Here is an announcement of Space Day, Saturday, May 5 at the Smithsonian
National
Air and Space Museum at the National Mall building, from their web site.
AMSAT will be exhibiting in the Milestones of Flight Gallery under
SpaceShipOne,
near the moon rock.
Everyone is invited to stop by the AMSAT demonstration. It's on a Saturday
this year and at the National Mall Air and Space Museum location.
73,
Perry, W3PK
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http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=633
Family Day
Space Day 2007
Saturday, May 05
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Throughout the National Mall building
Admission: Free
Celebrate Space Day 2007 at the National Air and Space Museum on
the National Mall!
Space Day 2007 will be another action-packed day of astronaut appearances,
hands-on activities, book signings, tours, and special stories for children,
all surrounded by the world's most famous space artifacts.
Especially exciting will be a sneak peek at the much-anticipated successor
to the space shuttle, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. This Lockheed
Martin-designed spacecraft of the future will be on view in the shadow of
one of the most historic spacecraft of the past - the Apollo 11 command
module, Columbia.
Have a blast learning how you can build your own model rocket with the
Northern Virginia Association of Rocketry. The group will bring their own
home-built rockets for you to see and lots of information on building a
flyable rocket.
Local robotics teams will show off their latest creations with a robot
petting zoo. The teams will demonstrate their expertise in building and
running robots for competition.
Participating organizations include Lockheed Martin, NASA, and AMSAT-Radio
Amateur Satellite Corporation.
Space Day 2007 at the National Air and Space Museum is made
possible by the generous support of Lockheed Martin.
I am following-up on an earlier request regarding an invitation for AMSAT
to give a presentation at a Montgomery Amateur Radio Club meeting. I have
had a lot of positive feedback from members waiting to hear more about
when this might occur.
Thank you for your attention and consideration.
Jason Foster, N3PRZ
MARC President
301-208-8663 home/office
240-994-7374 cell
n3prz(a)n3prz.com
> Hello Martha,
>
> I have many pictures, I can give someone to present... the same goes for
> Dick Daniels.
> I am not certain I will be in town to help out, therefore I can't commit
> to
> anything.
>
> All the best
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MARTHA SARAGOVITZ [mailto:amsat@verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:14 AM
> To: amsat-dc(a)amsat.org
> Cc: n3prz(a)n3prz.com
> Subject: [amsat-dc] Fw: Non-Technical Question
>
> If you are willing to handle this, please contact Jason and let me know.
> I
> don't want them to think we are not interested. 73- Martha
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AMSAT Website" <www(a)amsat.org>
> To: <martha(a)amsat.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:40 PM
> Subject: Non-Technical Question
>
>
>>
>> This message originated from the AMSAT website
>>
>> Sender: Jason Foster Email: n3prz(a)n3prz.com
>> Host: c-69-138-21-175.hsd1.md.comcast.net
>>
>> Subject: Non-Technical Question
>>
>> Message:
>> The Montgomery Amateur Radio Club, Inc. would like to invite AMSAT to
>> make a presentation at one of our club meetings. Many of our members
>> have been participants and volunteers at AMSAT, but yet many are not
>> that familiar with your organization. AMSAT is one that is on the
>> leading edge of Amateur Radio, and I would like for our members to
>> learn more about AMSAT and related topics.
>>
>> Our club meetings are held on the first and third Wednesday of each
>> month, and begin at 7:30pm. We can have you come as early as February
>> 21st, 2007. I also wish to invite anyone from your organization to
>> attend our next meeting, is a dinner meeting, and we will be at the
>> Ambrosia Grill on
>> Rt.355 (Rockville Pike) near Montgomery College. The dinner meeting
>> starts around 7:00pm, but you are welcome to come a little earlier or
>> later as desired.
>>
>> Thank you for you attention.
>> Jason Foster, N3PRZ
>> President
>> Montgomery Amateur Radio Club, Inc.
>> 301-208-8663 home/office
>> 240-994-7374 cell
>> n3prz(a)n3prz.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Phone Number: 301-208-8663 Best Time to Call: 11:00 am Eastern
>>
>> (end of message)
>>
>>
>> Problems with this message? Email to w0eec(a)amsat.org
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Via the AMSAT-DC mailing list courtesy of AMSAT-NA AMSAT-DC(a)amsat.org
> http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-dc
>
>
Hi,
Does anyone have a Hamtronics R139 APT receiver they would like to sell? If
so shoot me an email or give me a call at 301-365-0380 in the evenings.
Thanks,
Robb
WHAT A FINE MEETING and space seminar we had
today!
Perhaps those of you who were in attendance
can respond with comments about one or two of
your favorite talks or demos. Please also help
me in thanking the presenters ...
I thank you all for your participation, especially
to our speakers:
1. Scott Stevens, N3ASA, via a remote link from
some place near York, PA. With Mike Mantrose,
KA2JAI, assisting with the slides and EchoLink
connection. (11:41 - 12:05)
2. Rick Hambly, W2GPS (12:08 - 1:21)
3. Dan Schultz, N8FGV (1:23 - 1:26)
4. Bob Davis, KF4KSS (1:29 - 2:12)
5. HaoQi "Esther" Li, KI4LJD, a senior at
Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, VA,
with fellow TJHS student Nastia. FYI, you
may enjoy Esther's keen ham radio bio at
http://www.qrz.com/KI4LJD (2:17 - 2:35)
6. Charlie Heisler, K3VDB (3:04 - 3:25)
7. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR (3:28 - 4:20)
8. Heru Walmsley, W3WVV (4:57 - 5:20)
9. Tom Clark, K3IO (5:21 - 6:00)
Also, thank you to Gary Chatters, WA9ZZZ, for
serving AMSAT-DC Talk-in NCS on 146.76 MHz FM,
thank you to Charlie K3VDB and Tom K3IO for
serving as our photographers. Thank you to
Sean Barnes, N3JQ, Physics teacher at Trinity
High School for making HD video recordings
of us!
Thank you to Bob Carpenter, W3OTC, for his
awesome efforts in helping Martha in the
office for several years, and who made it
clear that more help is needed. Please
inquire within!
Thank you for those of you who helped set up
and clean up. Thanks for those who offered
excellent technical insight and advice from
the floor, especially to the students.
A great time was indeed had by all.
Respectfully submitted,
Pat Kilroy, N8PK
AMSAT Area Coordinator
and AMSAT-DC host
pat(a)patkilroy.com or n8pk(a)amsat.org ...
Either one but not both, since each address
goes to the same home.
WHAT A FINE MEETING and space seminar we had
today!
Perhaps those of you who were in attendance can
respond with comments about one or two of your
favorite talks or demos. Please also help me
in thanking the presenters ...
I thank you all for your participation, especially
to our speakers:
1. Scott Stevens, N3ASA, via a remote link from
some place near York, PA. With Mike Mantrose,
KA2JAI, assisting with the slides and EchoLink
connection. (11:41 - 12:05)
2. Rick Hambly, W2GPS. (12:08 - 1:21)
3. Dan Schultz, N8FGV. (1:23 - 1:26)
4. Bob Davis, KF4KSS. (1:29 - 2:12)
5. HaoQi "Esther" Li, KI4LJD, a senior at Thomas
Jefferson High School in Fairfax, VA with
fellow TJHS student Nastia. See Esther's
keen bio at http://www.qrz.com/KI4LJD
(2:17 - 2:35)
6. Charlie Heisler, K3VDB. (3:04 - 3:25)
7. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR. (3:28 - 4:20)
8. Heru Walmsley, W3WVV. (4:57 - 5:20)
9. Tom Clark, K3IO. (5:21 - 6:00)
Also, thank you to Gary Chatters, WA9ZZZ, for
AMSAT-DC Talk-in on 146.76 MHz FM, thank you
to Charlie K3VDB and Tom K3IO for being our
photographers. Thank you to Sean Barnes, N3JQ,
Physics teacher at Trinity High School for
making HD video recordings of us!
Thank you to Bob Carpenter, W3OTC, for his
awesome efforts in helping Martha in the office
for several years, and who made it clear that
more help is needed. Please inquire within!
Thank you for those of you who helped set up
and clean up. Thanks for those who offered
excellent technical insight and advice from
the floor, especially to the students.
A great time was indeed had by all.
Respectfully submitted,
Pat Kilroy, N8PK
AMSAT Area Coordinator
and AMSAT-DC host
pat(a)patkilroy.com or n8pk(a)amsat.org ...
Either one but not both, since each address
goes to the same home.
Dear Esther, KI4LJD,
Well, it was rough making contact but everything
worked out in the long run. We had a full program
going into the meeting-seminar but, hopefully as
you saw, we value your efforts, we want you to
succeed, we are willing to help, and we hope to
see more youth get involved. So therefore we
"made" room for your very fine presentation.
No problem!
Again, please join at lease one of the AMSAT mail
lists (see http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/) or
have someone on your team at school do that to
use us as part of your new, growing "network."
It was a delight to have you and Nastia visit.
Most of those in attendance, and more, are on
the amsat-dc(a)amsat.org mail list. Keep in
touch.
Sincerely,
Pat Kilroy, N8PK
AMSAT/NASA/ARRL/more
At Sunday 3/25/2007 12:12 PM, HaoQi Li wrote:
>Dear Mr. Kilroy and Mr. Scholtz,
>
>I just checked the old emails and I am very sorry about not replying
>to your emails, it was totally my fault and irresponsibility. Sorry
>about all the inconveniences I've caused.
>
>Thank you very very much for still letting Nastia and me talk
>yesterday. Ironically I organized a conference that was held a
>couple of weeks ago and again there was a speaker who failed to
>answer my emails. So in the end I dropped his presentation. But
>yesterday you were very kind for giving us a slot to speak. We
>thank you for that great opportunity because the talk led to
>donations of antennas and rotors to our school satellite project.
>
>I will learn from this and will answer all the emails in the future.
>I hope the rest yesterday's meeting went more smoothly.
>
>Sincerely,
>Esther
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007
From: "Pat Kilroy" <pat(a)patkilroy.com>
Subject: [amsat-dc] AMSAT-DC Space Seminar Reaps Outstanding Success
To: amsat-dc(a)amsat.org
WHAT A FINE MEETING and space seminar we had
today!
Perhaps those of you who were in attendance
can respond with comments about one or two of
your favorite talks or demos. Please also help
me in thanking the presenters ...
I thank you all for your participation, especially
to our speakers:
1. Scott Stevens, N3ASA, via a remote link from
some place near York, PA. With Mike Mantrose,
KA2JAI, assisting with the slides and EchoLink
connection. (11:41 - 12:05)
2. Rick Hambly, W2GPS (12:08 - 1:21)
3. Dan Schultz, N8FGV (1:23 - 1:26)
4. Bob Davis, KF4KSS (1:29 - 2:12)
5. HaoQi "Esther" Li, KI4LJD, a senior at
Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, VA,
with fellow TJHS student Nastia. FYI, you
may enjoy Esther's keen ham radio bio at
http://www.qrz.com/KI4LJD (2:17 - 2:35)
6. Charlie Heisler, K3VDB (3:04 - 3:25)
7. Bob Bruninga, WB4APR (3:28 - 4:20)
8. Heru Walmsley, W3WVV (4:57 - 5:20)
9. Tom Clark, K3IO (5:21 - 6:00)
Also, thank you to Gary Chatters, WA9ZZZ,
for serving as our AMSAT-DC Talk-in NCS on
146.76 MHz FM; thank you to Charlie K3VDB
and Tom K3IO for serving as our
photographers.
Thank you to Sean Barnes, N3JQ, physics
teacher at Trinity High School for making
HD video recordings of us!
http://www.qrz.com/N3JQ
Thank you to Bob Carpenter, W3OTC, for his
awesome efforts in helping Martha in the
office for several years, and who made it
clear that more help is needed. Please
inquire within!
Thank you for those of you who helped set up
and clean up. Thanks for those who offered
excellent technical insight and advice from
the floor, especially to the students.
A great time was indeed had by all.
Respectfully submitted,
Pat Kilroy, N8PK
AMSAT Area Coordinator
and AMSAT-DC host
pat(a)patkilroy.com or n8pk(a)amsat.org ...
Either one but not both, since each address
goes to the same home.
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AMSAT-DC(a)amsat.org
http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-dc
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Patrick L. Kilroy WK
Integration & Test (I&T) 301-286-1984 Voice
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-1673 Fax
Building 5, Mail Code 568 Patrick.L.Kilroy(a)nasa.gov
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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"Great discoveries are accidents
observed by prepared minds."
- Louis Pasteur
Hi!
Our annual local meeting and space seminar is
tomorrow, Saturday, March 24, in Pioneer Hall
at the HEM near BWI. More info given at the
earlier announcements, including the AMSAT.org
events page, see link below.
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Pat Kilroy
N8PK
>Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:20:33 -0500
>From: Pat Kilroy <Patrick.L.Kilroy(a)nasa.gov>
>Subject: AMSAT-DC Seminar Coming Soon
>
>Are you near Washington, D.C. or know someone
>who is? Then ...
>
>YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED to the next AMSAT-DC
>Meeting and Space Seminar. The day long event
>will be held on Saturday, March 24, in the same
>hall as last year, near BWI airport.
>
>Get the meeting announcement at
>http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/eventDetail.php?eID=259
>and share it with others. Today.
>[snip]
>OUR NUMBER ONE NEED for success: Publicity ...
[snip]
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Patrick L. Kilroy WK
Integration & Test (I&T) 301-286-1984 Voice
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-1673 Fax
Building 5, Mail Code 568 Patrick.L.Kilroy(a)nasa.gov
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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"Great discoveries are
accidents observed by prepared minds."
- Louis Pasteur
Dear volunteers,
This is an all hands call for assembling the cleanroom air handlers on Sat & Sun April 14/15 in Pocomoke, MD! Please RSVP & come help! To be successful, we need at least 8 people. Some jobs will be lifting, some will be sorting (like the fasteners we're using next), but at least we have a certified forklift operator! We hope to finish in one day, but are reserving the next day as backup.
Here's the upcoming weekend schedule:
Sat Mar 24 - Closed. I'll be at the AMSAT-DC meeting in Baltimore.
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/eventDetail.php?eID=259 <https://umesmail1.umes.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.amsat.org/a…>
Sat Mar 31 - Open
Sat Apr 7 - Closed (Easter weekend)
Sat Apr 14 - Open. Please RSVP for cleanroom assembly! bob2leo(a)gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 - Open if needed. Please RSVP!
When open, Saturday regular hours are 8am to 5pm. Sunday hours start later. Email (bob2leo(a)gmail.com) or call my cell to RSVP or if you have questions, 443-783-7794.
I've started to upload pictures at
http://picasaweb.google.com/bob2leo <http://picasaweb.google.com/bob2leo>
Check it out!
After raising the cleanroom, there will still be a lot of work before it's operational. We're looking for an electrician to assist in wiring it. Please pass the word.
And by late April we'll be starting the Eagle mockup for the Dayton Hamfest!
See below for a Google map to the AMSAT lab in southwest Pocomoke:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=Broad+St+%26+Pocomoke+Belt,+Pocomoke+City,+MD+…
The AMSAT lab is inside a large warehouse on the corner with a blue roof. Front door says "MIST".
PLEASE ENTER AT THE REAR OF THE BUILDING! FRONT DOOR WILL BE LOCKED!
All help is welcome! Hams, non-hams, college students, younger students, etc!
bob
Robert Davis
KF4KSS
The GPS receivers are spoken for. Thanks.
Dan N8FGV
------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:17:05 PM EDT
From: "Daniel Schultz" <n8fgv(a)usa.net>
To: <amsat-dc(a)amsat.org>
Subject: [amsat-dc] Jupiter GPS receivers for sale
> I recently purchased 5 "CONEXANT NAVMAN ROCKWELL JUPITER GPS TU30 D140" GPS
> receivers on E-bay (item 320086778609) for $60. Since five is somewhat in
> excess of my needs, I would be willing to sell a few of them at my cost
($12)
> if anyone is interested. I can bring these to the local Amsat meeting on
> Saturday.
>
> For specifications and software please see
> http://www.gpskit.nl/downloads-en.htm
>
> I am working on a small breakout board to convert the 2mm pin spacing to
0.1
> inch spacing to fit your favorite breadboard. I can order a few extra when
I
> send this to the board shop in a few weeks.
>
> Dan Schultz N8FGV
