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PY2BJO REPRESENTS BRAZILIAN HAMS

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PY2BJO Is Elected President Of The Brazilian Amateur Radio League

Junior Torres de Castro (PY2BJO), the creator and owner of the DOVE (DO-17)
satellite, and also a member of the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors, has been 
given the great honour of representing over 30,000 amateur radio operators 
as a result of being elected to the position of President of the Brazilian 
Amateur Radio League.  One of the major tasks facing PY2BJO is representing 
the interests of the radio amateurs of Brazil in discussions with the Minister
of Communications.  These discussions will include, most importantly, frequency
spectrum allocation.  Because of pressure from commercial interests, PY2BJO 
reports that '95 will be a critical year for radio amateurs in Brazil.

PY2BJO says that for him, being elected president of the the biggest
amateur radio organization in Brazil is a dream come true.  From his humble
beginnings at age 12 in the world of amateur radio working in the Post
Office, he has strived to be the best and to explore every aspect of this
facinating hobby.  His most notable contribution to amateur radio was the
DOVE-OSCAR-17 satellite.  His idea was for a small, lightweight satellite
to help spark excitement about the space sciences in school age children
around the world.  Today, many thousands of school children and radio
amateurs have heard DOVE speak and decoded its telemetry.  Although DOVE
has yet to achieve its full potential, the DOVE Recovery Team, consisting
of WD0E, NK6K, N5AHD, is working diligently to make PY2BJO's dream reach
fruition.  In almost a half-century of being a radio amateur, PY2BJO's
philosphy has been to approach amateur radio as a "researcher" to
discover, for himself, all the intricate details of whatever aspect he
was exploring.  In his early years he studied antenna design with the
goal of using his knowledge for EME work and radio astronomy.  Later, he
helped introduce packet radio in Brazil and worked tirelessly to make it
legal for radio amateurs to use it and set up BBSs there.  Now, he
continues to look at Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for EME work.  And
his "research" still continues in many other areas.  AMSAT-NA and radio
amateurs around the world congratulate PY2BJO upon being elected President
of the Brazilian Amateur Radio League.

[PY2BJO can be reached on INTERNET at his address of BRAMSAT@amsat.org]

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ANS THANKS W3QNS

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The AMSAT News Service (ANS) Gives A Special Thanks To W3QNS

The AMSAT News Service (ANS) would like to thank Bob Brandhof (W3QNS) for
keeping the ANS bulletins flowing while WD0HHU was taking a month long
vacation to South America.  Bob expressed his desire to be a "back-up"
ANS Editor to WD0HHU many months ago and as a result of his hard work,
the ANS bulletins came out without a problem.

WD0HHU's travels took him to Bolivia to to see a spectacular view of
the 3-NOV-94 solar eclipse in Potosi, Bolivia and also to view many
Inca indian ruins around La Paz, Bolivia and Machupicchu, Peru.  Other
countries on WD0HHU's itinerary included Argentina and Brazil.  In Buenos
Aires, the AMSAT-LU members displayed their usual hospitality towards
WD0HHU, acting as a tour guides around their beautiful city.  In Sao Paulo,
Brazil, WD0HHU spent a week at the QTH of PY2BJO "recovering" from his
arduous 20 city, "world-wind" tour of South America.  WD0HHU says that
"spending a week at Junior's house and playing with all his ham radio
equipment and computers was a vacation in itself!"

AMSAT-NA would again like to thank W3QNS for filling in as the ANS
Editor during WD0HHU's absence.

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WEEKLY OSCAR STATUS REPORTS

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Weekly OSCAR Status Reports: 03-DEC-94

AO-13: Current Transponder Operating Schedule:
The Mode Schedule from 19-DEC-94 until 20-FEB-95 will be:
Mode-B  : MA   0 to MA 100 |Omnis : MA 230 to MA  25
Mode-BS : MA 100 to MA 130 |
Mode-S  : MA 130 to MA 132 |<- S beacon only
Mode-S  : MA 132 to MA 155 |<- S transponder; B trsp. is OFF
Mode-S  : MA 155 to MA 160 |<- S beacon only
Mode-BS : MA 160 to MA 180 | Blon/Blat 180/0
Mode-B  : MA 180 to MA 256 | Move to attitude 230/0, Feb 20
[G3RUH/DB2OS/VK5AGR]

The AMSAT NEWS Service (ANS) NEEDS YOUR HELP! The ANS looking for volunteers
to contribute weekly OSCAR status reports.  If you have a favorite OSCAR
which you work on a regular basis and would like to contribute to this
bulletin, please send your observations to WD0HHU at his CompuServe
address of 70524,2272, on INTERNET at wd0hhu@amsat.org, or to his local
packet BBS in the Denver, CO area, WD0HHU @ N0QCU.  Also, if you find
that the current set of orbital elements are not generating the correct
AOS/LOS times at your QTH, PLEASE INCLUDE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL.
The information you provide will be of value to all OSCAR enthusiasts.

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