[WIham] AMSAT Symposium - Chicago

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2010 AMSAT Space Symposium October 9-11 at the The Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn 
located west of O'Hare Airport at 
1000 Busse Road, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007.

As of this week the 2010 Symposium Committee has had several exciting
offers for papers and presentations. Topics that have arrived include
the list below.

Exploration and definition of AMSAT's opportunities to grow our
outreach in the educational areas:
+ ARISS and Education
+ ARISS Operation Update
+ Education Paradigm Shift for AMSAT to Support Subsidized 
Launch Opportunities
+ University of Louisiana Satellite Program

Get up-to-date on AMSAT's next platform in space:
+ Assembling ARISSat
+ ARISSatTLM, a telemetry display program for ARISSat-1
+ Software Radio Technology on ARISSat-1
+ ARISSat-1 Overview
+ ARISSat-1 Power System
+ BPSK-1000 format for ARISSat-1

Discussion of AMSAT's future satellite technology:
+ Elmersat -- A Modest Proposal for Future Satellites
+ Using ham radio satellites to distribute amateur radio news in 
both voice and data formats
+ Characteristics of simulated data multicasts transmitted over 
K3IO's proposed GEO-Eagle communications platform

Updates and information of current AMSAT topics:
+ ITAR Legal Update
+ AMSAT-FOX
+ SUNY-AMSAT System Development
+ AO-51 Battery Capacity and Spin Trends
+ South Africa AMSAT Update
+ AMSAT Publications - Future Direction for the Journal, News 
Service, & Web

Building up your satellite station:
+ Flex Radio V/U Module - 2m/70cm full duplex transverter module 
for the Flex 5000
+ Low Cost, Lightweight Homebrew Dish Construction

Teaching others how we do it:
+ How to Work the FM Ham Satellites With Your Handheld Radio
+ Successful Hamfest Demonstrations

The Saturday Night Banquet is the highlight of the Space Symposium. 
Join us for great food, major announcements and the traditional banquet 
prize awards. 

The keynote speaker at the banquet will be Dr. Albert Stebbins, a
theoretical astrophysicist working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
in the Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group.

At the conclusion of the Symposium activities you are invited to
participate in a tour of the Tevatron at the Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory on Sunday. Part of the tour will include 
a tour of the multi-megawatt RF portions of the particle 
accelerator as well as a tour of the new Super Conducting RF
Test Facility. The Symposium registration form includes a place
to indicate whether you can help with the car pools for travel to 
FermiLab and back to the hotel. The planned start time for the 
FermiLab tour will be 12 Noon.

You can register on-line at the AMSAT Store:
http://www.amsat-na.com/store/SymposiumReg.php


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