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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/ZEJTWZSDH4SQ2O2NN3XZZEIGTDRLXXFL/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "ZEJTWZSDH4SQ2O2NN3XZZEIGTDRLXXFL", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/ZEJTWZSDH4SQ2O2NN3XZZEIGTDRLXXFL/?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": "[ans] ANS-171 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins", "date": "2016-06-19T04:11:56Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-171\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* 2016 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced\n* May/June 2016 Issue of The AMSAT Journal Sent To Press\n* Amateur Radio Geostationary Satellite Phase 4B Information\n* ISRO PSLV-C34 will Launch 20 Satellites from Space Centre at Andhra \nPradesh\n June 22\n* Data Modes on Ham Radio Satellites\n* LibreCube Initiative Invites Comments on CubeSat PC Board Standardization\n* Special Calls From Brazil on the Satellites\n* Special Event Station K1D to Operate Satellites on Field Day 2016\n* ARISS Delivers the Excitement of Space Exploration to UK Students\n* NASA Astronaut Scott Tingle Earns Amateur Radio License, KG5NZA\n* AMSAT Events\n* ARISS News\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-171.01\nANS-171 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 171.01\n >From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.\nDATE June 19, 2016\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-171.01\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2016 Candidates for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Announced\n\n\nThe 2016 candidates, in alphabetical order by last names are:\n\nTom Clark, K3IO\nClayton Coleman, W5PFG\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nBruce Paige, KK5DO\nPaul Stoetzer, N8HM\n\nThis year AMSAT-NA will be electing three voting members of the Board\nof Directors. These will go to the three candidates receiving the\nhighest number of votes. In addition, there will be two alternates\nchosen, based on the next highest number of votes received.\n\nBallots will be mailed to the AMSAT-NA membership by July 15, 2016 and\nmust be received at the AMSAT office by September 15, 2016 in order to\nbe counted. Those sent outside North America will go by air mail. If\nyou have not received your ballot package in a reasonable time for\nyour location, please contact the AMSAT office. Completed ballots\nshould be returned as promptly as possible, and those from outside\nNorth America preferably by air mail.\n\nElection of Board members is both an obligation as well as an\nopportunity by our membership to help shape the future direction of\nAMSAT. Please take the time to review the candidate statements that\nwill accompany the ballot and determine who you wish to see on the\nBoard. You have the option to vote for up to three candidates.\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA Secretary, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nMay/June 2016 Issue of The AMSAT Journal Sent To Press\n\n\nThe May/June 2016 issue of The AMSAT Journal has gone to press and\nshould be arriving in member's mailboxes soon.\n\nIn this issue:\n*Dateline Dayton - Notes from Hamvention 2016 - Joe Kornowski, KB6IGK\nand Keith Baker, KB1SF/VA3KSF\n*Tom Clark, K3IO, Receives ARRL President's Award\n*GNU Radio Companion Protoype for a Dual Analog/Digtal Transponder\nSystem for the AMSAT GEO Mission - Dr. William C. Headley, KM4KAL, Dr.\nRobert McGwier, N4HY, and Dr. Tom Clark, K3IO\n*Orbital Debrief - Paul Stoetzer, N8HM\n*Member Footprints - John Smith, KI4RO\n*An Arduino Controlled GPS Corrected VFO - Gene Marcus, W3PM/GM4YRE\n*On the Grids - Melvin C. Vye, W8MV\n*AMSAT Activites at Greater Houston Hamfest 2016 - Allen F. Mattis,\nN5AVF and Andy MacAllister, W5ACM\n*GOTA Station Demos Satellites to Over 400 Students - Richard Siff, WA4BUE\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA Secretary, Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, for the\nabove information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nAmateur Radio Geostationary Satellite Phase 4B Information\n\nAt website hosted by the Hume Center for National Security and Technology\nat Virginia Tech lists the relevant information available for the Phase 4B\nHEO Satellite. The beginning parts of the brochure state:\n\nHands on, Minds on; RF and Security Research at Virginia Tech:\n• On-orbit learning laboratory to develop new capabilities in satellite\n communications and amateur radio\n• Digital protocols to enable push-to-talk, WiFi, streaming video, etc.\n• Onboard processing - geolocation, co-channel, machine learning\n• App development and real time experimentation\n• Beam steering and coordinated collection\n• User authentication and prioritization\n• Open cryptography\n\nAMSAT Phase4B Project Program Specifications:\n• SDR-based 5 & 10 GHz amateur satellite payload being designed to take\n advantage of a geosynchronous launch opportunity\n• Rideshare opportunity on the US Air Force Remote Sensing Program Office\n Wide Field of View (WFOV) geosynchronous satellite being designed by\n Millennium Space Systems\n• Software-defined radio (SDR) payload from Rincon Research Corporation\n\nDr. McGwier has promised upcoming articles for the AMSAT Journal and QST.\n\nsee the full description at:\nhttp://www.hume.vt.edu/geo/\n\n\n[ANS thanks Bob McGwier, N4HY, and the Hume Center for National Security\nand Technology at Virginia Tech, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nISRO PSLV-C34 will Launch 20 Satellites from Space Centre at Andhra Pradesh\nJune 22\n\nThe Indian Space Agency has announced that it would be launching twenty\nsatellites from its Sriharikota barrier Island base off the southeast coast\non June 22.\n\nAccording to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), the Indian \nrocket\nPolar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will lift off from Sriharikota in\nAndhra Pradesh with 20 satellites at 9.25 am that day. While the rocket’s\nmain cargo will be India’s 725.5 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth\nobservation, the other 19 satellites weighing around 560 kg are from \nCanada,\nGermany, Indonesia and the United States as well as one satellite each from\nSathyabama University, Chennai, and the College of Engineering, Pune, said\nthe Indiatoday.in report.\n\nThe satellites will be launched from the second launch pad with a total\npayload of 1,288 kg. The whole mission will take approximately 26 \nminutes for\nits completion. The images sent by the Cartosat satellite will be useful \nfor\ncartographic, urban, rural, coastal land use, water distribution and other\napplications. The Cartosat series of satellites was originated in India and\nis a part of Indian Remote Sensing Program.\n\nAccording to Indiatoday.in, the Swayam satellite weighing 1kg from Pune \nwill\nprovide point-to-point messaging services to the HAM radio community.\nHAM Radio, or Amateur Radio, is a popular service that brings people,\nelectronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across\ntown, around the world, or even into space, all without the Internet or\nmobile phones.\n\nThe 1.5 kg Sathyabamasat from Sathyabama University will collect data on\ngreenhouse gases.\n\nSatellite Uplink Downlink Beacon Mode\n------------ ------- -------- ------- ---------------\nBEESAT-4 . 435.950 435.950 4800bps GMSK,CW\nBIROS . 437.525 . 4800bps GMSK\nLAPAN-A3 435.880 145.880 145.825 FM,APRS\nMax Valier . 145.860 145.960 CW\nSathyabamasat . 145.980 . 2400bps BPSK\nSwayam COEP . 437.025 437.025 1200bps BPSK,CW\nVenta-1 . . 437.325 CW\n------------ ------- -------- ------- ---------------\n\nsee\nhttp://www.newsgram.com/in-a-single-mission-on-june-22-isro-will-launch-20-\nsatellites-from-space-centre-at-andhra-pradesh/\n\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2016/05/25/amateur-satellite-launch-from-india/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and newsgram.com for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nData Modes on Ham Radio Satellites\n\n\nTony Bombardiere, K2MO has released a video showing operation of PSK31,\nPSK63, and Hellshreiber on the amateur radio satellites.\n\nHe demonstrates WinPSK and IZ8BLY’s Hellschreiber which both have satellite\ncapabilities. Essentially, the applications make it easy for the operator\nto monitor digital signals on the satellites downlink while simultaneously\ntransmitting on the satellites uplink; it’s accomplished by utilizing the\nsound cards full-duplex operation.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaaHy02g9cM\nhttps://amsat-uk.org/2016/06/17/data-modes-on-ham-radio-satellites/\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-UK and Tony Bombardiere, K2MO, for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nLibreCube Initiative Invites Comments on CubeSat PC Board Standardization\n\n\nOn June 16 Cubesat.org announced on their [email protected] e-mail list\nthat the LibreCube Initiative, a community-driven initiative to provide\nopen source solutions for space and earth exploration, is seeking input\nto formalize the mechanical specification of the stacked PC/104 circuit\nboards utilized in most CubeSat designs.\n\nThe LibreSat project invites inline comments into the draft document:\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1vEx4Wg5NjpI21a7JNdPjHnXPRjmNMTzArlYTK1sg\n1Ng/edit?usp=sharing\n\nYou may also discuss about it in the forum:\nhttp://librecube.net/forums/topic/librecube-board-specification/\n\nWhen finalized, this specification shall become binding for future LibreCube\nopen source CubeSat projects, but may be useful to other members of the\nCubeSat community as well.\n\nMore information about the LibreCube project can be found on their web page:\nhttp://www.librecube.net\n\nThe e-mail contact provided on the announcement is:\nEmail: [email protected]\n\n\n[ANS thanks CubeSat.org and LibreCube.net for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpecial Calls From Brazil on the Satellites\n\n\nThe Brazilian Amateur Radio Satellite Community of ARSATC, is celebrating\nits first \"birthday\" on the air with the calls ZV8SAT, ZX9SAT, ZV1SAT, and\nZV2SAT until the end of the month. They will be QRV on the Satellites; QSL\nfor all calls via PT9BM and LoTW. More information is on-line at:\nhttp://www.arsatc.org/home.html\n\n\n[ANS thanks the DXNL 1993 - June 15, 2016 DX Newsletter for the above\ninformation]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpecial Event Station K1D to Operate Satellites on Field Day 2016\n\n\nField Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 1800 UTC\nSaturday and running through 2059 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2016 is June 25-26.\n\nIn an effort to encourage more kids and their families to get involved in\nthe hobby, the kids at Ham Radio (dot) World are working to put an all-kids\nSpecial Event ARRL Field Day station on the air in 2016. This station will\nhave the special event call sign of K1D and it will be set-up, operated, and\nput away by kids who are ham radio operators. Kids of all ages and their\nparents (both licensed hams and non-hams alike) are encouraged to come out\nand participate in this exciting event. New hams and even non-hams can\nexperience the excitement of talking to people around the world with the\nGet On the Air (GOTA) station, which will have the callsign K4G. Both \nstations\nwill operate from grid EL99IA in Deland, Florida, USA.\n\nThe kids will be on the HF bands and on the Amateur Radio satellites. \nK1D will\nbe joined by AMSAT’s Vice-President Operations, Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, who\nwill be a kid-for-a-day to help get the kids on the linear satellites. Look\nfor them and give them a shout!\n\nThe K1D Special Event Field Day station will be built by the kids prior to\nthe Field Day activities. The kids have built a solar power solution–from\nscratch–to use to power their K1D Special Event Field Day station. Kyocera\nSolar and West Mountain Radio have graciously donated parts to this solar\npower supply – THANK YOU! They also plan on using a Genasun MPPT Charge\nController to manage charging the battery. Emmett of Radiowavz.com is\nproviding a Sentinel Expedition Hex Beam for K1D. Finally, the kids have\nbuilt their own W7FG True Ladder Line antenna with parts provided by\nTrueLadderLine.com and are building additional antennas to use for Field\nDay. Keep watching Ham Radio (dot) World for videos of the kids as they\nbuild their Special Event Station.\n\nJoin WX4TVJ (Zechariah), who was licensed at 12 years old,\nAE4FH (Faith Hannah), who was licensed at 10 years old, KM4IPF (Hope),\nwho was licensed at 8 years old, & 7 year old Grace (KM4TXT)for Field Day\n2016. Listen for them on the air and give them a break by making K1D one\nof your 2016 Field Day contacts.\n\nFor helping to encourage youth in amateur radio, stations who work K1D\nand/or K4G during the 2016 ARRL Field Day will be eligible for a special\nK1D/K4G Commemorative QSL card.\n\nMore information at\nhttp://hamradio.world/\n\n\n[ANS thanks James, WX4TV for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Delivers the Excitement of Space Exploration to UK Students\n\n\nTwo stories shared in UK media capture the excitement and reward of the\nUK’s ARISS ham radio operations team’s efforts in connection with Tim \nPeake’s\nPrincipia Mission.\n\nCarole Cadwalladr, a writer from The Guardian (a UK national newspaper) was\npresent for the ARISS contact on May 9 at The King’s School, Ottery St. \nMary\nin Devon, UK. In the Sunday, May 29 edition, she posted a story that\nbeautifully captures the spirit of space adventure and how the ARISS \nprogram\nbrings that excitement to students, their educators, and their communities\nin profound ways. The story is at:\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/29/tim-peake-ground-control-\nrevive-science-interest-schools-space\n\nTXFactor produced a documentary about the ARISS program’s interface with\nTim Peake’s Principia Mission. The documentary describes the process UK\nschools undertook to apply for a scheduled radio interview with Peake,\nand preparations for the contact opportunity by the King’s School in Devon.\nIt details the station set up by the ARISS UK Operations team which\naccomplished successful radio contacts between 10 UK schools during Peake's\nPrincipia endeavor. Seven of these ten contacts included the reception of\nHamTV signals both at the school (using a mobile based ATV reception \nfacility)\nand a 3.8m dish located at the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station.\n\nWatch the video on YouTube at:\nhttp://www.txfactor.co.uk/txf011.shtml\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nNASA Astronaut Scott Tingle Earns Amateur Radio License, KG5NZA\n\n\nNASA Astronaut Scott Tingle Earns Amateur Radio License. He is now the owner\nof call sign KG5NZA and will support ARISS on upcoming ISS Expeditions 53\nand 54.\n\nNASA Astronaut Scott D. Tingle has just earned his Amateur Radio license,\npassing his exam on June 3, 2016. The FCC issued the call sign, KG5NZA, to\nhim on June 8. In January, as he began some NASA training in Russia he\nrequested the license study material. He had heard about ARISS during his\nastronaut training, and in January, decided to study on his own.\n\nThe astronaut training program runs for at least two years, is intense, and\nheavily loaded with all types of required studies, and Amateur Radio is\noptional. Tingle earned his technician license and plans to use it to\nsupport ARISS during his scheduled time on the International Space Station\nas part of the Expedition 53 crew. Launch is tentatively planned for fall\nof 2017. His stay continues into Expedition 54.\n\nTingle graduated from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 1988\nwith a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in fluid\nmechanics and propulsion. A captain in the United States Navy, he has \nserved\nas a combat pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan and has earned copious awards and\ncommendations. He was selected for the astronaut program in 2009 as one of\n14 members of NASA Astronaut Group 20, and graduated in 2011.\n\nARISS Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, said, \"The ARISS Team is excited to see\ncontinuing great interest among the Astronauts and Astronaut Candidates who\nare looking forward to supporting Amateur Radio activities through the\nARISS platform.\"\n\nAbout ARISS\n\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative\nventure of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies\nthat support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States,\nsponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American\nRadio Relay League (ARRL), and the National Aeronautics and Space\nAdministration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration\nof science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by\norganizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard\nthe ISS and students in classrooms or informal education venues. With the\nhelp of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with\nlarge audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these \nradio\ncontacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space,\nspace technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, go to:\n\nwww.ariss.org\nwww.amsat.org\nwww.arrl.org\n\nAlso, join us on Facebook:\nAmateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)\n\nFollow us on Twitter:\nARISS_status\n\n\n[ANS thanks Dave Jordan, AA4KN and ARISS 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*Wednesday, 6 July 2016 – Chehalis Valley Amateur Radio Society meeting\nin Chehalis WA\n\n*Saturday, 13 August 2016 – KL7KC Hamfest in Fairbanks AK\n\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT-NA for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS News\n\n\nSucessful Contacts\n\n* A telebridge contact via VK4KHZ with students at Briargreen Public \nSchool,\nNepean, ON, Canada was successful Mon 2016-06-13 at 15:19:15 UTC 31 deg.\nAstronaut Timothy Peake, KG5BVI answered 15 questions for an audience of \n250\nstudents along with parents and visitors.\n\nBriargreen is an amazing K-6 open-concept school nestled in a suburban\ncommunity of west Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. It is a caring community of\ndiverse students, teachers and parents, who love to share both our in-class\nand out-of-class experiences with each other. Some of our noteworthy \nspecial\nevents include our Kindergarten Chinese New Year parade, Terry Fox Run\nactivities and junior community games days. Our learning community has some\nof the most wonderful students in the world! Visit our website at\n\nbriargreenps.ocdsb.ca/Pages/home.aspx\n\n* Glenmore State High School, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia,\ntelebridge via W6SRJ\nThe ISS callsign was scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Tim Kopra KE5UDN\n\nA telebridge contact via W6SRJ with students at Glenmore State High School,\nRockhampton, Queensland, Australia was successful Mon 2016-06-06\n08:39:31 UTC 31 deg.\n\nThe audience assembled in the school’s 500 seat sports stadium. All seats\nwere filled with an additional 100 persons standing as astronaut Tim \nKopra,\nKE5UDN provided answers to questions from students.\n\nGlenmore High School is a modern, progressive secondary school providing\nquality education for students from years 7 to 12. Since its establishment\nin 1975 Glenmore High School has earned a reputation for high quality\neducational programs and services which develop a passion in students for\nlearning and life.\n\nGlenmore SHS runs an extension Science/Math program named “SCOPE” where\nstudents enroll and work through year levels at an accelerated rate, which\nallows them to finish traditional schooling early and conduct further\nstudies at our local university, to which we are partnered (Central \nQueensland\nUniversity), during their final year of schooling.\n\nStudents in the “SCOPE- Science” program are encouraged to participate \nin our\nschools astronomy club and robotics club as an extra curricula activity. \nThe\nschools astronomy club works with local primary schools, teaching about \nspace\nand running viewing evenings.\n\n* Bouze Island Elementary and Junior High School, Homeji, Japan,\ndirect via 8N3B\nThe ISS callsign was scheduled to be NA1SS\nThe scheduled astronaut was Timothy Peake KG5BVI\n\nA direct contact via 8N3B with students at Bouze Island Elementary and\nJunior High School, Homeji, Japan, was successful Sat 2016-06-04\n08:31:09 UTC 74 deg. Astronaut Timothy Peake KG5BVI answered 16 questions\nfor students and an audience of 500.\n\nWatch a video of the interview at\nhttp://www.ariss.jp/bouze/bouze.wmv\n\nBouze Island is one of the Ieshima small Islands which are located in the\nSeto Inland sea of Hyogo Prefecture in Japan. There are about 1400 people\non the island and are part of the marine products industry. They live with\nsimplicity and are friendly. But the students of this Island have not had\na chance for scientific experience as part of their school education\nbecause of their remote location. There are 140 persons in the elementary\nschool and 100 persons in the junior high school.\n\n\nUpcoming Contacts\n\n* Chuvash Republic, Russia, direct via TBD\nThe ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS\nThe scheduled astronaut is Oleg Skripochka RN3FU\nContact is a go for Sun 2016-06-19 09:30 UTC\n\n\nWatch\nhttp://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html\nfor information about upcoming contacts as they are scheduled.\n\n\n[ANS thanks ARISS, Dave, AA4KN, and Charlie, AJ9N for the above information]\n\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSatellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nAMSAT Argentina Balloon Flight with Crossband Repeater\n\nAMSAT Argentina plans a high altitude balloon launch carrying a\ncrossband repeater from Las Heras in the Mendoza province on\nJuly 9, 2016. Launch is currently planned for 10:00 AM local time,\ndepending on weather conditions. AMSAT Argentina will also present\nnews of their satellite plans.\n\nNEA-1 Repeater Information\n--------------------------\nUplink: 145.725 Mhz FM (123.0 Hz CTCSS)\nDownlink: 436.725 Mhz FM\nAPRS information will be relayed via:\nhttp://aprs.fi/?call lu7aa-1 BALLOON NEA - 1\n\n[ANS thanks AMSAT Argentina for the above information]\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", "attachments": [] }