November 2013 - AMSAT-BB - mailman.amsat.org

Houston Fantastic
by Nick Pugh K5QXJ 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Thanks to all for a fantastic symposium in Houston and looking forward to next year in the DC area Thanks nick Office 337 593 8700 Cell 337 258 2527 Helping UL become a world Class Engineering and Educational School

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UK FUNCube Forum Announced
by E. Michael McCardel 04 Nov '13

04 Nov '13

Start getting ready for the FUNCube launch and please share this information with a teacher. http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/03/funcube-forum/ EMike, KC8YLD Sent from my iPad

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Art and Ham Radio in Deep Space
by M5AKA 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Students at the Tama Art University are planning to send a sculpture ARTSAT2 DESPATCH along with a 435 MHz amateur radio payload into deep space. http://amsat-uk.org/2013/11/03/art-and-ham-radio-in-deep-space/ ---- 73 Trevor M5AKA AMSAT-UK website http://amsat-uk.org/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/AMSAT-UK/208113275898396 Twitter https://twitter.com/AMSAT_UK ----

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AMSAT Annual Meeting on Echolink
by EMike McCardel 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

The AMSAT Annual meeting will be broadcast over Echolink today (Saturday November 2) at 3:45-5:15pm CDT Connect to the *AMSAT* conference server, node number 101377 EMike McCardel, KC8YLD VP for Educational Relations AMSAT-NA Sent from my iPhone

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ANS-306 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin - Annual Meeting Via Echolink Today
by JoAnne Maenpaa 02 Nov '13

02 Nov '13

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE SPECIAL BULLETIN ANS-306 In this edition: * 2013 AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting Simulcast Today via Echolink SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-306.01 ANS-306 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin AMSAT News Service Bulletin 306.01 >From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD. DATE November 2, 2013 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-306.01 The AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting will be simulcast today, Saturday, November 2 at 15:45 - 17:15 CDT (UTC-5) via the AMSAT Echolink node 101377. AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW will give his annual President's Report during this time. [ANS thanks the 2013 Symposium Committee for the above information] /EX

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AO-27 recovery operations underway
by Paul Stoetzer 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

>From the website (http://www.ao27.org/AO27/) Oct 29th, 2013 Recovery operations are underway again for AO-27. We will try to keep the website up to date with any infomation. - Michael, N3UC We could definitely use another FM bird, so let's hope they are able to get it going again. Maybe I'm a good luck charm - I just sent a QSL card to N5TRR for my last QSO on AO-27, just minutes before it failed last year, stating "Last operational orbit of AO-27" in the comment field. I'd be happy to be wrong about that! 73, Paul, N8HM

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FUNcube Slide Presentation
by David A B Johnson 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi, I made a presentation on FUNcube at the RSGB Convention a couple of weeks ago and several people have asked for a set. Instead of emailing them out, we have put the on the FUNcube web site in the working documents page: http://funcube.org.uk/working-documents/ 73 - Dave, G4DPZ

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remailer
by Jim Sanford 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

All: Anything up with the remailer? Just got a bounce on 2 emails I sent to somebody @amsat.org: host inbound.ucsd.edu[132.239.0.180]: 550 #5.7.1 Your access to submit messages to this e-mail system has been rejected. Thanks & 73, Jim wb4gcs(a)amsat.org --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

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Spam through amsat.org
by Phil Karn 31 Oct '13

31 Oct '13

A significant fraction of the spam I get on my primary email account comes by way of the amsat.org email reflector; by my count, 18 of the 76 spam emails I've received in the last day. But I don't want to just shut it off; sometimes people I do want to hear from make contact that way. And I've used it to contact others whose email addresses I don't know, but who I know to be AMSAT members. I wonder if it would be possible to set up some sort of auto-responder on amsat.org so that instead of just forwarding email, returns a message to the sender with a non-machine-readable image of the user's actual email address, possibly accompanied with a sound file with the same information for anyone with impaired vision. Spammers couldn't handle it, especially since most don't even use valid return addresses. But any real human could resend his email directly to its destination. What do people think of this idea? How much of a problem is spam for everyone else here? Phil

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