2008 AMSAT Space Symposium Presentations List

A list of the 2008 Symposium Talks has been released and includes:

• Anthony Monteiro, AA2TX - Space Radio for Windows

• López Villalobos José de Jesús, XE2N; Álvarez Cárdenas Omar, XE1AO; Dora Luz Candanosa Salazar XE2DLC - Modeling Robot Control for AO-51 Satellite Follower

• Paul Marsh, M0EYT - S-band and X-band deep space reception

• Tim Salo, AB0DO - Proposed Network-Centric Architecture for the ACP

• JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM - AMSAT Opportunities for Communications Interoperability

• Richard Chapman, KC4IFB, Jean-Marie Wersinger KI4YAU; Thor Wilson; John Klingelhoeffer, WB4LNM - AubieSat1: A Student Designed CubeSat Developed at Auburn University

• David Bowman, G0MRF - Medium Earth Orbit - An Affordable Alternative to HEO

• Joe Lynch, N6CL - The Meteor Shower Nobody Saw – Revisited

• Tim Lilley, N3TL - Handheld FM Satellite Stations : Meeting FCC Part 97.1 with a Superb Tool for Recruiting New Operators

• Tom Clark, K3IO - Taking Eagle to New Heights: A Strawman Design for a Geostationary Amateur Satellite

• Frank Bauer, KA3HDO - ARISS

• Lou McFadin, W5DID - SuitSat-2/Radioskaf-2: The second Amateur Radio Space Suit project and stepping stone to future small amateur satellites

• Christian Rodriguez, Henric Boiardt - Using Iridium's satellite network for amateur satellite communications in Low Earth Orbit

• Bill Ress, N6GHZ - ITAR and AMSAT

• Phil Karn, KA9Q - Power-efficient FEC-coded low rate telemetry formats

• Giulio Pezzi, IZ4FVW/AB2VY - HSSDT Project - High Speed Satellite Data Transmitter

• Gould Smith, WA4SXM - AO-51 Operations Before, During and After the No Eclipse Period

• Fred Kennedy, ZL1BYP - KiwiSat, A Communications Satellite for New Zealand (presented by Bill Ress, N6GHZ)

• Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6ZKV - SumbandilaSat UpOctober 19 (presented by Gould Smith, WA4SXM)

• Howard Long, G6LVB - P3E's Software Defined Transponder (SDX)

• Phil Harman, VK6APH - Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

2008 Symposium Committee

2008 AMSAT Space Symposium begins this week