ARLA/CLUSTER: Equipa da ARISS agradece todo o tremendo apoio recebido em 2018.!

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

The ARISS Team thanks you for your tremendous support in 2018!

As the ARISS team reviews 2018 successes, it is time to say thank you
to our very dedicated supporters.

To begin expressing thanks appropriately, ARISS commends 2018 donors
who contributed $1,000 or more. The extreme confidence in ARISS by
these generous individuals, organizations, and corporations propels
ARISS’s successes in using Amateur Radio for a thrilling conversation
with an orbiting ISS astronaut to introduce youth, educators, and
others to science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, space,
radio technology and Amateur Radio.

They are:
Tom Clark, K3IO
Dayton Amateur Radio Association
John Dean, K0JDD
Frank Donovan, W3LPL
HamJam, sponsored by North Fulton Amateur Radio League
Irving Amateur Radio Club
JVC KENWOOD Corporation
Joe Lynch, N6CL & Carol Lynch, W6CL
MFJ: Martin Jue, K5FLU & Betty Jue
Levi Maaia, K6LCM & Daniela Maaia,
W6DRM Ren Roderick,
K7JB Robert Sherwood,
NC0B William Tynan, W3XO (now SK)
Yasme Foundation Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous

Each of these donors is an ARISS honorary team member; we are
gratified for their robust backing of ARISS.

ARISS wouldn’t exist at all without its major sponsors.
We cannot extol enough, the continuing and vital support of:
NASA Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN)
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

We fervently applaud them all. NASA, AMSAT, and ARRL have backed ARISS
since 1996 during its infancy when the team first developed ideas for
the program!

ARISS also pays tribute to the many other donors who firmly stood with
ARISS’s goals in 2018. Even more important, many of these donors
faithfully contribute their dollars year after year.

Every donor’s support is critical to launching the new ARISS hardware
in 2019. The new radio system will improve ARISS educational
activities, the packet and SSTV capabilities, and will include other
exciting communications features, such as a voice repeater. The new
system will ensure that ARISS communications will continue seamlessly
for the weekly school and youth group radio contacts with astronauts
on the Space Station.

ARISS has a ways to go to reach our dollar goal before launches of new
equipment can occur, and there is not a lot of time left. 2018 ARISS
donors stated that they hoped their generosity would encourage others
to become ARISS backers.
You can join in the funding challenge by contacting Frank Bauer,
ka3hdo  gmail.com or Rosalie White, k1sto  arrl.org.
We hope to hear from you!
Contributions can be given directly at http://www.ariss.org/donate.html

ARISS saw a very positive 2018. We hope for an even more stupendous
2019 thanks to generous donors like you. Thank you for your support!

Dave Jordan, AA4KN
ARISS PR
aa4kn  amsat.org