[ETS/PARC List] FW: W5KUB Live Webcast of Arduino for Ham Radio
E. Drew Moore
drumor at optonline.net
Tue Oct 28 00:06:10 EDT 2014
To: "Tom Medlin" <wa5kub.video4 at gmail.com>
Live Webcast
Arduino for Ham Radio
Please join us for
a special webcast featuring our special guest, Glen Popiel, KW5GP,
author of
the newly released ARRL publication, Arduino for Ham Radio
<https://www.arrl.org/shop/Arduino-for-Ham-Radio/> . This event will be
webcast from W5KUB’s
personal ham shack on Thursday, October 30th at 8:00 PM CT (0100 UTC).
Arduino devices are powerful and inexpensive
microcontrollers, and they are an easy way
for ham radio operators, students, and professionals to create devices
that
interact with their environment using sensors and actuators. Glen will
discuss Arduino and its many applications. Glen will show and
demonstrate projects from his book. He may even bring some surprise
projects not
in the book. Glen’s projects include:
Random Code Practice
Generator
Talking GPS/UTC Time/Grid
Square Indicator
CW Beacon and Foxhunt Keyer
Iambic Keyer
Fan Speed Controller
Waveform Generator
Digital Compass
PS/2 CW Keyboard
Weather Station
Field Day Satellite Tracker
RF Probe with LED Bar Graph
Azimuth/Elevation Rotator Controller
Solar Battery Charger Monitor
CW Decoder
On-Air Indicator
Lightning Detector
Talking SWR Meter
CDE/Hy-Gain Rotator Controllers
To join the webcast
go to http://W5KUB.com <http://w5kub.com/> where the fun begins! For
the first time, there will be a telephone
line for viewers to join the webcast. Viewers can ask questions or
discuss their own
Arduino projects. During the live
webcast, viewers can chat with us or other ham radio operators from
around the
world.
Viewers can win prizes,
including autographed Arduino for Ham Radio
books and some Arduino items donated by Glen Popiel. To be eligible for
prizes, you must have a
registered chat room login account on W5KUB.COM <http://w5kub.com/> .
If you don’t
already have a login, go to “W5KUB” and click on “Live Events and Chat
Room” where
you can either log in or set up a new user account. This year over
$10,000 in prizes have been
awarded to viewers of our webcast! Of
course, no purchase is necessary to win a prize because we don’t sell
anything!! W5KUB is not affiliated with
any products or companies.
Following Arduino, our
guest will be John Amodeo, NN6JA, Producer of ABC’s hit TV show Last Man
Standing featuring Tim
Allen. John will provide an update of
the recent K6H Special Event.
Please join our
group on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/w5kub/
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/w5kub/> for more details and to keep
up with our webcasts.
Also, please help
spread the word by posting this announcement in Facebook and forwarding
this
message to your ham radio friends that may not have received this
message!
73
Tom Medlin, W5KUB
http://w5kub.com <http://w5kub.com/>
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