[amsat-bb] JAMSAT and P3E News

[Jeff Davis]

Peter Gülzow, DB2OS reports on the DL Web site that JAMSAT (Japan)  
has made a generation donation of 1,000,000JPY (7500.00 euro) in  
support of the AMSAT P3-E satellite project.

He went on to say that Mikio Mouri, president of JAMSAT is working on  
the structure of a command station for P3-E in Japan. There is close  
cooperation with the University for communications technology and the  
radio observatory in Sugadaira/Nagano to re-equip their 4m parabolic  
antenna for command use with P3-E in the 23cm and 13cm-Band.

You can read the entire release (German) here:

http://www.amsat-dl.org//index.php? 
option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=35&Itemid=97

Congrats to JAMSAT for their strong support of amateur radio in space!

-- 
73 de Jeff, KE9V