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    "subject": "[ans] ANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins",
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    "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-209\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* AMSAT Submits Comments to the US Government on ITAR Transition\n* ARISS Leadership from AMSAT and ARRL to be on-hand for EAA\n  Airventure ARISS contact\n* July/August AMSAT Journal is Ready\n* 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Has Been Mailed\n* STRaND-1 Heard After 113 Days of Silence\n* Slime Mold Satellite gets into the media\n* QB50: Ham Radio transponder payloads to launch 2014\n* AMSAT-UK Colloquium videos now available\n* AMSAT members wave at Cassini\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-209.01\nANS-209 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 209.01\n>From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nDATE July 28, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-209.01\n\n\nAMSAT Submits Comments to the US Government on ITAR Transition\n\nOn May 24, 2013 the Department of State's Directorate of Defense\nTrade Controls (DDTC) released proposed changes to the US Munitions\nList (USML) Category XV (\"Spacecraft Systems and Related Articles\"),\nredefining what constitutes satellites that would remain under the\nUSML. Satellites removed from USML will be transferred to the\nDepartment of Commerce's Commerce Control List (CCL).  Consequently,\nthe Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)\nalso released proposed changes on May 24, 2013 regarding\nmodifications to the Commerce Control List, creating a separate\ncategory for satellites that were formerly controlled under ITAR\n(International Traffic in Arms Regulations).\n\nAMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW and AMSAT Congressional Liaison\nPeter Portanova, WB2OQQ took on the task of drafting comments in\nresponse to the combined 105 pages of \"bureaucratize\" drafted by the\nDDTC and the BIS.  Former AMSAT President Bill Tynan, W3XO crafted\ninitial comments that provided a starting point.  Peter, using\nvarious points of contact in Washington to help gauge how AMSAT might\nsubmit remarks, made recommendations on the crafting of AMSAT's\nresponse.  Barry then wrote two different drafts, one addressed to\nthe DDTC in response to the USML changes, requesting confirmation\nthat Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft and associated equipment\nwill be removed from the USML.   The other document is addressed to\nthe BIS in response to the proposed changes to the CCL, suggesting\nthat Amateur Satellite Service spacecraft and associated equipment be\nseparately categorized and controlled given the significant\ndifferences between Commercial and Amateur Satellite Service\nspacecraft.  Both drafts were initially reviewed by the AMSAT Board\nof Directors with the final versions submitted on 6 JUL 13.\n\nIf you would like to review both submissions they have been placed\non the AMSAT website (www.amsat.org).   In addition, AMSAT's\nsubmission to BIS  (along with the comments of others) may be viewed\nat:  http://tinyurl.com/k75u2go\n\nAMSAT's submission to the DDTC along with other interested parties\nmay be found here:  http://tinyurl.com/lxobvxh\n\nNote that this PDF contains \"all\" comments received; AMSAT's\ncomments start on page 138.\n\nBoth DDTC and BIS will now review the comments received and\npresumably make modifications to the original proposals.  It will\nlikely take several months before both agencies respond to the\ncomments that they've received.\n\n[ANS thanks Barry WD4ASW for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Leadership from AMSAT and ARRL to be on-hand for EAA\nAirventure ARISS contact\n\nARISS International Chair and AMSAT V.P. for Human Spaceflight,\nFrank Bauer, KA3HDO and ARISS U.S. delegate for the ARRL, Rosalie\nWhite, K1STO, will be supporting this week’s ARISS Contact in Oshkosh\nWisconsin at Airventure, the Experimental Aircraft Association’s\n(EAA) annual airshow and convention, which normally hosts 500,000\nvisitors each year.  Possessing private pilot and amateur radio\nlicenses, Frank and Rosalie independently planned to attend\nAirventure this year, long before the ARISS contact was planned.  “My\nwife Janet and I have attended Airventure 3 years straight,” Frank\nstated.  “It is an outstanding opportunity for us to immerse\nourselves in all things aviation.  And it enables me to hone one of\nmy other passions, amateur photography.  When Rosalie and I heard\nthat a contact was planned for Airventure and we learned that we were\nboth planning a trip to Airventure, we jumped at the chance to mentor\nthe EAA team.”\n\nWhile they will plan to keep a bustling agenda of “all-things\naviation,” Frank, Janet and Rosalie will be focused on the ARISS\ncontact.   Planned for 12:01 CT on August 1, the contact will be\nconducted using the telebridge station AH6NM at the Sacred Hearts\nSchool in Hawaii.  ISS astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, plans to be\nat the microphone during the contact.  The ARISS contact will be held\nas part of EAA’s Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM)\ninitiative, where the focus on August 1 is space—past present and the\nfuture.  Students attending the contact will include 125 women and\ntheir mentors from the EAA’s Women Sour group and students from\nFlabob Airport High School and Lakeland Aviation High School.\nSeveral former astronauts will also on-hand for the contact,\nincluding Charlie Precourt, KB5YSQ, who supported SAREX (STS-55 & STS-\n71), Jim Voss, who supported ARISS (Expedition 2) and Kent Rominger.\nThey will share their experiences as former astronauts and leaders in\nNASA’s Commercial Crew program.  They will also provide the students\na unique view of what it is like to perform SAREX and ARISS contacts\nfrom orbit.\n\nARISS is an international STEM outreach program that is jointly\nsponsored in the U.S. by NASA, ARRL and AMSAT-NA.\n\n[ANS thanks Frank KA3HDO for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nJuly/August AMSAT Journal is Ready\n\nThe July/August 2013 AMSAT Journal has been sent to the print shop.\nThey are getting geared up for the production printing run. It should\narrive at your QTH in a few weeks. Thanks for all the help from the\nJournal's editorial team: Bernhard VA6BMJ, Mike K4ERA, and Douglas\nKA2UPW/5.\n\nIn this issue you will find:\n\n+ Apogee View Column by AMSAT President Barry Baines\n+ AMSAT-Rochester Institute of Technology Academic Team Complete\n  Fox-2 MPPT Prototype\n+ Fox-1 Attitude Determination Experiment Simulator\n+ A Full-Duplex VHF-UHF Satellite System Using SDR\n+ NASA-Built Nanosatellite Launch Adaptor System Ready for Flight\n+ AMSAT Forum at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention\n+ 2013 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting Announcement\n+ AMSAT on Campus - Development of the Penn State\n  Supercapacitor Power System\n+ Thanks to AMSAT's 2013 Dayton Hamvention Volunteers!\n+ Photo Gallery: AMSAT at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention\n\n[ANS thanks JoAnne K9JKM for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Has Been Mailed\n\nBallots were mailed to members in good standing by July 15th, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office no later than the close of\nbusiness on September 15th, 2013. If you have not received your ballot\nby August 5th, please contact the AMSAT Office. Ballots sent to\nmembers outside North America are automatically sent via air mail.  It\nis suggested that they be returned the same way.\n\nThis year there are eight candidates running for the AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors.  The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes\nwill be seated as voting Board Members with two year terms.  The two\ncandidates receiving the next highest number of votes will be\nnon-voting Alternate Board Members with terms of one year.  Please\nvote for no more than four candidates.\n\nAMSAT-NA Board candidates in alphabetical order by last name:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nAlan Biddle, WA4SCA\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nFrank Griffin, K4FEG\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nBrian Klofas, KF6ZEO\nJoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM\nTony Monteiro, AA2TX\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSTRaND-1 Heard After 113 Days of Silence\n\nGraham Shirville, G3VZV, announced on the AMSAT-BB that Mike DK3WN\nhas just reported hearing STRaND-1 and decoding telemetry this\nevening. The spacecraft has been silent since March 31st so this is\nreally good news.\n\nI am certain that the project leader, Dr Chris Bridges, who\npresented a paper about STRaND-1 at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium last\nSunday, would be really pleased to receive any and all reports from\nother amateurs around the world.\n\nMike has an info page about this spacecraft here:\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/sat/afu/sat_strand.shtml\n\nSTRaND-1 transmits on frequency of 437.568 MHz (+/- 10 kHz Doppler)\n\nPlease send your reports to C.P.Bridges at surrey.ac.uk\n\nA video of the presentation on STRaND-1 given on July 21 by Chris\nBridges M6OBC / M0GKK to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium\ncan be seen via:\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/07/23/uk-strand-1-cubesat-is-back/\n\nDownload the video by right-clicking on\nhttp://www.batc.tv/vod/strand.flv\n\nSee the report from Mike Rupprecht DK3WN\nhttp://www.dk3wn.info/p/?p=35582\n\nSTRaND-1 information\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/\n\nHow to decode the telemetry\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/satellites/strand-1/strand-1-telemetry/\n\n[ANS thanks Graham G3VZV, Mike DK3WN and Trevor M5AKA for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSlime Mold Satellite gets into the media\n\nA brief mention of the Slime Mold CubeSat posted last March on the\nAMSAT-UK and Southgatearc.org sites has been picked up by one of the\nSpace.Com website writers, Leonard David, who has written a good\narticle which retained a mention of amateur radio.\n\nIt's Summer in the northern hemisphereand media outlets can be short\nof stories at this time of year so Leonards story has in turn been\npicked up by a few other news outlets and hopefully that will spread.\nI guess the thought of Slime in Space captures the imagination.Most\nof the resulting stories seem to have retained the mention of amateur\nradio.\n\nYou can read Leonard David's article at\nhttp://www.space.com/21982-space-slime-grows-mold-tiny-satellite.html\n\nMarch AUK mention\nhttp://amsat-uk.org/2013/03/15/teikyosat-3-slime-mold-from-space/\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nQB50: Ham Radio transponder payloads to launch 2014\n\nIt was announced during the QB50 presentation at the AMSAT-UK\nInternational Space Colloquium that\ntwo CubeSats, carrying SSB/CW and FM voice transponders should be\nlaunched into a 600 km orbit in the first half of 2014\n\nThe QB50 project team has announced that on July 19, 2013 they\nsigned a Memorandum of Understanding with AMSAT-UK, AMSAT-\nFrancophone, and AMSAT-NL to enable two amateur radio payloads to fly\non two 2-Unit CubeSats in the first half of 2014.\n\nThese precursor CubeSats, which have still to be named, will be\nplaced into a conventional 600 km 98o orbit in advance of the main\nmission. This allows for the testing of key satellite and payload\ncomponents ahead of the full QB50 mission.\n\nIn addition, the precursor mission allows for experimentation and\nvalidation of operational concept of the QB50 mission. Next to these\nobjectives the amateur radio payloads will be operated as well. At\nthe beginning of the mission, the various payloads onboard the\nspacecraft will be operated in an alternating fashion, whilst the\namateur radio payloads will be operated as the primary payload of the\nspacecraft once all QB50 related experimentation has been concluded.\n\nThe main mission of QB50 has the scientific objective to study in\nsitu the temporal and spatial variations of a number of key\nconstituents and parameters in the lower thermosphere (90-320 km)\nwith a network of about 40 double CubeSats.\n\nThese, university built, CubeSats will be launched into a 320km\ncircular orbit, will be separated by a few hundred kilometres and\ncarry identical science sensors. The sensors will monitor parameters\nthat will greatly increase our knowledge and understanding of this\nlittle explored region of the E and F layers of the Ionosphere.\n\nQB50 will also study the re-entry process by measuring a number of\nkey parameters during re-entry and by comparing predicted and actual\nCubeSat trajectories and orbital lifetimes.\n\nThe AMSAT-Francophone (AMSAT-F) payload for one of the satellites\nwill be an FM voice relay with VHF uplink and UHF downlink. It will\nalso transmit FX25 telemetry at 9.6kbit. This secondary payload will\nbe also used in several satellites in the main constellation as their\nmain receiver and transmitter.\n\nThe AMSAT-NL payload, on the other precursor satellite, will\nincorporate an SDR based, linear, V/U, transponder core and is being\ndesigned to allow the uploading of firmware updates to enable\nenhanced performance and functionality. It will also provide a\ntelemetry downlink at 1.2kbit using FUNcube compatible BPSK\nmodulation.\n\nThe QB50 spacecraft in the main, short duration, mission will,\ngenerally, have downlinks operating on frequencies in the 435-438 MHz\nAmateur Satellite Service allocation and some are expected to use\n2.4GHz.\nThey will be notified to the ITU as a Belgian network after having\nbeen coordinated by the IARU Frequency Coordination Panel. Some of\nthese will also, on occasions, act as FM voice relays during their\nmissions.\n\nWatch the video of the QB50 Presentation at the 2013 AMSAT-UK\nInternational Space Colloquium\nhttp://www.batc.tv/streams/amsat1308\nDirect video download http://www.batc.tv/vod/qb50.flv\n\nMore information about the QB50 project can be found at\nhttp://www.qb50.eu/\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT-UK Colloquium Videos Now Available\n\nThanks to the hard work of volunteers from the British Amateur\nTelevision Club (BATC) videos of the presentations given to the AMSAT-\nUK International Space Colloquium held in Guildford July 20-21, 2013\nare now available to view online or download to your PC.\n\nTo access them follow these steps:\n• Go to http://www.batc.tv/\n• Click on the ‘Film Archive’ icon\n• Select ‘AMSAT-UK 2013' from the Category drop down menu\n• Click ‘Select Category’\n• Select the video you wish to watch\n• Click on ‘Select Stream’\n• Click the play icon ‘>’ on the player\n• Clicking on the icon to the left of the player volume control will\ngive you full screen display.\n\nYou can also download a video file to your PC by right-clicking on\nthe ‘Click Here’ link under the player.\n\n[ANS thanks Trevor M5AKA and AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAMSAT members wave at Cassini\n\nNASA asked people to wave at the Cassini space probe which was\ntaking pictures from near Saturn. Attendees at the AMSAT-UK\nInternational Space Collquium responded enthusiastically\n\nOn Friday, July 19 between 21:27 and 21:47 UT NASA's Cassini\nspacecraft took images of Saturn, with the planet Earth in the\nbackground nearly 1.5 billion kilometers away. NASA encouraged the\npublic to look and wave in the direction of Saturn at the time of the\nportrait and share their pictures via the Internet.\n\nAMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium attendees were among the\nmany world-wide who did just that.\n\nNASA Interplanetary Probes to Take Pictures of Earth From Space\nhttp://tinyurl.com/np6v38g\n\nJPLers Wave at Saturn as Part of Worldwide Campaign\nhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-228\n\n[ANS thanks Southgate Amateur Radio News for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\nRecent Successful Contacts\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Boy Scouts of America, 2013\nNational Jamboree, Mount Hope, WV, USA and Astronaut Luca Parmitano,\nKF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-20 15:34 UTC\nand lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was direct via\nK2BSA. The ARISS mentor for the contact was W2CYK.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Colegio Urugua, El Pinar,\nUruguay and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP, using callsign NA1SS.\nThe contact began 2013-07-20 19:05 UTC and lasted about nine and a\nhalf minutes. Contact was telebridged via LU8YY. The ARISS mentors\nfor the contact were IKØWGF and IKØUSO.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between Scuola Italiana di\nMontevideo (SIM), Montevideo, Uruguay and Astronaut Luca Parmitano,\nKF5KDP using callsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-22 11:39 UTC\nand lasted about nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via\nVK5ZAI. The ARISS mentors for the contact were IKØWGF and IKØUSO.\n\n+ A Successful contact was made between ESA Space Camp 2013,\nRadstadt, Austria, and Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP using\ncallsign NA1SS. The contact began 2013-07-24 11:44 UTC and lasted\nabout nine and a half minutes. Contact was telebridged via VK4KHZ.\nThe ARISS mentor for the contact were IN3GHZ.\n\n+ A Successful simulation contact was made between Radioclub of\nLeuven, Leuven, Belgium and Alexander Gerst KF5ONO. The contact\nocurred  2013-07-22 between 18:30 and 19:30 UTC. Contact was direct\nvia ON4CP. This terrestrial contact served as a training session for\nAlexander Gerst KF5ONO, who is expected to serve as a Flight Engineer\nwith Expedition 40 scheduled to launch in April 2014.\n\n+ A Successful simulation contact was made between Radioclub of\nLeuven, Leuven, Belgium and Reid Wiseman KF5LKT. The contact ocurred\n2013-07-22 between 18:30 and 19:30] UTC and lasted about ten minutes.\nContact was direct via ON4CP. This terrestrial contact serves as a\ntraining session for Reid Wiseman KF5LKT, who is expected to serve as\na Flight Engineer with Expedition 40 scheduled to launch in April\n2014.\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n+Italian Bilingual School, Leichhardt (Sydney), NSW, Australia,\ntelebridge via VK5ZAI\nContact is a go for: Tue 2013-07-30 08:26:02 UTC\nOR\nContact is a go for: Wed 2013-07-31 07:37:40 UTC\n\n+Oshkosh Air Venture Air Show, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, telebridge via\nAH6NM\nContact is a go for: Thu 2013-08-01 17:01:31 UTC\n\n+Space Jam 7 at the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, IL,\ntelebridge via LU8YY\nContact is a go for: Sat 2013-08-03 20:46:15\n\nARISS is requesting listener reports for the above  contacts. Due\nto issues with the Kenwood radio that are not fully  understood at\npresent, the Ericsson radio is going to be used for these  contacts.\nARISS thanks everyone in advance for their  assistance.\n\nLooking  for something new to do?  How about receiving DATV from the\nISS? If  interested, then please review the document provided by\nGaston Bertels ON4WF, the ARISS-Europe  Chairman.\n\nhttp://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/HamTV.pdf\n\nCrew members currently onboard the ISS\n\nExp.  35/36 on orbit\nPavel Vinogradov RV3BS\nAleksandr Misurkin\nChristopher J.  Cassidy KF5KDR\n\nExp. 36/37 on orbit\nFyodor Yurchikhin  RN3FI\nKaren L. Nyberg\nLuca Parmitano  KF5KDP\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Charlie AJ9N and Dave AA4KN for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n+++ Satellite Operation from Guernsey\n\n>From Peter Goodhall via AMSAT-BB\n\nHi All,\n\nJust a quick note to say that from the 24th of July till the 30th of\nJuly, I will be active sporadically on satellite passes from Guernsey\n(IN89RL) as 2U0SQL.\n\nI shall be focusing on FO-29 and SO-50 passes but no firm pass times,\nbut hopefully will have internet access and will try posting on\nTwitter (@2E0SQL) when I'll be on.\n\nDue to this being camping I will be battery powered using a FT-817 and\nan Arrow antenna.\n\nIf anyone needs a QSL Card its direct to 2E0SQL or bureau.\n\n+++ iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch 'Satellite Explorer Pro' app\n\n>From Tom Doyle via AMSAT-BB\n\niPhone, iPad, iPod Touch 'Satellite Explorer Pro' app is available\nin the Apple app store. It is free.\nVideo:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRM16bIucQ8\n\n+++ Gospodin Murphy was right!\n\n>From Alan WA4SCA via AMSAT-BB\n\nAn interesting article on the recent launch failure of a Proton-M:\nhttp://preview.tinyurl.com/kt5x9hw\nThe latest in a long line of bizarre, expensive errors in the world\nlaunch business.\n\n+++ D-STAR AMSAT User's Net\n\nD-STAR AMSAT User's Net meets Thursday Evenings @ 01:00 UTC / 20:00\nCDT, Reflector 60B\nhttps://sites.google.com/site/memphisdstar/d-satellite-amsat-net\nIf you do not have a d star radio or dv dongle ,you can still\ncheckin using  drats , The down load is on the above link Meet us in\nthe \"dratsamsat\" chat room. For more information contact\nDamon WA4HFN, wa4hfn at comcast dot net\n\n+++ July/August Issue of SatMagazine Is Now Online\n\nDownload it in PDF format from http://www.satmagazine.com/\n\n+++ DARPA Seeks to Eliminate GPS Dependence\n\nThe same impulse that led to the invention of GPS now has engendered\na drive to beget non-GPS. Because of vulnerability to jamming,\nspoofing, and other intentional or unintentional modifications of\nposition, orientation, and time information, DARPA has put forth a\nnew goal \"to completely eliminate dependence on GPS or any other\nexternal signals during the mission and rely solely on self-contained\nsolutions such as inertial navigation.\"\nRead more at http://tinyurl.com/ms8t6yz\n\n[ANS Thanks Alan Cameron and GPS World for the above information]\n\n+++ AMSAT Mentions in the Press\n\nWorld Radio Online August 2013\n\nCarole Perry's WB2MPG article \"Great Expectations Fulfilled\" is\nabout presenters at Dayton's Youth Forum. In his forum presentation,\n\"Getting Started with Amateur Radio Satellites\" Young Ben Jacobs\nKC9RO recommends \"... http://amsat.org as the best resource for more\ninformation.\"\n\nIn his column \"Amateur Satellites\" Terry Douds N8KI mentions AMSAT's\nYouTube Channel, the upcoming AMSAT Space Symposium in Houston, and\nthe Fox-1 launch announcement.\n\nCQ VHF Spring 2013\n\nCQ VHF many articles related amateur radio satellites. Catch Hector\nMartinez's CO6CBF \"Working Satellites with a Homebrew Setup Cuban\nStyle\" He retools his presentation from last year's Symposium.\n\nIn Christopher Friesen's VE4CWF \"Building The Slap Shot - A\nHockeyStick Satellite Antenna\" He suggests \"... with AMSAT working on\ntwo satellites, and plans to depoly them in the next few years, now\nis the time to build a satellite antenna and begin operating.\"\n\nKeith Pugh W5IU offers \"What to do While Waiting for the Next\nSatellite or the next Band Opening\". Amongs other activities he\nmentions the Dayton Hamvention Forums, the Houston AMSAT Space\nSymposium November 1, the AMSAT UK Space Colloqium which just\nfinished up and makes an appeal to continue to \"... support AMSAT's\nplans for the future of amateur radio satellites,\" as well as\nrefering to AMSAT's newly designed web page at http://www.amsat.org.\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,\nEMike McCardel, KC8YLD\nkc8yld at amsat dot org\n\n",
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