AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow DB2OS gave a presentation about the AMSAT P3E and P5 missions at the Qatar international amateur radio festival at the Al Rayyan Theatre in Souq Waqif.
The Qatar Peninsular newspaper reports the Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS), are hosting the event for the first time in the Middle East. Hundreds of officials of various amateur radio societies around the world as well as secondary students and boy scouts from Qatar are attending.
The callsign assigned for the event is A71QND (Qatar’s National Day).
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http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/qatar/218319-global-amateur-radio-fest-begins.html
Qatar Amateur Radio Society (QARS)
http://www.qsl.net/a71a/