[McHUG] ARRL Md St Conv, AMSAT & McHUG

[Pat Kilroy]

http://gbhc.org/

I HAVE AN HOUR OR MORE to fill for 
a FORUM on Sunday, March 28, starting at 
9:00 A.M. EST at the annual ARRL Maryland 
State Convention /Greater Baltimore Hamboree 
and Computerfest in Timonium, Md. acting as 
one of your humble local AMSAT Area 
Coordinators, ... and I got to thinkin' ... 

WHAT IF we McHUGers were to provide a 
mini-workshop on Microcontrollers? 

We can entertain and show off ALL 
applications and projects we've worked on 
over the past year, and offer a focus on the 
"simulated satellite" balloon flight experiments, 
since, after all, the forum will be under the 
banner of Amateur Satellites for beginners. 
ALL hams -- yes, even the contesters amongst 
us -- are interested in Microcontrollers, right? 

I propose that we ALSO culminate with a 
pibal balloon launch and 2-hour mission 
towards the end of the forum like we did 
last October at the Mason-Dixon hamfest, 
only bigger and better. 

What cool stuff could we do to make it 
bigger and better? 

Are you in? 

What a fun opportunity. Hope you are 
IN on this one! 

Thoughts? Ideas? ... Thanks! 


73 de Pat N8PK


Pat Kilroy 
pat at patkilroy.com