TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

The Atlantic Division Technical Achievement Award is awarded to Jim
Sanford WB4GCS.

Jim was first licensed in the sixth grade and was a 1976 graduate of
the US Naval Academy.  While active in the Navy, he was active with
Navy MARS stations both on ships and on shore.

Jim was nominated for his involvement with the AMSAT program.  He is
currently serving as the Project Manager for the AMSAT OSCAR Eagle
project.  This project is the next generation high earth orbit
satellite under construction now by AMSAT North America.  Eagle will
provide many services and reliable communications on bands not
previously available and will build upon technology developed by
AMSAT-NA for use in P3E.  Eagle is currently in development stage
although the major components are finished (and installed on P3E) and
other components such as the software defined transponder have been
demonstrated.