Opening remarks

The year's accomplishments at the onset of the yearly NAPEX meetings are reviewed. Therefore, I will present the last year's accomplishments and the plans for the next year. The studies supported by the Propagation Program during the last year are listed: OLYMPUS data collection and analysis; the ACTS Propagation Program; low elevation angle 11-GHz measurements; satellite broadcast and mobile studies; radiometric techniques; propagation models database; NASA Reference Publication 1274; CCIR activities; fade detection and compensation; rain rate measurements; and information dissemination.