[KL7AA] LEO Luncheon, April 17th.

[Dan O'Barr]

To all who are interested in the Higher tech aspects of Amateur Radio
You are invited to:
The Great and Honorable Leo Society�s (Gahleos) Infamous LEO Luncheon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gahleos/ 
or http://gahleos.obarr.net

Meeting will be held at: 

Szechuan Restaurant
11751 Business Blvd
Eagle River, AK. 99577
694-9168
12 Noon, Saturday, April 17th

Speakers are:

Reginald Driscoll- WA6ZAP�.Reg was a project engineer for ATT and Bectel
Corp's. 
He has worked and designed electronic and electrical equipment and
installations throughout the world. He will be talking to us about the
installation and design of grounding systems for Amateur Radio transmitting
stations.

Mike Melum- KL6M�.Mike is a world famous Moon Bounce Communicator. 
He will be talking to us about Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) communications in
general, how to get on EME, and some of his own adventures on 432MHz EME.
Mike's 30 Foot dish is awesome and believe me, when you hear the story of how
he acquired this 30-foot dish and got it up, you will be awestruck. Mike will
bring some of his equipment and play some recordings of EME contacts.  Check
his web site out at: http://www.qsl.net/kl6m/.

Dan O'Barr- KL7DR�.Dan is President of MARA http://www.KL7JFU.com,
Alaska Area Coordinator for AMSAT # 24622, BP51ho http://www.amsat.org, 
Founding member of The Great and Honorable LEO Society (Gahleos) and recipient
of a "Certificate of Appreciation as Elmer (Teacher) of The Year 2000".
http://gahleos.obarr.net, or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gahleos/ 
Communications Coordinator for the Re-start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
http://www.iditarod.com
He will give an update on the current Amateur Radio Low Earth Orbiting (LEO)
satellites you can operate and the upcoming launch this summer of AMSAT's new
LEO satellite---"ECHO."

73's
Mike KL7AR / kl7dr