I believe 1 or more ASA members is a "ham."

   FYI, I received the following yesterday.

From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD.
March 23, 2008
To All RADIO AMATEURS

This week marked the passing of Arthur C. Clarke, author of more
than 100 published books in which he foresaw the future of tech-
nology, promoted the possibilities of human innovation and explor-
ation and combined these with the ability to explain these to
non-scientific readers.

The most famous example is from 1945, when he first proposed the
idea of communications satellites that could be based in geosta-
tionary orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative
to the ground.

Tom Clark, K3IO recalled, "You might be interested in knowing that
Arthur was an AMSAT Life Member. His member number, quite fittingly,
was LM-2001."

Tom continued, "In the 1970's and 80's, Arthur was a frequent visitor
to NASA. He was listed in the Goddard phone director as a consultant
in the LANDSAT group, and he also served as a consultant at NASA HQ.

In the early  1980's (when I was AMSAT President), on a trip to Wash-
ington, Dick Daniels (W4PUJ), Jan King (W3GEY) and I made the presen-
tation of honorary AMSAT LM-2001 to Arthur. He was most appreciative
and spent a couple of hours talking with us about our being the
"Wright Brothers" of the satellite world, building satellites in our
basements and garages."

Arthur communicated with us several times in the years following that
visit. He asked that his LM-2001 Journal subscription be sent in his
name to a library in Sri Lanka.

... Hams do it with frequency, till their gigahertz.  
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