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In this edition:
* 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium Timeline
* Get Those Symposium Papers Rolling Please!
* Boy Scouts Celebrate Anniversary with ARISS Contact
* Operational Notes From AO-51 Control Team
* SumbandilaSat SO-67 South African Passes Planned for Testing
* Taiwan University Announces Plans for Attitude Controlled CubeSat
* AMSAT-UK Colloquium Videos Available
* Satellite Shorts From All Over
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2010 AMSAT Space Symposium Timeline
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 220.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 8, 2010
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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The 2010 Symposium Committee is at work regarding the details of
The schedule. The details depend on the topics and quantity of the
presentations still being worked on by the authors.
We will generally follow the timing framework of previous year's
Symposiums which can be summarized as:
Thursday, October 7
AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting
Morning Friday, October 8
Symposium Registration Opens
AMSAT Board of Directors Meeting continues
Lunch
Friday, October 8 (1300)
Registration continues
Symposium Opening Remarks and Introductions
First Round of Presentations until ~1700
Saturday, October 9
Registration continues
Second Round of Presentations (0800 - 1000)
AMSAT General Membership Meeting (1000 - 1200)
Lunch
Third Round of Presentations (1300 - 1700)
Break
Attitude Adjustment with Cash Bar and Gathering (~1800)
AMSAT Annual Banquet and Speaker (~1900)
Door Prize Drawing (~2100)
Sunday, October 10
Area Coordinators Field Ops Breakfast
Fourth Round of Presentations (0800 - 1000)
Symposium Closing Remarks
Tour of FermiLab Tevatron (1200 - 1500 approx.)
The times listed are US Central Daylight Time (UTC - 5).
AMSAT's 2010 Symposium Committee looks forward to welcoming
everyone to Chicago this October!
[ANS thanks the 2010 Symposium Committee for the above information]
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Get Those Symposium Papers Rolling Please!
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 220.02
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 8, 2010
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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August is rolling on and the September 1 deadline of the call for
papers for the 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting is
approaching faster than ever! So far 7 abstracts and two completed
papers have arrived - thank you. For everyone else - we need to
get busier!
The abstract for your paper does not require any special format.
Simply send an e-mail to the Proceedings Editor, K9JKM with the
basic information: Author Name, Callsign, and a few sentences that
describe your proposed topic. I'll be looking forward to receiving
your abstracts in my in-box at k9...@comcast.net.
These can be on any topic of interest to the amateur satellite
community. We request a tentative title of your presentation as
soon as possible, with final copy submitted by September 1, 2010
for inclusion in the printed proceedings.
To help you prepare your paper the Symposium Committee has posted
an author's guide on the AMSAT.org web page:
http://tinyurl.com/2djjnmx
[ANS thanks the 2010 Symposium Committee for the above information]
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Boy Scouts Celebrate Anniversary with ARISS Contact
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 220.03
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
August 8, 2010
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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On Saturday, July 31, an Amateur Radio on the International Space
Station (ARISS) contact was held with the 2010 National Boy Scout
Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Doug Wheelock, KF5BOC answer-
ed 13 questions posed to him by the Scouts as approximately 800
others listened in.
Andrew Koenig, KE5GDB, who is Amateur Radio Newsline's 2009 Young
Ham of the Year, initiated the biggest contact of the jamboree.
Six Scouts representing Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin, all got a chance to ask astronaut Wheelock a question,
some relating to Scouting and the space program.
Prior to the contact, K2BSA Amateur Radio Association set up its
radio station which thousands of Scouts toured. Some Scouts earned
their Radio Merit Badges and amateur radio licenses as well. This
year, the Jamboree celebrates 100 years of Scouting in the U.S.,
with attendees from all 50 states and other countries around the
world. Forty-three thousand Scouts attended the National Jamboree.
K2BSA also operated on the satellites from the 2010 National Scout
Jamboree amateur radio station. QSL cards for the 100th anniversary
are available. Send your card, and SASE, to the QRZ.com K2BSA address.
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