Hi Joanne,
It has been a great weekend at the colloquium meeting old friends, making new ones and watching really interesting presentations. From a personal point of view, it has been a pleasure to prepare the programme of speakers for over 7 years but this was my last time and the committee is looking for someone to pick up the reigns.
The FUNCube project announcement kept a closely guarded secret before the event and we've been very pleased with the feedback and educational outreach ideas we've had just this weekend. As with all AMSAT projects any offers of help would be very welcome.
It was good to see Drew and Peter this year and get an update of the AMSAT-NA & AMSAT-DL activities, respectively.
73
Dave
The committee JoAnne Maenpaa wrote:
Hello David, and everyone,
AMSAT-UK has announced a new amateur satellite project - FUNcube ... received major initial funding from the Radio Communications Foundation (RCF)
First, congratulations to AMSAT-UK on your exciting new project!
This is an excellent example of the premise that AMSAT needs to create a mission that excites possible funding sources ... with a positive side effect that Amateur Radio gets to use a new linear transponder in orbit.
Well done!
73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org
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