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SB NEWS @ AMSAT $SPC0705
* SpaceNews 05-Jul-93 *
BID: $SPC0705
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SpaceNews
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MONDAY JULY 5, 1993
SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA. It
is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution.
* STS-57/SAREX NEWS *
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QSL cards are available for all those who heard or made radio contact with
the SAREX package carried on shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-57.
QSL cards or SWL reports should be directed to the following address:
STS-57 QSL
C/O Miami County ARC
P.O. Box 214
Troy, OH 45373
Include a self addressed stamped envelope. Non-US stations should include
the appropriate number of IRCs with your QSL or a $0.50 U.S. stamp on the
envelope.
Report should include callsign, whether worked/heard, date, UTC time,
mode, frequency, and QSO number for packet connects.
* SETI NEWS *
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A search for aliens in outer space has detected 164 mysterious radio signals
that must be studied to learn if they come from natural causes or from E.T.
trying to phone Earth, scientists reported on June 2, 1993. "At this point,
we have no concrete evidence for signals from intelligent aliens. We have
some possibilities we're going to investigate further," said Stuart Bowyer,
head of the search and an astronomer at the University of California,
Berkeley. Detection of the 164 unexplained radio signals since the latest,
most sophisticated phase of the $400,000 search started 14 months ago was
announced during the American Astronomical Society's annual meeting.
"If one of these candidate signals is really a signal from an
extraterrestrial civilization, it's likely we will be able to confirm it
within a year," said researcher Dan Werthimer. "But it's very unlikely that
any of these candidates are really from extraterrestrials. It's much more
likely that they are human-made interference or natural noise sources."
Since the 1960s, dozens of searches have been conducted for radio signals
leaking into space from broadcasts or radar used by any advanced societies
that might exist on distant worlds.
Bowyer and Werthimer said the UC-Berkeley search, which uses a 1,000 foot
wide radio telescope antenna dish in Puerto Rico, is more powerful
and sensitive than any other, analyzing 30 trillion signals in the last 14
months alone.
A $100 million, 10-year search by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration eventually will be more powerful once it is running full time
and with more advanced equipment. That search started Columbus Day, using
antennas in Puerto Rico and California. Several other searches for radio
signals from intelligent alien societies also have detected radio signals
that couldn't immediately be explained. But all of them either were never
heard again or were found to be caused by natural or human sources.
Werthimer said some of the yet-unexplained signals have come from the same
locations in the sky a month or more after they were first detected. "Our
most interesting candidates are signals that are still there when the
telescope comes back to a particular spot," he said. That finding is "very
interesting" because a radio signal that appears fixed over time "has to be
from beyond our solar system," although it could be created naturally, said
Edward Olsen, a scientist working on NASA's search at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena. But Werthimer said some such signals may come from
within the solar system, generated by two sources that appear in the same
part of the sky.
[Story from the Associated Press News Service]
* FO-20 FIELD DAY REPORT *
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FO-20's switch to Mode JA during Field Day saw good activity with a number
of European stations making their first contacts ever on the satellite.
Graham, G8DMR, reported that from his location in IO91LG, near London, he
had contact with stations in DG, DL, DK, OH, G, IV, OZ, HB9. Towards the
close of some passes, contacts were possible with N2, VO and W1AW. Graham
also commented that working sideband on FO-20 makes one realize just how
easy it is working AO-13.
* THANKS! *
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especially:
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* FEEDBACK/INPUT WELCOMED *
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