Two weeks and counting for AMSAT at Dayton

A little over two weeks remain before AMSAT opens its
40 Years of Amateur Radio in Space display at the Dayton Hamvention held on May 15-17.

AMSAT's activities begin on Thursday, May 14 with setting up the booth display. The traditional Thursday Night get-together will be held in a new location, the 'Tickets Pub' in suburban Fairborn, Ohio.

The AMSAT Forum will be held on Saturday, May 16 in Meeting Room 5 from 11:15 to 13:30. The schedule includes:

• AMSAT VP-Member & User Services and SuitSat-2 Systems Engineer Gould Smith, WA4SXM will give a talk on
"SuitSat-2 Status Report." Members of the SuitSat-2 team will have a complete operational SuitSat prototype with an experiment at the AMSAT Booth.

• AMSAT VP-Human Space Flight Will Marchant, KC6ROL, will give a status on the ARISS program.

• ARISS Hardware Manager Lou McFadin, W5DID, will give a talk on"Antennas for the Columbus Module."

• Richard Garriott, W5WKQ, will speak at the AMSAT Forum about his ARISS activities while onboard the ISS. He will talk about his training, flight, and ham radio operations during the AMSAT Banquet.

Richard will also be at the AMSAT booth to meet members on Friday and Saturday. Specific times will be announced soon.

The outdoor satellite demonstration area will be managed by Drew, KO4MA and Keith, W5IU. It will feature two types of operational stations. One will be the basic handheld station and the second will feature full computer control.

Since this is the 40th Anniversary of AMSAT, we have a great new tee shirt design by Steve Kenwolf to celebrate the event. Forty years of AMSAT memorabilia will be on display. As always there will be new publications, frequency chart, LVB Trackers and premiums for membership renewal.

Check out all the details, including making your AMSAT Banquet reservations on the web pages:
http://www.amsat.org/amsatnew/hamvention/2009/
Dayton.php

Gould, WA4SXM