These are all of the symposium paper proposals received to date:

AO-7’s Solar Array Power After 35 Years In Orbit James A. DeYoung

Amateur radio on the ISS Will Marchant

Software Radio Technology on SuitSat-2 Anthony Monteiro

A Linear U/V Transponder for SuitSat2 Bill Ress

Using AO-51 Telemetry to Optimize a Successor Robert Davis

AMSAT Eagle Geostationary Platform Educational Opportunities JoAnne Maenpaa

Mayan Observations of Venus Martin Davidoff

CubeSat Data Analysis Software Sebastian De Angelis University of Hawaii at Manoa

We need many more papers to have a full conference and we need them soon. I am asking all active Amsat leadership and technical personnel to please step forward NOW and get me some more paper proposals. If not then we can hold the symposium in about 4 hours on Saturday afternoon and then send everybody home.

Since the subject of launch opportunities is driving most of what Amsat can do in the near future, I propose that this be one of the major themes for this year's symposium. Papers on possible cooperative projects with other space organizations would also be relevant. You might also consider doing a tutorial session on some technical subject that you are an expert on for the education of the rest of us.

I may be moving to a new job in the fall so please don't count on me being able to edit a large number of papers on the night before the print shop deadline. Please try to get them in sooner than the deadline, sometime in mid-September (exact date TBD but don't push your luck).

Dan Schultz N8FGV