuccessfulARISS contact with Tochigi Science Lion Project,\nUtsunomiya, Japan\n\nAn International Space Station school contact was completed with\nparticipants at Tochigi Science Lion Project, Utsunomiya, Japan on 14\nDec. The event was scheduled to begin at approximately 07:00 UTC. The\nduration of the contact was approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.\n15 students asked their question to Koichi. Koichi answered all the\nquestions. But 2 or 3 answers were very weak signal.\nThe contact was direct between NA1SS and 8N1ISS.\n\n\nThe ARISS school contact event was held as a part of the \"Tochigi\nScience Lion Project\".  The project aims at constructing a science\ncommunication network in order to enhance interest in science and the\nscience literacy of residents in Tochigi prefecture. Teikyo\nUniversity manages the project and it is subsidized by JST (Japan\nScience and Technology Agency). The name of  the project comes from\nthe shape of Tochigi prefecture, which looks like the profile of a\nlion.\n\nA group of students were selected from different elementary and\njunior high schools around Tochigi prefecture.  There were 89\napplicants, and 15 students were selected. The group consists of 12\nelementary school students including 3 members of YAC (Young\nAstronauts Club), 2 junior high school students and a student from a\nschool for the visually impaired.\n\n\nParticipants asked the following questions:\n\n\n1.   The moment you get into zero gravity, how is the condition of\nyour body? And how do you feel?\n\n2.   It is said that the body's internal clock is set by the morning\nsun on Earth. Does your body's clock work even in space? When do you\nfeel sleepy or hungry? Is it the same time as you are on Earth?\n\n3.   Please tell me how to put out a fire in case one breaks out on\nthe \"ISS.\"\n\n4.   What do you do if you feel bad and you can't work on the \"ISS\"?\n\n5.   Can you see \"Ison Comet\" in space?\n\n6.   How does your body pressure or your body's condition change\nbetween when you are on Earth and in space?\n\n7.   What do you think about \"space debris\"?\n\n8.   Do you sometimes quarrel with other astronauts?\n\n9.   When you became captain of the spaceship, what did you decide\nto do to organize the team?\n\n10.  Please tell me about your goals and dreams.\n\n11.  Tochigi is famous for strawberries. If we were to grow them in\nspace, what shape would they become?\n\n12.  Is there any thing that you think is more convenient in space\nthan on Earth?\n\n13.  What kinds of space foods do you have? Aren't you bored with\nspace foods?\n\n14.  If you cut onions in space, do your tears still run down your\nface?\n\n15.  While training to become an astronaut, did you have any\nproblems? What is your motivation to make your dreams come true?\n\nPLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:\n\n\nSign up for the SAREX maillist at\nhttp://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex\n\nVisit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the\nInternational Space Station (ARISS).\n\nTo receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status\n\n\nNext planned event(s):\n\n1.  Istituto Tecnico Industriale \"Galileo Ferraris\", San Giovanni\nValdarno, Italy, direct via IQ5GX\nMon, 16Dec2013, 16:28 UTC\n\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering\nthe participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA,\nCNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from\nparticipating countries.\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the\nexcitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-\nboard the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and\ncommunities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS\ncan energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and\nlearning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on\nthe website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio\nAmateurs of Canada).\n\n\n\n[ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN, and ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts from all over\n\nLITHUANIA, LY.  Vilmantas\nLY3BY is QRV as LY2013SAT until December 24 to commemorate the first\nLithuanian nano-satellite LituanicaSAT-1.\nQSL via LY3BY.\n\n[AMSAT thanks the ARLD050 DX news for the above short)\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n/EX\n\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",
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