[amsat-bb] JAMSAT and P3E News

Peter Gülzow, DB2OS reports on the DL Web site that JAMSAT (Japan) has made a generation donation of 1,000,000JPY (7500.00 euro) in support of the AMSAT P3-E satellite project.

He went on to say that Mikio Mouri, president of JAMSAT is working on the structure of a command station for P3-E in Japan. There is close cooperation with the University for communications technology and the radio observatory in Sugadaira/Nagano to re-equip their 4m parabolic antenna for command use with P3-E in the 23cm and 13cm-Band.

You can read the entire release (German) here:

http://www.amsat-dl.org//index.php? option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=35&Itemid=97

Congrats to JAMSAT for their strong support of amateur radio in space!