[NCARC] FW: Fort Collins Mayor Hutchinson at NCARC meeting this Saturday 9:00 am Golden Corral

[Steve's email]

Hi Northern Colorado Amateurs and those interested in Ham Radio-

Not to be missed!!   This Saturday December 20th, we're welcoming back Bob
Schmidt, WA9FBO.  Bob will be hosting a show-and-tell about four currently
hot technologies he is involved with in his career.  This should be one
interesting presentation!  For those who want to read up in advance, I've
included links to a few short articles on each of these at the end of this
email.

Small solar cells  
Small DC/DC converters
Super-capacitors
High brightness LEDs

We will have our normal NCARC business meeting from 9:00 - 9:30, and then
Bob will start at 9:30 am.   


Meeting time:  	Breakfast starts at 8:00 am
			Saturday December 20th
			Business Meeting:  9:00 am - 9:30 am
		   	Presentation from Bob at 9:30 am ~ 10:00 am 
			
Location:		Golden Corral restaurant
			901 E. Harmony Road (across from Sam's club)
			Fort Collins
			Local hams monitor 145.115 -ve offset 100 hz in case
you need 				directions

Biography:

Bob was first licensed as a Novice (WN9FBO) in 1962 and currently holds an
Extra class license. He received a BS-EET from Milwaukee School of
Engineering in 1973. He spent his first 12 years as an engineer in
industrial controls and the next 20 designing and manufacturing repeater and
base station controllers. Bob is currently working in the R&D lab at IXYS
Colorado.  He is the owner of SCOM, Ltd., a local company that designs and
sells state-of-the art repeater controllers to hams, railroad companies,
airport authorities, and other commercial organizations.  His repeater
controllers run our NCARC repeaters as well as many other club stations in
the U.S.

Some references I found:

Tiny solar cells:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE4A583S20081106

Small DC/DC converters:
http://www.ednasia.com/article-22446-recomreleasestinyisolateddcdcconverter-
Asia.html

Super-capacitors:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor

High brightness LEDs:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-08
-2005/0004210672&EDATE=

Sincerely & '73

-Steve Henry, N7GN
NCARC President
970 420 5317 (cell)