The NTX AREDN Group will have AREDN-In-The-Park (AIP) event this Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 13:00-16:00 local time at Richardson’s Custer park,
Month: May 2018
Skynet 5-26-18 How to See the Gegenschein & Constellation Corona-Borealis 9PM CT
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “How to See the Gegenschein” and “Tour of the Constellation Corona-Borealis”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet”
Facebook.com Search “DARC Skynet”
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Direct Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCishlh8WmW7OXy9Q6sxsaag
Tech Net News 05-26-2018
Don’t forget that the club could use your hep at Ham Com in just a couple of weeks.
The next club meeting on Tuesday, June 5th will be focused on preparing for Field Day. Even if you can’t join us, get outside and participate!
Perhaps because Field Day is coming up, the contest calendar has only one big event this weekend: the CQ World-Wide WPX CW Contest. Every different callsign prefix counts as a multiplier; you—yes, you—are worth points to someone. If your CW is up to contesting, this should be a really fun event.
Help Needed – HAM-COM 2018
The DARC will be participating at HAM-COM 2018 and needs some volunteers to help man the DARC table during the event. Continue reading
Ham-Com 40th Anniversary
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Location: Plano Event Center, 2000 E. Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX 75074 (about a mile East of Hwy. 75)
June 8 – 10, 2018.
Tech Net News 05-19-2018
Don’t forget, our next Lecture and Lab will be one week from today. We’ll be learning more about the awesome, fun, and cheap USB radio receivers we set up last month. Don’t worry: it’s not too late for you to order one and join in the fun. We’ve got more details here.
In amateur radio news, there’s some great new information about the work done by ham radio citizen scientists during the 2017 total solar eclipse. You can read the original paper here or a less-geeky summary here.
The use of the FT8 digital mode is increasing very rapidly. I know that it’s gotten me back on the air despite lousy conditions; with FT8, a short opening is all you need.
And the WX4NCH National Hurricane Center amateur radio station will be on the air next Saturday, May 26th, from 8am-4pm Dallas time.
Lecture and Lab 5-26-18 “SDR Radio – Part 2”
Our next “Lecture and Lab” will be “Software Defined Radio on the Cheap” (Part 2).
Our original “SDR on the Cheap” was a big success and we now have 12 hams with working SDR’s. This month we’ll be doing something more ambitious. Intercepting and decoding digital signals. So bring your SDR device and be ready to learn how to decode DMR, D-Star, P25 and others, if we have time.
If you do not have an SDR radio, just Google RTL-SDR and buy one on line and bring it to the meeting. They are under $25 from most suppliers and delivered to you within a week.
We will be working with Windows SDR# (SDR Sharp) software. Which is free and downloadable.
ALSO: If you don’t have an SDR radio/dongle – don’t fret – we’ll also be looking at websites which have active SDR-RTL radios connected to the internet which your can control from your own computer! How cool is that?
Bring your laptop, RTL-SDR USB (if you have one), and an antenna which can be attached to your RTL-SDR USB antenna connector. (A 2 meter antenna is fine – or a long wire).
Lecture and Lab May 26th, 10AM – 2PM
Dallas Medical Center
3rd Floor Conference Room
7 Medical Center Way
Farmers Branch, TX
Free Parking!
Skynet 5-19-18 JPL Missions: Magellan & Constellation Bootes 9PM CT
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “JPL Missions Part 9: Magellan” and “Tour of the Constellation Bootes”
Net Control: Kelley K5KTX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Aliens” (1986)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet”
Facebook.com Search “DARC Skynet”
Twitch.tv Search “KE5ICX”
Direct Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCishlh8WmW7OXy9Q6sxsaag
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skynet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/306498286059167/
Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
“The JPL Missions Part 9: Magellan”
Tech Net News 05-12-2018
Don’t forget that our next Lecture and Lab, on Saturday, May 28th, will focus on the low cost software-defined receivers we introduced in April. These things are fun! I’m not sure if we’ll have any more for sale, but they’re easy to get on-line and and they’re addictive to play with.
On the air, you can check out some of the operating activities going on now, including the Arkansas QSO party and the CQ-M International DX contest.
Skynet 5-12-18 “The TDRSS!” & Constellation Virgo 9PM CT
SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The TDRSS!” and “Tour of the Constellation Virgo”
Net Control:
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet”
Facebook.com Search “DARC Skynet”
Twitch.tv Search “KE5ICX”
Direct Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCishlh8WmW7OXy9Q6sxsaag
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skynet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/306498286059167/
Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT. Continue reading
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