sjb (05/16/82)
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A M S A T
S A T E L L I T E R E P O R T
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Number 32
10 May, 1982
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Dayton Hamvention
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Almost 30,000 people flocked to this year's Dayton Hamvention. At
noon Saturday, the AMSAT Forum started. Features included a slide
show of the history of the Phase IIIB fuel tank and a question and
answer period that many felt deserved much more time than the 90
minutes allotted it.
Trinkets were quickly sold out: Hams-In-Space T-shirts and decals
among them. A TV monitor displayed a production by AMSAT, and its
crowds stayed until the end. Donations to AMSAT went over $4500.
New equipment was offered to the eagerly awaiting throngs of hams.
Manufacturers included Ten-Tec, Microwave Modules, Cushcraft, KLM,
Advanced Receiver Research, Lunar, and Spectrum West. [The article
goes on here to describe some of the new items, but, so that I will
in no way use USENET to advertise companies' products (uh...the above
list was just a list of who was there...ahem), I will refrain from
summarizing that part --Adam]
RS May Day Announcement
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The RS-7 bulletin board started to convey to the public on 29 April
concerning the May Day celebrations in the USSR. The translation
provided reads: ``CQ DE RS7 PSE (send your messages) 2 MAY at 1200
Moscow local time on 14282 kHz.'' No interest in outside participation
was hinted.
More Net Listings
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The following net listings come from England and are being conveyed
to ASR readers in the case that they will take interest in them:
Net Name Day Time Frequency
AMSAT UK 80m Wed. 1900Z 3780 kHz
AMSAT UK 80m Sun. 1000Z 3780 kHz
AMSAT UK 2m Sun. 1930Z 144.280 MHz SSB
AMSAT UK 70cm Sun. 1800Z 432.210 MHz SSB
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The AMSAT Satellite Report is a bi-weekly publication of the
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. Material may be quoted
without permission as long as credit is given. Material in
two single quotes (``*'') is taken directly from the bulletin,
while that in double quotes ("*") is an actual statement.