All,

We are gearing up for this year's AMSAT Symposium, to be held in our area October 9-11, 2009. The symposium will be held in "Charm City"---Baltimore Maryland; at the Sheraton Four Points, BWI Airport. This is a special year and a special symposium in that we will be celebrating our 40th anniversary!!

At this point, the Symposium Volunteer team have met twice and are quickly solidifying the program.

We do need some additional volunteer support and we are hoping you will be willing to help. Specifically, we are looking for volunteers to help with running the AV system, helping set up and maintaining the poster session, support meeting registration, provide symposium paper moderation, and provide support as part of the PR team. These are some of the areas we need help, but could use support in many other areas too.

If you are interested in helping with this year's symposium, please contact me directly at ka3hdo@comcast.net. You do not have to have prior experience---we will train all volunteers.

Please seriously consider volunteering. And definitely come to this year's symposium there will be some special surprises this year. In addition, the symposium doesn't come to this area very often.

Thanks es 73,

Frank Bauer, KA3HDO