Fwd: AMSAT Meeting at the NASA Goddard Visitors' Center April 1

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Gang,

FYI. Good ham weekend with Timonium, MD 'fest Saturday and Sunday.

Paul, W4RI

Perry Klein <pk@ieee.org> wrote:
> Martin and Paul,
If you're available, we have a really interesting
AMSAT meeting Sunday, April 1 from 1 - 4 p.m. EDT
at the NASA Goddard Visitors' Center in Greenbelt.

Speakers include Robin Haighton, VE3FRH, President of AMSAT-NA,
Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT Vice President Field Operations, and
Frank Bauer, AMSAT Vice President for Human Spaceflight Programs,
speaking about the ham radio operations aboard the International
Space Station.

Here's the agenda:

1. "AO-40 Whole Orbit Telemetry Retrieval Experiment" by Rick Hambly,
     W2GPS, and the AMSAT AO-40 Telemetry Improvement Team.  KEYNOTE.

2. "Youth in Amateur Radio" by Bob Rose, AA4RR, founder of KI3DS.

3. "ARISS Developments Into the New Millennium" by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO,
     AMSAT Vice President for Human Spaceflight Programs.

4. "Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
     Operations Update" by Will Marchant, KC6ROL.

5. "AMSAT-NA and Headquarters Matters" by Robin Haighton, VE3FRH,
     President, AMSAT-North America.

6. "AMSAT News In the Field" by Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT Vice
     President for Field Operations; with an introduction to AMSAT Area
     Coordinators Dan Schultz, N8FGV, and Ken Nichols, KD3VK.

7. "Clark's Scaling Laws: A.C.V.O.W.I.T.T. Build(ing) A Satellite in
     Your Basement (a.k.a. AMSAT and SmallerCheaperFasterBetter)" by
     Tom Clark, W3IWI, AMSAT President Emeritus.

8. "Autotracking With a $64 Radio Shack Rotator" and "PCsat" by Bob
     Bruninga, WB4APR, inventor and developer of APRS.

9. "A Simulated Satellite (SimSat) Balloon Project Update" by Pat
     Kilroy, N8PK.

On display:

1. Microsat Mechanical Test Model with Tom Clark, W3IWI

2. 24 GHz Downlink Receiving System by Dave Meier, N4MW

Also at 1 p.m. students will be launching their model rockets outside
the Visitors' Center under adult supervision.  That's interesting
too!

Visitors can enjoy a walking tour of the Hubble Space Telescope
Operations Control Center and the NASA Communications Center at 11 a.m.
The Educator's Resource Center will also be available for gathering
student and classroom materials.

For directions and additional information on the GSFC Visitor Center,
visit the VC web site http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/vc/vc.htm or contact
Pat Kilroy 

I always find these meetings extremely impressive and exciting.
If you can join us it would be great!

Perry Klein