Hello Everyone,

This is a call for YOUR input about your amateur satellite projects, achievements, and on-the-air activities. All news is invited ... if you got something to work, an event is planned or have a new idea for research other amateur satellite operators will want to know about it!

Since the AMSAT-BB serves best as a forum for questions and and answers and last minute announcements we offer two addi- tional venues for publication:

1. ANS - AMSAT News Service + Are you or your club planning a satellite activity? + Perhaps testing a transponder via a balloon launch? + Your university just got approval for a CubeSat? + You just made a 7000 km contact via LEO? + You just got state #50 ... or VUCC? + Is there going to be a satellite demo at your next hamfest? + AMSAT Officers and volunteers are invited to send their team's latest news and all the good things going on within AMSAT. + Area Coordinators are invited to tell us how you are getting the word out.

Short term news will be sent via the AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins (ANS list). To get your message into an ANS bulletin just send an e-mail with the information to ans-editor@amsat.org.

The deadline for the weekly bulletins is by Thursday evening of each week.

The ANS editors will do the formatting ... all you need to do is send your e-mail!

2. The AMSAT Journal This bi-monthly publication by AMSAT-NA is one of the primary benefits of AMSAT membership. This print edition includes text, graphics, and photographs.

The Journal staff welcomes technical input about your: + Satellite Station design + Satellite antenna projects + Satellite operations ... decoded telemetry and data showing operational trends + The Journal is an excellent place to publish your University's cubesat design + AMSAT Officers and volunteers are invited to write detailed updates about projects and AMSAT plans and project status.

For the AMSAT Journal we need your articles provided as either plain text or MS-Word format. You do not need to worry about magazine column formatting since this will be done by our layout software prior to publication.

Send photos and graphics as separate JPG files in as high resolution as you can save them in.

Articles and items for the Journal are due by the 15th of the odd number months ... January, March, May, July, Sept- ember, November.

Send your submissions to the AMSAT Journal to: journal@amsat.org

I'll be glad to work with you to develop your ideas and assist you every step of the way in getting published via ANS or The AMSAT Journal. You can reach me at the e-mail address below.

-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org Editor, AMSAT News Service Copy Editor, AMSAT Journal