AMSAT-NA 2005 Symposium Falls Victim to Katrina
AMSAT-NA has announced that it's canceling the 2005 AMSAT Symposium, which had been set
to take place October 7-9 in Lafayette, Louisiana. The AMSAT-NA Board of Directors made the difficult decision during
a teleconference session September 6.
Katrina radio public service announcement available!
ARRL is making available a 30-second radio public service announcement (PSA) to highlight that ham radio
has been on the air throughout the Hurricane Katrina crisis, passing emergency communications when
other systems failed. Dozens of stations across the country already are playing earlier ARRL
"mini-commercials" for ham radio, and the numbers keep growing. You can help by listening to, then
downloading, the latest PSA http://www.arrl.org/pio/ARRLkatrina.mp3 from the ARRL Web site here
onto aCD and taking it to your local radio stations. To download the MP3 file, right click on the above link
and choose "Save Target." The latest 30-secondPSA was made possible by Johnny Donovan at WABC
(770 AM) and Howard Price,KA2QPJ, of WABC-TV (Channel 7), both in New York City.
"When All Else Fails" graphic available:
Responding to a member's suggestion, ARRL is making available its graphic on the theme of "When All
Else Fails... Amateur Radio." The image is available in several sizes and can be found on the ARRL Web site
logos page http://www.arrl.org/logos/.
Sirius thinks outside the car, adds portable device
Sirius Satellite Radio said Thursday it will introduce a small portable device for its subscription radio service
that can store 50 hours of music, news and programs from Sirius channels. The device, roughly the size of
a deck of playing cards, underscores the trend of the converging consumer electronics devices, specifically
satellite radio with digital music players. With the success of Apple Computer's iPod digital music player,
many consumer electronics makers have been looking for ways to add digital music as a feature on other
devices such as cell phones and other handheld devices.Sirius' device comes a month after Korea's
Samsung Electronics said it will sell a digital music player that can receive satellite signals from Sirius' larger
rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings . XM also has a deal with Napster to start a service that allows users to buy
music they hear on XM stations. The automotive market accounts for the vast majority of satellite radio usage.
The device, dubbed the S50, will have a suggested retail price of $359.99. XM subscribers outnumber Sirius
subscribers more than 2-to-1, but Sirius has been investing heavily in programming, including expensive
contracts with shock jock Howard Stern and the National Football League.
New software makes podcasts mobile
A California company is hoping to tap into the growing podcasting craze with software that enables mobile
phone users to stream audio files directly from their home computer. Podcasts are recorded audio files
downloaded over the Internet. They can be stored on computers or transferred to digital music players like
Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod. The software from Los Angeles-based Pod2Mob promises to enable mobile
phone users to hear podcasts on their handsets, too. Currently available for free as a "beta" test download,
the software runs on Windows and Mac OX computers. The software relays the audio to a mobile phone.
An applet, or small computer program, that must be loaded on the handset allows users to control which
podcasts they want to hear. The company says streaming data requires less memory than downloading the
full audio file."If you have a phone, you dont have to wait to sync," said Brad Zutaut, co-founder of Pod2Mob.
"You can get the latest podcasts on the fly." But quality can vary depending on the computer's Internet
connection, said spokesman Phil McGovern. The company said the software should work on most
Internet-enabled handsets, though it has been tested only on handsets running on the Sprint and Cingular
wireless networks.
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