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SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS011
ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
ZCZC AS55
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 011 ARLS011
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT February 25, 1994
To all radio amateurs
SB SPACE ARL ARLS011
ARLS011 Anniversary for AMSAT
Anniversary for AMSAT
Congratulations to the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
(AMSAT), which celebrates its 25th anniversary on March 3.
In early January 1969 a small group of interested amateurs
began meeting in the Washington, D.C. area, with the idea
of forming an East Coast group to carry on the objectives
of Project OSCAR (Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur
Radio).
They decided to form a non-profit corporation to
disassociate the group's activities from any of the
companies with whom the members were employed, which
included IBM, the Applied Physics Lab of The Johns Hopkins
University, and the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).
Nearly two dozen interested amateurs attended the first
general organizational meeting, held on February 6, 1969.
Just two months later, on March 3, 1969, AMSAT was
incorporated in the District of Columbia. The first
public announcements appeared in April QST and in
Autocall, a Washington, D.C.-area clubs publication.
Among AMSAT's founders (and members of the first board of
directors) were George Jacobs, W3ASK; Perry Klein, W3PK;
Jan King, W3GEY; and Bill Tynan, W3XO.
Today, AMSAT supports both amateur satellites and the
SAREX (Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment) program.
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