[KL7AA] This Friday's August AARC Club Meeting

[David Heimke]

QST:

 

This Friday we resume our monthly AARC club meetings at APU, Friday evening
at 7pm.  The directions are on the club website www.kl7aa.net.

 

We will have a presentation and a live demonstration of amateur satellites.
For those who aren't aware, Amateur radio has had satellites for many years.
Lately hams have been using cube satellites, a new technology with a
satellite you can practically hold in your hand.  There are other
technologies now such that hams have been tracking upper atmospheric
balloons, and of course there have been regular contacts with the
International Space Station for years now, with most crews having licensed
hams on board.  The Club has a satellite system with a tracking antenna
also.

 

Most hams even have the gear in hand, you can talk via a handheld with an
antenna in your other hand (see this month's newsletter with a picture of
that happening at Field Day).  There will be a demonstration at the APU
campus this Friday as well, though it will be at 5:30 PM to catch the pass.


 

The meeting will still have the presentation at 7.

 

Amateur satellites have been evolving for a long time, come hear and see and
touch some of the latest technology this Friday.

 

Hope to see you there.  

 

Dave AL7LO

 

PS:  Our door prizes this week include a handheld VHF radio, so if you win
you will have half the gear necessary to get on the air with a satellite!