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* Clayton Coleman, W5PFG, Elected AMSAT President
SB
SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-036
ANS-036 AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin
AMSAT
News Service Bulletin 036.01
From AMSAT HQ KENSINGTON, MD.
DATE February
5, 2020
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-036.01
Clayton Coleman,
W5PFG, Elected AMSAT President
At a special meeting held via
teleconference, the AMSAT Board of
Directors elected Clayton Coleman, W5PFG,
President. Coleman previous-
ly served as a member of the Board of Directors
from 2017-2019 and
also served as AMSAT's Secretary during this time. He has
also volun-
teered in several other capacities for AMSAT, including chairing
the
2016 AMSAT Space Symposium held aboard the cruise ship
Carnival
Liberty.
Coleman’s first introduction to amateur radio in
space was with SAREX
and Mir. An interest in setting up an AX.25 BBS and
nodes led to him
trying out the Mir Personal Message System (PMS) and
digipeater to
make contacts in the early 1990s. It wasn’t until a visit from
a
friend in 2011 that Coleman was bitten by the OSCAR bug and began
his
AMSAT journey chasing operating awards.
Having held other
leadership roles in his community, nonprofits, and
critical infrastructure,
Coleman’s desire is working with constituents
to improve organizational
processes and align them with strategic
goals. Professionally, Coleman works
in the industrial process con-
trol sector as both a consultant and business
development manager. He
resides in the North Texas area with his spouse and
two children.
AMSAT members will have the opportunity to meet Coleman at
the Orlando
HamCation on Saturday, February 8th. He will hold a meet and
greet at
the AMSAT booth from 9:30am-10:30am and 2:00pm-3:00pm. He will
also
make remarks at the AMSAT Forum, which will be held at 12:30pm
Satur-
day in Room CS III at the Lakeside Pavilion.
[ANS thanks the
AMSAT Board of Directors and AMSAT President Clayton
Coleman, W5PFG for the
above information]
/EX
In addition to regular membership, AMSAT
offers membership in the
President's Club. Members of the President's Club,
as sustaining
donors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive
addi-
tional benefits. Application forms are available from the
AMSAT
Office.
73 and Remember to help Keep Amateur Radio in
Space,
This week's ANS Contributing Editor,
Paul Stoetzer,
N8HM
n8hm at amsat dot
org
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