[amsat-bb] SiriusSat-1/SiriusSat-2 Competition Winners

[Stewart Morgan]

The following is my translation of a Russian language post by Sputnix on 
13 September 2018 (https://vk.com/wall-49343931_1135):

We congratulate the winners of our small competition among radio 
amateurs for the reception of the first signals from the satellites 
SiriusSat-1 and SiriusSat-2.  The winners of the competition were as 
follows:  Rocco Valenzano (W2RTV, USA), Anton Janovsky (ZR6AIC, South 
Africa), Vladimir Chyorny, (EU1SAT, Belarus), Mike Rupprecht (DK3WN, 
Germany) and Dmitry Pashkov (R4UAB, Russia).  It's worth noting that the 
radio amateurs not only received the first signals, but they also 
strongly helped with the dissemination among the radio amateur community 
of information about the reception of data and the establishment and 
activation of our specially developed software system allowing the 
decoding of data and the reception of telemetry from the spacecraft.  
The winners will receive a QSL card, a copy of the checklist employed by 
cosmonauts for activization of the spacecraft prior to release and also 
books on space.  Vladimir Chyorny has already been given Chris 
Hadfield's book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" personally in 
Minsk,  Dmitry Pashkov will be sent Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief 
History of Time," and foreign amateurs will receive Pavlov Shubin's 
illustrated album "The Space Rocket System N1-L3."

Anton Sivkov

Congratulations to the winners!

Todd
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