[CTSARA] [GNARC] Projects and Activites: An Idea and Informal Survey

Wed Aug 19 00:59:25 EDT 2009

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Frank B. - KB1QZH

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Curt Seaton<seaton.1 at netzero.net> wrote:
> Good day Franklyn.  I applaud your desire to get things going and I think
> they are, it is tough to get folks to devote a lot of interest in some of
> these projects with this being the peak of vacation/summer/other interests
> other than ham stuff.  It will pick up more after the kids return to school
> and things settle down after Labor Day, so keep reminding us all.

I'll give you the vacation thing but after the kids return to
school!?!  Grab the Tech question pool and some lemonade and put them
to work!!  I remember one comment on Field Day from the Ham Help Desk,
essentially, put the kids in front of keyboard and let them go nuts on
PSK31 and other similar modes.  It's just like text messaging.  Who
needs AIM when you have ANTENNA GAIN!! (Sorry, bad I know)

And to go off on a quick tangent: What do people thing of universal
ham text messaging that was mention in the last QST or so?

> I have several things going on that are 'working' now, and will need to
> continue to generate interest as folks become interested and find time to
> devote to these new fun things.   I have the "FOX" that was working then the
> power connector broke on the radio and I will repair it by weeks end and
> have the "fox" running loose somewhere, that will get some players on
> foxhunting and that will be fun as well as preparing all of us for 'stuck
> transmitters' or jammers.  The Dstar is already on from the Norwalk Hospital
> as a repeater and will shortly have the gateway connected and that will spur
> on some different activity for those interested in persuing another
> operating mode, and if one were to search ebay and sites like that they will
> find Dstar equipment for about 300ish plus shipping to begin to play with
> this mode.  We are planning on a presentation of Dstar at the GNARC meeting
> in Sept, not confirmed yet, but that can offer some insight as to spawning
> some interest there and all of it's modes.

I hope you don't do something evil like put three foxes in close
proximity to each other.  I don't think we're ready for spread
spectrum fox hunting.  I doubt Cablevision or telecomm providers would
take kindly to ham hunting down that Wifi hotspot that's causing
interference.
This, of course, leads to a question, how do you hunt for digital
transmission that might possibly have an analog component?

I'm still waiting for the ID-1 and a IC-910H to come down.  You know I
like my high speed data.  With talk of a D-Star satellite next spring,
I think I could be swayed.

So how long until September's talk is confirmed?

> So, yes, keep going, and yes, set up another food place, if you feed them,
> they will come does work.....    I think we should consider posting some of
> your ideas to some of the other radio clubs in the area also, consider the
> FARA and CARA and I'm not sure who all else, how about the SARA sister club
> in Westchester????    This is the kind of thing to bring more activity to
> those willing and interested.   Maybe an email to all the listed hams in the
> area as obtained from QRZ.com or such????    Many hams are not members of
> any club and therefore would not have access to your suggestions for
> persueing some of these ideas, yet they may well be interested
> themselves.......   Tis always difficult to 'spread the word'   BUT by all
> means "go for it".

Funny you mention other clubs.  So apparently the Valley ARA in
Shelton got wind of this and is interested how this goes along.  If
anyone knows who to contact at WECA, CARA, GBARC, FARA, etc please let
me know or, better yet, forward this thread.
According to QRZ, there are 1646 amateur call signs in Fairfield
County.  I've got no clue on how to suck out loads of data from
QRZ.com, Any web gurus out there

> Later
>
> Curt
>

> Franklyn A. Ballentine, jr wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is the best way to go about this.  Heck, I'm not
>> sure emailing both lists at once is a good idea, but here goes...
>>
>> As some of you may or may not know, I've been wanting to get more
>> group\local projects and activities going, especially on subjects that
>> don't seem to get a lot of attention.  Few Saturdays ago, a meeting
>> was held concerning this at Wilson's BBQ.  I do apologize again for
>> the short notice but i though it was a good start.  I definitely would
>> like to do it again and take over another fine dining establishment in
>> the area.
>>
>> I haven't been a ham for long and please don't take this as rude, but
>> things seem slow.  Please correct me if I'm off base.  I guess what
>> I'm aiming at is a way to increase activity.  Can't raise interest in
>> this fine hobby\service if the current crowd isn't doing much (besides
>> community service) right?
>>
>> One other thing I'd like to throw out there is just an informal survey
>> of interests\topics relating to what's above;
>>
>> Ham radio in the schools
>> Microwave
>> Satellite
>> D-Star
>> Packet
>> Other digital modes (DominoEX on FM for example)
>> Wifi and other high speed networking technologies (Microwave
>> Engineering Project for one or whatever can be snagged of Ebay)
>> VoIP (Echolink, IRLP, Asterisk & app_rpt \ communication interoperability)
>> One beer and\or Fanta projects
>> VHF+ weak signal
>> Bending equipment to the will of the ham
>> SDRs
>> Other
>>
>> So thanks for your time,
>> who's in?
>> and don't hurt me.
>>
>> 73
>> Frank B.
>> KB1QZH
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