For those of you who are attending the Symposium there is a new feature we are going to try this year called BOFS - Birds Of a Feather Sessions. BOFS are generally free-form meetings that are held after-hours and may be called by anyone wishing to start a discussion group. They have been common at software conferences I've gone to in the past and were very popular. An example of a BOF for the AMSAT Symposium might be to start a discussion about groundstation antennas.
I have set aside two rooms (one holding 12 people, another holding 20) beginning at 6pm on Friday evening.
The procedure is pretty straightforward:
1) Develop a title for your BOF - say "Homebrew Groundstation Antennas" 2) Estimate the amount of time you would like for your BOF - BOFS usually last 30 minutes or an hour 3) Go to the registration desk and tell someone there that you want to start a BOF. They will give you a flip-chart sized (2 foot by 3 foot) Post-It note and assign you a room and time. 4) Write your title, time and room on the large Post-It note and tack it on the wall outside of the Symposium meeting room.
And that's it!
73,
Emily
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Emily,
Not sure if you maintain the pages or not, but you can add this for the HISTORY page on my satellites.
Thanks Bob
----------------------------- ANDE
ANDE was deployed 21 Dec 2006 from the payload bay of STS-116 and after an hour or so of being stuck in its cannister, finally separated and became operational as ANDE-1 and ANDE-2 with an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. It is a project of the US Naval Academy
The Satellite Status is fully operational
For additional information please see http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
----------------------------- RAFT
RAFT was deployed 21 Dec 2006 from the payload bay of STS-116 but separated with a hig tumble rate of over 39 RPM. It had slowed to 25 RPM a month later. It has a weak signal, but supports an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. It also has a packet-to-voice synthesizer, a PSK-31 transpodner with 28.120 LSB uplink and aradar fence receiver on 216.98 MHz. It is a project of the US Naval Academy
The Satellite Status is currently operational
For additional information please see http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
Hi Bob. I take care of that now so I'll add it to the db today.
Thanks!
Eric KF4OTN
Robert Bruninga wrote:
Emily,
Not sure if you maintain the pages or not, but you can add this for the HISTORY page on my satellites.
Thanks Bob
ANDE
ANDE was deployed 21 Dec 2006 from the payload bay of STS-116 and after an hour or so of being stuck in its cannister, finally separated and became operational as ANDE-1 and ANDE-2 with an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. It is a project of the US Naval Academy
The Satellite Status is fully operational
For additional information please see http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
RAFT
RAFT was deployed 21 Dec 2006 from the payload bay of STS-116 but separated with a hig tumble rate of over 39 RPM. It had slowed to 25 RPM a month later. It has a weak signal, but supports an APRS digipeater on 145.825 MHz. It also has a packet-to-voice synthesizer, a PSK-31 transpodner with 28.120 LSB uplink and aradar fence receiver on 216.98 MHz. It is a project of the US Naval Academy
The Satellite Status is currently operational
For additional information please see http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/ande-raft-ops.html
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