Date: October 22nd 2007

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-294

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AMSAT 2007 Space Symposium **

The Wireless Association of South Hills Amateur Radio Club announces the 2007 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel on Friday, October 26 through Sunday, October 28, 2007 The AMSAT web team has posted informational pages on the AMSAT web site You can find the announcement with many links at: http://www amsat org/amsat-new/symposium/2007/index php

In this edition: * AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Begins This Week * Talk-in for the Symposium * Echolink to be activated during AMSAT Symposium * AMSAT Awards * Donate to AMSAT via MissionFish * AO-51 Software Crash - Reload/Reboot in Progress * AMSAT Symposium Proclamations

SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 01 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Begins This Week

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 01 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 01

The AMSAT-NA 2007 Space Symposium will begin this week! The AMSAT Board of Director's meeting on Thursday, October 25 kicks off the event Symposium activities begin on Friday, October, 26 Amateur Radio Satellite Operators will find the AMSAT Space Symposium to be an exciting and rewarding event-filled weekend Here are some of the features and events to look forward to:

AMSAT-NA Annual General Meeting
AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Meeting
AMSAT Directors and Officers will be available to answer your questions
AMSAT Annual Banquet with Keynote Speaker
Technical forums focusing on the latest planning and technology of Amateur Radio in Space
All Papers and Presentations will be published in the Symposium Proceedings for all registered attendees
Technical demonstrations of prototype flight hardware and software for AMSAT Eagle - the next generation in space
Discussions and demonstrations of SuitSat-2, ARISS, solid state RF power amp, antennas, AO-51
Update on AMSAT's new Maryland Lab
AMSAT Area Coordinators' Breakfast and Meeting on Sunday Morning
IARU Satellite Forum
President's Club Reception
Satellite Beginner's Session: Introduction to Satellites
An operating satellite station capable of working AO-7, FO-29, AO-27, SO-50, AO-51 and VO-52
N2SPI satellite antenna demonstrations and antenna construction with students
Meet and greet old friends and make new friends
Enjoy eyeball QSOs with satellite designers, builders, and operators from around the world
Sunday afternoon tour to the WPXI-DT Digital Studio

The AMSAT Software Defined Transponder Team is working toward having an operational VHF - UHF transponder available for the entire weekend Eagle Project Team members will be available to answer your questions and provide demonstrations

AMSAT-DL Vice-President and Board member Hartmut PÃƒÂ¤sler, DL1YDD will give a presentation about the current status of the P3-E project and P5-A

The full Symposium schedule has been posted on the web pages

New to the Symposium this year is a selection of apparel that may be ordered We have Symposium themed golf shirts, tee shirts, key rings ball caps A percentage of these sales will go to Eagle

For those people who would rather not register for the Meeting through the AMSAT store, you can register via phone by calling 301-589-6062

[ANS thanks 2007 AMSAT Space Symposium Co-chairs Kevin N3HKQ, and Pat KC4WTT for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 02 Talk-in for the Symposium

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 02 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 02

All: Bottom line:

Talk-in for Symposium will be on 146 955/146 355 or 443 65/448 65 repeaters (out/in) BOTH repeaters REQUIRE 131 8Hz CTCSS

The 443 65 has very good coverage (3 remote receivers and 250 W tx) in areas where the 2m is "marginal" If not making UHF, user should try VHF

73, Jim wb4gcs@amsat org

[ANS thanks Jim, WB4GCS, for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 03 EchoLink to be activated during the AMSAT Symposium

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 03 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 03

During the AMSAT open meeting portion of the Symposium, Echo-Link will be activated so people from around the globe can check in and join the meeting's discussion What follows is an instruction set to enable you to use this feature See the echolink website for further clarification

Here's the instructions as best I can write based on just doing it Feel free to contact someone more familiar with echolink -- I'm a rare user

Download and install the echolink client from echolink org

Launch it

First time users must provide some info and allow a few days for authentication as a valid ham

Select explorer view

select Node Types

Select Conferences

View AMSAT and double click

You will either connect or time out

If you time out, accept the "learn more" option to learn how to connect either through a proxy or configure your router to allow the ports needed by echolink

73, Jim wb4gcs@amsat org

[ANS thanks Jim, WB4GCS, for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 04 AMSAT Awards

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 04 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 04

Awards this week are: We would like to welcome the following to the satellite community They have made their first satellite contact and are now members of the AMSAT Satellite Communicators Club John Marranca, Jr , KB2HSH

South Africa AMSAT Communication Achievement Award Fernando Martins, CT2ISG, #US114

To see all the awards visit http://www amsat org or http://www amsatnet com

-- Bruce Paige, KK5DO AMSAT Director Contests and Awards ARRL Awards Manager (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on W0KIE Intelsat Americas, T1, 6 2/6 8Mhz Also streaming MP3 at http://www amsatnet com Latest satellite news on the ARRL Audio News http://www arrl org

[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 05 Donate to AMSAT via MissionFish

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 05 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 05

For all of you that sell your goodies on eBay, wether it is ham radio related or not, you can donate a portion of your sale automatically to AMSAT through MissionFish

To do this, when you list your item for sale, there is a tab that pops up on the Ã‚Â“How youÃ‚Â’re sellingÃ‚Â” screen for Online Auction or Fixed Price Within those tabs, there is a blue and yellow ribbon with Ã‚Â“Donate a percentage of sale Ã‚Â” After selecting AMSAT as your nonprofit organization, pick a per- centage of the selling price to go to the AMSAT ThatÃ‚Â’s all you have to do

When the auction is over, you give your donation to MissionFish or do nothing and MissionFish will deduct it from your credit card In turn, MissionFish, will deposit the funds into AMSATÃ‚Â’s bank account

This is an ideal way to donate a little bit or a big bit to AMSAT every time you auction something You do not need to be a member of AMSAT to donate money through eBayÃ‚Â’s online auctions So, ask your non-ham friends if they would donate a little to AMSAT every time they auction something on eBay

To see how MissionFish works, go to http://www missionfish org

[ANS thanks Bruce, KK5DO for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 06 AO-51 Software Crash - Reload/Reboot in Progress

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 06 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 06 AO-51 Software Crash - Reload/Reboot in Progress

Drew, KO4MA AMSAT-NA Vice President of Operations reported that at 1848Z on OCtober 11 the software on AO-51 crashed and shut down both transmitters The repeater and BBS have been down for several days while the command stations reload and restart the software

On October 17, Drew reported on progress by the AO-51 Operations Team, "We are making good progress in reloading the software nec- essary to run AO-51, although it was a bit of a rocky start The control stations hope to have AO-51 reloaded by the weekend of October 20-21 As we reload and restart operations on the satellite we will be able to better predict its return to service "

Interested stations can use their TlmEcho software to watch progress on the 435 150 MHz downlink This downlink may only be on over the Southeastern US depending on how far along the reloading has proceeded

[ANS thanks Drew, KO4MA for the above information]

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SB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-294 07 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium Begins This Week

AMSAT News Service Bulletin 294 07 From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD October 21, 2007 To All RADIO AMATEURS BID: $ANS-294 07

Proclamations from the Allegheny County Executive and Pennsylvania Governor recognizing that AMSAT is holding the Symposium in Pittsburgh can be found at the Website (www amsat org) since space is limited here

[ANS thanks Kevin Smith for the above information]

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In addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the President's Club Members of the President's Club, as sustaining donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive additional benefits Application forms are available from the AMSAT Office

73, This week's ANS Editor, Dee Interdonato, NB2F nb2f at amsat dot org

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