Satellite news in brief

• The Southern Africa Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT) will be holding its annual space communications conference in Gauteng on Saturday 23 June 2007.

South Africa’s latest satellite project SumbandilaSat which is planned for launch in June and carries Amateur Radio Equipment. For more information about the conference visit
http://www.amsatsa.org.za.

• AMSAT-UK reminds everyone the dates for the 2007 AMSAT-UK Colloquium are 20 through 22 July 2007. We are holding it a week earlier than normal to avoid clashing with the Central States VHF Event. Venue is to be the University of Surrey, as per previous years. Details of the colloquium can be found at: http://www.uk.amsat.org.

• Planning has started for the October 2007 AMSAT-NA Space Symposium which will be held in Pittsburgh this year. More details are coming soon.

• Paul, 2E1EUB plans portable satellite operations from northeastern Scotland (grid IO86ok) for nine days starting on March 3. He wil be using the callsign 2M1EUB/P; QSL via home call. Operation will include AO-7 for those in North America and all of the satellites for European coverage.

• The University of New South Wales in Australia is building BlueSat which will include amateur radio frequencies. More information about this project is on-line at: http://www.bluesat.unsw.edu.au.

• A recording has been put on-line for those wishing to hear the RAFT satellite speak. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/70223raf.wav
RAFT is speaking, "This is JE9PEL via RAFT".
(Thanks Mineo, JE9PEL)

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