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President's Report
I also want to thank Gary Somers from SAIC and the AMTA 2008 Host Committee for putting on a very elegant symposium in Boston. This was the first symposium where AMTA made use of a conference management company. Three Dimensions took much of the burden off the local host and will provide continuity for our members and vendors. The AMTA website is constantly improving. Milestone Marketing, our Webmaster, has made considerable progress the past few months. Their first task of cleaning up the membership and online member registration is complete. They are currently working on the abstract/paper submittal area and online event registration. We have added a European Liaison position to the AMTA Support Staff. This staff provides support and advisers to the AMTA Board of Directors. Carlo Rizzo, the past AMTA Vice President, will serve for 3 years as European Liaison. The major task for this position is to coordinate between AMTA and EurAAP (European Association on Antennas and Propagation). AMTA is looking to the future. Conference management will make it easier for companies to host symposiums. A dedicated Webmaster will provide a website that is a tool for our members. The Board of Directors and Support Staff are continually working to provide the members with quality symposium and support international growth. This should be an exciting year for AMTA and I hope you can make it to the AMTA 2009 Symposium in Salt Lake City! Jeff Guerrieri Kim Hassett and Javier Marti-Canales Elected to AMTA Board Kim Hassett of Nearfield Systems, Inc. and Dr. Javier Marti-Canales of the European Space Agency have been elected to three-year terms on the AMTA Board of Directors.
AMTA Recognizes Dr. Eric K. Walton with Distinguished Achievement Award
Click here for the full citation Jeffrey S. Way Receives AMTA Distinguished Service Award
Click here for the full citation Technical Coordinator's Report
AMTA 2008 Best Papers AMTA 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1-6 November 2009! Abstracts MUST be submitted through the portal. To post or publish your abstract, simply click on "Publishing Portal" from the AMTA home page (www.AMTA.Org). Click on "Add New" and away you go. Make sure you put your abstract in the 2009 event. If you do not remember your password, or login name; contact Secretary@AMTA.org before creating a new login. You do not have to be a member of AMTA to post an abstract; but you do have to register as a user of the AMTA.org website. Student Authors: Make sure you check that "Student Paper" text box for entry into the Student Paper Contest. Remember, the Call for Papers Deadline is May 8th, 2009! One of the issues we had last year was many last minute changes due to the preliminary program versus the final program. The preliminary program is based on all of the accepted abstracts, which this year was about 107. However, the final program in 2008 was only about 83 papers. To avoid empty slots and to try to accommodate the needs of as many as we can the program did change. As part of those changes we made sure we had enough time for the Vendor Lunch and the Business Meeting. Be sure to check the AMTA 2009 web site (www.AMTA2009.org) for changes and updates to our technical program. Technical Highlights Ed Urbanik Past President's Report
There are three main categories of awards given out by the Awards Committee: 1) Distinguished Achievement and Distinguished Service Awards, 2) Fellow, and 3) Senior Member. I'll be putting together a committee to help select the Distinguished Achievement and Distinguished Service Awards, but this year I'll be taking nominations from the AMTA membership for the Fellows and Senior Members awards. Over the past two years, the AMTA Board of Directors started the Fellow and Senior Member awards. Much time and effort has been taken to criteria the awards and recognize our members who meet or exceed those criteria. While I think we've done a reasonably good job to begin, we now wish to encourage our membership to nominate members for the Fellow and Senior Member award. The process is pretty simple: Simply e-mail me at past-president@amta.org with the name of someone you wish to nominate for Fellow or Senior Member. (In the subject line, please start the message with AMTA - Award Nomination. Spam filters do a great job of filtering e-mails with ambiguous subject lines.) That's it. I'll take nominations through July 31, 2009. All I ask is that you 1) review the criteria for Fellow and Senior Member and 2) check out the list of current Fellows and Senior Members. We'll get all of that information on-line at www.amta.org soon, but here it is for you now. AMTA Fellow Criteria Click here to see a list of AMTA Fellows AMTA Senior Member Criteria Click here to see a list of AMTA Senior Members Jeff Kemp
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AMTA 2008 – Boston 
AMTA Europe 2009 will be held in conjunction with the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP 2009) March 23-27 in Berlin, Germany. 
Hello, I am Jeff Guerrieri serving as the AMTA 2009 president. Jeff Kemp, the outgoing president, will be quite an act to follow. We thank him for doing a great job but I am sure he will enjoy his semi-retirement as past-president. 
Ms. Hassett, who has been involved with the antenna community for more than 20 years, is serving as Treasurer for AMTA during 2009. She holds a BSEE from the University of Maryland. She spent the early part of her career designing phased array antennas and later became involved with phased array analysis, simulation and modeling at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Baltimore, MD. She also worked at Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies as a Support Engineer for antenna measurement systems, and later as a Technical Consultant for network analysis, spectrum analysis, satellite test systems, and wideband surveillance systems. She later joined Nearfield Systems, Inc. where she provides sales and technical support for US East Coast customers from her home in Ellicott City, MD. 
Dr. Martí-Canales, who is serving AMTA as Secretary for 2009, has been involved in the development of space-borne microwave & millimeter-wave scientific instruments and systems for more than 15 years. He holds a MSc
Dr. Eric K. Walton of the Ohio State University received the AMTA 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award during ceremonies at the 2008 AMTA Symposium. Dr. Walton was cited for the development of:
In recognition for his outstanding contribution to AMTA and its membership, Jeff Way received the 2008 Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Way was cited for:
It seems like I am finally recovering from AMTA 2008 and the ceiling plaster just missing our FCC Licensing panel. However, your Technical Committee has been hard at work. It is also time to prepare for AMTA 2009. The technical committee and the Student Paper Committees are taking shape. So, start working on those papers. 
Ah, a President's life is never really done. While I no longer have the baton, I still have indentations in my hand from gripping it. According to my illustrious successor, Jeff Guerrieri, as Past President, my main responsibility is to chair the Awards Committee, which is of course responsible for the awards that AMTA gives out at the annual meeting and Symposium. AMTA Meetings Advisor's Report Antenna Measurement and Test Society Conference in Hyderabad, India
Known as the "City of Pearls," Hyderabad is today one of the most developed cities in India and a modern hub for information and technology, biotechnology, and antenna technology. The city proudly boasts having the highest number of antenna test ranges in India. ATMS members represent government, academia, R&D establishments and industry; while largely based in India, members are also based abroad. ATMS membership shares an interest with AMTA membership in antenna and radar cross section measurements, innovative measurement techniques, measurement systems and instrumentation, compact ranges, near-field techniques and their applications - to name a few of the more common areas of interest the two organizations share. Patrons of the ATMS include distinguished AMTA members Dr. Shantnu Mishra of the Canadian Space Agency, Dr. Allen Newell of NSI, Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Sammi of the University of California-Los Angeles, as well as Drs. Don Bodnar and Carlo Rizzo of MI Technologies.
After Dr. K.N. Shankara, a former director of SAC Ahmadabad and ISAC Bangalore, presented the keynote address, the three days of the conference quickly passed due to the excellent papers, exciting exhibition and wonderful social events that stimulated conversation amongst the conference attendees from India and many countries. The Conference Organizing Committee, including Chairman Professor O.P.N. Calla and Secretary R. K. Malaviya, deserve special recognition for their tremendous efforts that resulted in a very successful conference. Several AMTA members attended the conference and presented invited papers, including:
In addition, the technical program was complemented with invited presentations by distinguished regional experts, including:
Several exhibitors participated in the conference, including sponsors Orbit/FR, Satimo, Emerson & Cuming, ETS-Lindgren, SATCOM, and Lambda Microwave. During the last session of the conference, ATMS Board Members passed a resolution that every year ATMS will be held between January 15 to February 15 in different cities of India. Accordingly, the next ATMS 2010 will be held in Delhi. The Board passed a resolution that future conferences will have one day for tutorials and two days for the conference. The First Call for Papers for ATMS 2010 will be issued in March 2009 and the last date to submit the final paper will be December 15, 2009. All who participated eagerly look forward to the ATMS 2010 conference. Visit www.atmsindia.org or the AMTA website later this year for complete details. Janet O'Neil AMTA European Liaison's Report
I would like to remind everyone of our next AMTA Europe meeting which will take place in Berlin at the end of March 2009. Preparations are underway with a full program covering the majority of antenna and RCS metrology topics. Registrations are now open and we expect a good participation this year. Further information can be found at http://www.amtaeurope2009.org or by e-mailing info@amtaeurope2009.org. I encourage our European AMTA members to sign up as soon as possible before hotel places run out. Our next AMTA Europe event will take place in sunny Spain in 2010 in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Details of this conference will be posted on the WEB site within a month or so. At this point I wish to thank every AMTA member for supporting me on the BOD for the last three years and I can say it has been a pleasure serving this striving community. See you in Berlin. Carlo Rizzo
Letter from the Editor 2009 Board of Directors Your Board of Directors meets for 12 to 16 hours a day for three days to map out the path forward for the AMTA for the following year. What is to be remembered about your Board of Directors is that these officers are volunteers elected by the members of the AMTA at the Annual Symposium Business lunch. There are no monies received by these volunteers for this 3 to 4-year commitment. Along with the meetings and frequent teleconferences, each officer has responsibilities that use up their precious daily time. They are especially busy during the months just prior to and during the annual symposium, during the AMTA European and Asian events, and the local events the AMTA hosts each year. Your Board of Directors and Senior Advisors deserve a thank you from all AMTA members. Please join me in thanking them for all their hard work and dedication to this organization and a special thank you to all the previous members of your Board of Directors. Lawrence L. Mandeville AMTA Members Concerned with the High Cost of Energy In this environment of high energy costs there are alternatives. Below is a possible alternative solution to high energy cost that might apply to some of the AMTA members. From time to time if I come upon energy information that might help AMTA members cut energy consumption and costs, I will forward that information via our newsletter. For Instance, 'First RF', a small antenna manufacturing company in Boulder Colorado, runs their entire manufacturing plant on solar power. During off hours, First RF sells their excess generated solar energy back to the power grid. It can be done. Click here to read more about energy cost savings. Lawrence Mandeville
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AMTA's sister organization in India, the Antenna Measurement and Test Society (ATMS), recently held their second annual conference in Hyderabad. Dr. B. K. Sinha, the doyen of antenna measurement in India and former Director, SAMEER, was the Guest of Honor. 
Hello AMTA members and welcome to 2009, a year which will lead us to Berlin and Salt Lake City for our annual meetings. I have just recently completed my three year term on the AMTA BOD and I can say it has been a tremendous experience working with other board members and the rest of you. I thank you all for your support and wish Dan Janning good luck in his new post as AMTA Vice President! I have now taken up an advisory role within the AMTA organisation for the next three years. I will be known as the "AMTA European Liaison". I shall be interacting with our membership base in Asia and Europe and reporting back to the AMTA BOD; so hopefully we will still bump into each other either in the US or Europe. Please click here to be removed from the AMTA Newsletter distribution list. The AMTA Newsletter is edited by Lawrence L. Mandeville and is prepared and distributed by Milestone Marketing, Inc. 241 Shyrewood Drive, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043. |