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Space Symposium Auction Announced

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Greetings Amateur Radio in Space Enthusiasts!

2014 AMSAT Symposium
2014 AMSAT Symposium

At this year’s AMSAT Space Symposium, we are trying a few new things and we hope you will enjoy them.  One exciting facet we are adding this year is an auction.  All proceeds from the auction will support AMSAT’s two major initiatives—the development and launch of the FOX satellite series and the ARISS program.

As we prepare for the auction, we are asking for your help in donating specialty items for auction (minimum value $100) that will attract symposium attendee’s attention and get them bidding up the item price.  If you have any items that are ham related (no boat anchors please), items of historical value, space related and/or autographed items, or even sports tickets or time shares, we would love to get your donations.  Think out of the box on this—what exciting things would you like to see in this auction?

If you have something to donate to the Symposium auction, please send an e-mail to Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, who will work with you on getting your item or items into the auction.   Frank’s e-mail address is ka3hdo at verizon.net

This auction, while adding a fun experience to the AMSAT Space Symposium experience, will also serve to keep amateur radio’s spirit thriving in space through its donations to FOX and ARISS.

On behalf of AMSAT, I thank you for your donations in advance.  And I encourage each of you to attend and participate in this year’s AMSAT Space Symposium to be held in Baltimore Maryland Oct 10-12.  For more information, see:

http://www.amsat.org/wordpress/?page_id=1555

73 from Your Symposium Committee Co-Chairs:

Frank Bauer, KA3HDO and Janet Bauer

2014 Symposium Commemorative Shirts Available for Order

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2014 Annual Symposium
2014 Annual Symposium Logo

This year AMSAT will again have the popular commemorative polo shirts featuring the 2014 Symposium logo.  These shirts will not be available through the AMSAT Store.  Orders must be received by 10 September in order to have them available at the Symposium.

You may download the order form.

2014 AMSAT Symposium Commemorative Shirt Order.

Note that the order form shows the logo from last year.  These shirts will have the new 2014 logo shown above.  The lettering will be white on blue shirts, blue on white shirts, with the red number on both.

Fox-1 Engineering Unit in Pictures

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 Various photos of RF and general testing going on.

Taking a close look
Taking a close look
On the RF test bench with WB5IDM
On the RF test bench with WB5IDM
Fixin' to run some audio tests
Fixin’ to run some audio tests
Checking the deviation of the high speed telemetry
Checking the deviation of the high speed telemetry
Slow speed telemetry
Slow speed telemetry
Partial stack showing PSU board bottom
Partial stack showing PSU board bottom
IHU board
IHU board
A lot of components and shielding packed into the 8 mm board to board space!
A lot of components and shielding packed into the 8 mm board to board space!
Quick check of the PSU under "solar power"
Quick check of the PSU under “solar power”
The tester needs power, too!
The tester needs power, too!

Fox-1A Engineering Unit Testing Videos

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A couple of short videos showing some of the Fox-1A Engineering Unit testing are now on YouTube.  Each video is a time-lapse condensation of a segment of testing, to give you a look at some of what is going on.  More videos will be added as Fox-1A moves forward.

A 2 1/2 minute video showing about 25 minutes of testing.

A 3 minute video showing about 30 minutes of testing.