January 2010 AMSAT Kid's Day on AO-51

AMSAT-NA and the AO-51 Operations Group will sponsor Kid's Day on AO-51 on January 3, 2010. The event is open to all kids, worldwide.

We ask all amateur radio stations to give this short time window to promote satellite operations with kids, by actually showing a kid how to make contacts via AO-51, providing a station to contact, or stepping aside to allow others to make contacts with the kids.

During the event, please limit contacts to stations that are operating with kids at the microphone. This should allow the kids to have a nice QSO and pass some information.

Kids can tell their name, age, who is helping them operate on AO-51, where they live, and other information about themselves.

AO-51 will be configured in the following mode during the event.

Uplink: 145.880 MHz FM voice
Downlink: 435.300 MHz FM voice

See http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html on the ARRL website for more Kids Day information.

Have fun and enjoy AO-51!

ANS