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A good article, though in Germany, about the Germany SID project named SIMONE.

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Subject: FYI SID measurements in Germany
From: Volker Bothmer
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:03:00 +0200
To: Deborah Scherrer , Norbert Jakowski , Wolfgang Keil
CC: "Dobschinski, Jan" , "Thomas W. Kraupe" , "Dr. Claus-Rüdiger Bernert" , markus.bewernick@t-online.de, Schulleiter Gymnasium Walsrode

Dear Debbie,

I am attaching a picture of the local newspaper on the first official
SID delivery to a German high school as printed of today.

The article is pretty neat as it is and it names the University Stanford, if one ignores
it does not explain the term SIMONE (Sonnen und Ionosphären MOnitoring NEtzwerk)
and does not specify funding by Astrium Satellites and Planetarium Hamburg and naming
the German partner DLR.
I have provided this information to the press in a handout, but anyway it is not a major problem
since the school kids will learn about it and there will be articles to follow up on this. I will
take care.

The website for the article can be found here:
http://www.wz-net.de/newsseiten.php?&artikel=108355540&red=21&ausgabe=39271

The remaining 2 SIDs will be handed out on April 12 and 23. The latter date is in conjunction
with our major PR event for STEREO on April 23 - First 3D observations from the STEREO mission.

The schools will build the Antenna and then once the instruments are tuned up, contact you for data
transfer and collection. The three schools are aligned almost exactly NS here allowing unique measurements
and we are using SOHO and  STEREO for investigating the Sun's activity.

Norbert Jakowski will take care of the SIDs for Mecklenburg Vorpommern.

With best wishes from Göttingen,
Volker

PS. Of course everybody is eager to fly over to Stanford to deliver the data rather than to ftp them :)
If you can make it to Hamburg and the Planetarium we can send you an invitation or arrange a special international event