Satgen287  Sat Education Groups         by GM4IHJ            24th Sept 94
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A sample of radio amateur stations and groups using satellites for
educational purposes is appended below. For a much larger list of
callsigns please see the regular Education Lists which EA2CLS provides
here on packet radio.

What has become clear in this exercise to answer the queries by F5DGQ and
others, is that, information in amateur radio circles has been sparse but
the situation is improving rapidly with the appearance of Amsat
Educational News edited by KF6PJ and, the magazine being produced by the
STELAR group.

Several enquiries to GM4IHJ have asked " Please fix us up with a school in
UK who can exchange data with us". Regretfully this is not possible with
GM4IHJ spending more time at his friendly local hospital , than he does at
home at the moment. So please make your contacts direct.

Addresses of individuals and groups participating in satellite physics
education via amateur radio are :-

(i) Dave Reeves KF6PJ @ W6IN.#SOCAL.CAL USA
    Physics Department Chaminade College Preparatory
    7500 Chaminade Avenue, West Hills, CA, 91304 USA
(ii) Bill Pine , Science Department , Chaffey High School
    1245  N Euclid Ave, Ontario, CA , 91762 , USA
(iii) KG6EK 22 Charles St, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, USA
(iv) EA2CLS @ KC4MCQ.#PMFL.FL.USA puts out regular education bulletins
     on amateur radio packet
(v) STELAR (Science Technology through Education links with Amateur Radio)
    72 affiliated schools. Via Richard Horton G3XWH, 7 Carlton Road, 
    Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England HG2 8DD .

What should not be overlooked here, is that there are a number of
Educators who have set up terrestrial amateur radio packet stations in
schools. Getting these groups to consider enlarging their activities to
include satellite studies should be encouraged. So whilst it is
appreciated that most Amsat members rarely if ever answer the couch potato
DXers of the plug and play brigade who clutter the bulletin boards with
their CQ @ WWW's, perhaps it would be worth our while to talk to the
schools seeking CQ contacts. Indeed if the schools using the bulletin
boards could indicate the Educational nature of their requests for replies
by using say "CQEDUC" in place of plain "CQ", it might be easier for those
likely to give useful replies to schools to distinguish the educational
Wheat from the DX couch potato chaff.
73 de GM4IHJ @ GB7SAN