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- Posted: Sun Oct 23, 1988 6:10 AM GMT Msg: MGII-3794-2749
- From: DCOWDIN
- To: IS
- Subj: ANS.297
- SB ALL @ AMSAT $ANS-297.01
- AMSAT SPACE SYMPOSIUM NOV 11,12,13
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 297.01 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 23, 1988
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- Sixth Annual AMSAT Space Symposium Scheduled for November 11,12,13
-
- AMSAT-NA along with the Atlanta Radio Club (ARC) are putting the
- finishing touches on the preparations for the Sixth Annual AMSAT Space
- Symposium. This year there will be an impressive line up of papers to
- be presented, and, they are the best ever. The topics this year
- include AMSAT's Phase IV studies, MicroSat/PACSAT, advances in Digital
- Signal Processing and what it means for OSCAR users, NOAA-11 Weather
- Satellite picture processing, and many more excellent papers. Also,
- the ARC has arranged a tour of the facilities of the Cable News Network
- (CNN) for AMSAT Symposium attendees for Friday, November 11 at 5:00 PM
- EDT. For XYL's who wish, the ARC has arranged for them a "Ladies
- Shopping Tour" to several shopping malls on Saturday. For those
- attending the AMSAT Banquet Saturday evening, AMSAT is proud to have
- as its keynote speaker this year Geoffrey Perry of England's Kettering
- Group. The world famous Kettering Group has been quite busy observing
- and cataloging man-made space objects for the past three decades.
- Also, Leo Labutin, UA3CR, is planning to attend the Symposium and he
- will be discussing his experiences during the Polar SKITREK Expedition
- which occurred earlier this year. And, as in past years, there will be
- door prizes to be given away. So if you would like to register, please
- contact Martha at AMSAT Headquarters at (301) 589-6062. For additional
- information, send a S.A.S.E. to
-
- AMSAT Space Symposium
- Box 29221
- Atlanta, GA
- 30359
- /EX
- SB ALL @ AMSAT $ANS-297.02
- SPACE EDUCATION NET (SEN007)
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 297.02 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 23, 1988
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- SPACE EDUCATION NET SCHEDULE FOR OCTOBER 29, 1988
-
- The next session of the Space Education Net (SEN) has been scheduled
- for Saturday October 29, 1988. The Mode L session will run from 22:00
- to 23:00 UTC. The Mode L downlink frequency will be 435.900 MHz. The
- Mode B session will follow from 23:15 to 00:15 UTC (30 OCT). The down-
- link frequency will be 145.960 MHz. Slow Scan TV experiments will
- continue on 145.965 MHz during the SEN session. Additional Net Control
- Stations are needed for the SEN (particularly for Mode L). If you
- would like to assist the SEN in this important position, please vol-
- unteer today. Contact K.O. Learner, K9PVW at P.O. Box 5006, Kokomo, IN
- 46904 OR VIA PACKET @KD9QB with your SEN questions or comments or to
- volunteer to assist the SEN. Check-ins and participants are invited
- for both sessions.
- /EX
- SB ALL @ AMSAT $ANS-297.03
- AO-13 Telemetry Decoding Program Available
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 297.03 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 23, 1988
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- AO-13 Telemetry Decoding Program Available
-
- Have you ever wondered what the PSK telemetry from AO-13's General
- Beacon was saying? Well now there is a computer program available from
- Project OSCAR which, in conjunction with the G3RUH 400 bps PSK modem,
- will let you decode the telemetry of OSCAR-13. Thanks to
- AMSAT-Australia, they have published P3C.EXE and Telem-13. P3C.EXE is
- for IBM PC compatibles and Telem-13 is for the Commodore C-64 computer.
- If you would like to obtain information about program availability, contact:
-
- PROJECT OSCAR
- P.O. BOX 1136
- LOS ALTOS, CA
- 94023-1136
-
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- Short Burst Items
-
- HR AMSAT NEWS SERVICE BULLETIN 297.04 FROM AMSAT HQ
- SILVER SPRING, MD OCTOBER 23, 1988
- TO ALL RADIO AMATEURS BT
-
- Short Burst Items
-
- Ross Forbes, WB6GFJ, President of Project OSCAR, is in need of a copy
- of the "Proceedings of the ARRL Technical Symposium on Space Communica-
- tions," Reston, VA, September 1973 published by ARRL. Ross is in need
- of a original copy because he needs a reference copy for the Project
- OSCAR Museum. If you have a copy of these proceedings and wish to
- donate it, please forward it to:
-
- AMSAT/OSCAR Archives
- c/o Project OSCAR, Inc.
- P.O. Box 1136
- Los Altos, CA
- 94023-1136
-
-
- Congratulations go to John Biro, K1KSY, who has submitted the closest
- prediction for the re-entry of COSMOS 1900 to win the Chicken Little-II
- contest. The official re-entry time was October 2, 1988 at
- 01:26 UTC. John wins a GAS FET Preamp.
-
-
- AMSAT Technical Journal Editor Bob Diersing, N5AHD reports that the
- next edition of the ATJ is now in the production process and will be
- available for distribution in a few weeks.
-
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