[ETS/PARC List] Information: RE: Crosspost: [dsrc at n2re.org] DSRC Meeting Tonight 4-19-2016

Tue Apr 19 10:54:52 EDT 2016

 Avionics and Navigation

                     Bryan McPhee N2RTZ

* Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 7:30 PM

* American Red Cross, 707 Alexander Road, Suite 101,

  Princeton, NJ 08540. See http://n2re.org/ for map and directions.

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Subject: RE: [ETS/PARC List] Crosspost: [dsrc at n2re.org] DSRC Meeting 
Tonight 4-19-2016
Date: 04/19/16 10:49:11 AM
From: "Martin Minnicino" <MMinnicino at phenv.com>
To: "E. Drew Moore" <drumor at optonline.net>

Drew:

Where and what time is the meeting?

Martin Minnicino
Potomac-Hudson Environmental, Inc.
P O Box 7, 207 South Stevens Avenue
South Amboy, New Jersey 08879
732-525-3100

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From: ETSList [mailto:etslist-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of E. 
Drew Moore
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:39 AM
To: ETSList
Subject: [ETS/PARC List] Crosspost: [dsrc at n2re.org] DSRC Meeting Tonight 
4-19-2016

Hi Everyone,
Here is some background on tonight's meeting topic and our speaker, 
Bryan McPhee.
Bryan McPhee will be speaking about avionics, specifically
          navigation from an engineering and user viewpoint. He will 
cover
          the gamut of applications in this field, beginning with
          primitive navigation, through non-directional beacons,
          telemetry, VOR's, the Apollo Guidance Computer, Tacan's, Loran
          A, C, D, Omega, Doppler and Search Radar, Dead Reckoning
          Computer, INS and GPS.

Bryan has a Bachelor of Education from Keene State College (Teaching 
Science
   in Secondary Schools with minors in Chemistry and Electronics) he has 
a
   B.S.E.E.T from Trenton State College T.C.N.J) and an MBA from 
Monmouth College. he attended several schools in the Air Force, O.T.S, 
U.N.T, S.O.S, Survival School, C-141 Upgrade School.I spent thousands of 
hours navigating the C-141 (Starlifter) see www.C141heaven.com for more 
info. 

Most
   of his Engineering was done as a contractor, P.P.P.L T.F.TR Fusion 
Reactor, GE Astro Satellites, PA Consulting custom laptop programmer for
   the first implantable defib. and pacer. Aydin Vector P.C.M Telemetry 
Systems built with thick film hybrids, Denton Vacuum and Consarc 
Specialty Furnaces.

Teaching
   experience, all Physical Sciences including Physics, Chemistry, 
Physical, Earth. He also taught Engineering concepts and Computer 
Applications. Most of his work was done in N.J. Abbott School Districts.
He
   also taught Engineering at the Advanced Studies Program at St. Paul's 
School in N.H.

All are invited to join in an informal pre-meeting dinner at the Super 
Star East Buffet, 311 Nassau Park Blvd, Princeton, NJ 08540 (same 
location as our annual holiday party) at 6:15 PM.

MEETING SPEAKERS
Every one of our members has interesting skills and knowledge worth 
sharing with others. Please contact Rebecca KA3IAX, John NU3E, or Dennis 
KC2IMI with your ideas.

UPCOMING AREA HAMFESTS (from http://www.qsl.net/w2vtm/hamfest.html
   & http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/  )
* Sun 1 May - Warminster ARC Hamfest, Wrightstown, PA
    http://www.k3dn.org/hamfest.htm
* Sat 6 May - Ocean Monmouth ARC Tailgate Hamfest, Wall Township, NJ
    http://www.n2mo.org/
* Sun 15 May - Garden State ARA Hamfest, Tinton Falls, NJ
    http://www.gardenstateara.org/hamfest

UPCOMING DSRC EVENTS AND MEETINGS
* Tue 19 Apr - Titan II Missile Museum, 7:30 PM
* Tue 17 May - monthly meeting, 7:30 PM
* Tue 21 Jun - monthly meeting, 7:30 PM
* Sat 25 Jun and Sun 26 Jun - Field Day

DSRC WWW HOME PAGE - http://n2re.org/

DSRC REPEATER - N2RE, 146.46 output, 147.46 input (+1 MHz offset),
131.8 PL

DSRC 2 METER FM NET - First Tuesday of each month, 9 PM, DSRC repeater

DSRC 80 METER PSK31 NET - Second Tuesday of each month, 8:30 PM, BPSK,
3580.5 kHz ±

ARES/RACES - Members are encouraged to register themselves with Mercer 
County ARES/RACES. To do so, just send an e-mail to the Mercer County 
EC, Kip Burnett at kb2egi at arrl.net for more information.

Two local emergency stations are supported by DSRC. N2ARC is the 
callsign at the American Red Cross of Central New Jersey, the lead 
American Red Cross chapter in the event of a statewide emergency. W2MER 
is the callsign at the Mercer County Emergency Operations Center, 
located at the Dempster Fire Service Training School.

"Open houses" are held the last Monday of each month (except December 
and May) at 7:15 PM at both the American Red Cross, 707 Alexander Rd
(2 blocks east of Rt 1, use rear entrance) and at the Mercer County EOC 
located on Lawrence Station Road. Lawrence Station Road is a right turn 
off of Quakerbridge Road about one half mile south of Quakerbridge Mall.
Just follow the signs to the fire school. The Mercer County EOC is in 
the basement.

MEMBERSHIP - Club membership is open to anyone with an interest in 
amateur radio. There are no dues. To become a member, simply attend a 
club meeting and fill-out a membership application. If you would like to 
receive club announcements via e-mail, please send your name, callsign, 
and email address to mailto:nu3e at arrl.net.
   Hope to see you there!
Dennis
Kc2IMI   ?

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