TRYON Amateur Radio Club - K2JJI » Announcements http://k2jji.org RACES Drill - Tuesday at 7pm EST | On air: -146.70Mhz No-PL | EchoLink: 510372 | Fulton County NY Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:03:23 +0000 en hourly 1 174 Years of “Morse Code” http://k2jji.org/2012/01/07/174-years-of-morse-code/ http://k2jji.org/2012/01/07/174-years-of-morse-code/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:06:15 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2173

The original Vail key is on permanent display in the Smithsonian Institute USA

Steve K2ALS pointed out that yesterday (01/06/2012) was the controversial 174 anniversary of the first demonstration of the telegraph. The date was Jan 6, 1838 when Morse partner Alfred Vail showed a telegraph system for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey.

Over at “This Day in History,” the lead story for Jan 6, 2012 was “Morse demonstrates telegraph.” This is a controversial topic since it is said that Vail was the real force behind the system and it is the creator of key parts such as the straight key.

On the Elmering Blog there is a great article that covers the controversial topic.

]]> http://k2jji.org/2012/01/07/174-years-of-morse-code/feed/ 0 ARISSat-1 KEDR Goes Silent http://k2jji.org/2012/01/04/arissat-1-kedr-goes-silent/ http://k2jji.org/2012/01/04/arissat-1-kedr-goes-silent/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:41:42 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2158 Reception reports indicate that ARISSat-1/KEDR has stopped transmitting on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. The last full telemetry captured and reported to the ARISSatTLM web site at 06:02:14 UTC on January 4 were received from ground stations as the satellite passed over Japan.

You can view the full telemetry display or the condensed telemetry display.

Telemetry reports showed that the temperature aboard ARISSat-1/KEDR had been rising as atmospheric drag began to affect the satellite. Final temperatures received via ARISSatTLM reported this data:

IHU 75 ° C / 167.0 °F
PSU 76 ° C / 168.8 °F
RF 88 ° C / 190.4 °F
Control Panel 61 ° C / 141.8 °F
Experiment 64 ° C / 147.2 °F


Stations receiving telemetry from ARISSat-1 at any time over the last few months, please forward all of your .CSV telemetry files to telemetry AT arissattlm.org.

Konstantin, RN3ZF sent a reception report of his copy of the 0842 UTC pass that, "the telemetry was absent, voice messages were not legible, very silent and interrupted. Most likely, I saw last minutes in the life of the satellite."

Dee, NB2F reported, "Nothing heard from ARISSat-1/KEDR on any frequency during the first USA pass at 16:00 UTC, January 4."

ARISSat-1/KEDR was deployed from the International Space Station on August 3, 2011 during during EVA-29 on by Cosmonaut/Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev.

The satellite carried a student experiment from Kursk State University in Russia which measured atmospheric density. Students from around the world provided the voices for the FM voice announcements.

For more information visit: AMSAT.org

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Since winter is coming, I wanted to be able to get the local temperature, forecast and warnings if any.
The commands are:

  • 50 Local Time
  • 51 Local Weather conditions
  • 52 Local Temperature + time when measured
  • 53 Local forecast
  • 54 Local weather warnings
  • 55 Local weather warnings summary
  • 56 Local extended weather warnings

For the full list of commands visit: Echolink Info.

]]> http://k2jji.org/2011/12/22/new-echolink-commands/feed/ 0 Atlantic Crossing By Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon http://k2jji.org/2011/12/14/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-radio-high-altitude-balloon/ http://k2jji.org/2011/12/14/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-radio-high-altitude-balloon/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:52:20 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2136 The California Near Space Project launched a high altitude weather balloon from San Jose, California 4:00 PM local time Sunday afternoon (Dec 11). Over the past 3 days it managed to cross the United States and then the Atlantic Ocean. The balloon passed the coastline of Spain about 12:40 AM (US Eastern Standard Time) Wednesday morning (Dec 14). It has since popped and landed in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a huge accomplishment. The previous distance record was about 3,300 miles. This one traveled about 6,200 miles. Enthusiasts tracked the balloon via the web throughout most of the trip thanks to a ham radio technology called APRS which received data transmitted by the balloon and logged it to databases on the internet. Thanks to APRS stations around the world (some of whom changed their normal listening frequencies to help with the tracking process) data was available for most of the flight.

Source: Slashdot.org

]]> http://k2jji.org/2011/12/14/atlantic-crossing-by-amateur-radio-high-altitude-balloon/feed/ 0 Even more frequencies… http://k2jji.org/2011/12/13/even-more-frequencies/ http://k2jji.org/2011/12/13/even-more-frequencies/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:20:36 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=1231 For those who don’t know. This website has a feature that will allow you to listen to the clubs repeater and other local (and no so local) repeaters in the area. To do this I use a scanner. I take the audio from the scanner encode it and send it to a reflector server. When you click on the Play “Play” triangle on the navigation bar to the right, your computer connects to the reflector server and plays back the audio from the scanner.

Recently I (KC2UEZ) acquired a new (to me) PRO-2052 Radioshack scanner. I have replaced the old PRO-2030 with this new(er) scanner.

I use the PRO-2052 to stream the audio. The advantage of using this scanner is it can be controlled and programmed over the Internet which opens a great number of possibilities. In addition it can store 1000 frequencies.

I have added a over 300 frequencies of HAM repeaters about 150 miles radios from Johnstown NY, 12095. At the moment it will not receive all the programmed frequencies, but I will relocate the antenna next spring so it can receive all the frequencies.

K2JJI 146.700 is the priority frequency. The scanner will scan and lock-in on a frequency that is busy. If the scanner is locked-in on a frequency and there is traffic on K2JJI, the scanner will give preference to K2JJI and switch to that channel.

For the List of monitored frequencies click here:

146.7000 146.5200 446.0000 145.8000 443.7000 147.1950 444.4000 147.2400
147.2400 449.2750 146.8650 146.6100 145.4300 147.3600 145.3500 449.9750
449.9750 146.7900 147.0600 147.3000 147.3750 224.0600 443.5500 443.7500
443.7500 444.2000 921.3015 145.3700 444.3500 444.5000 224.9800 448.1250
448.1250 147.0900 442.5000 147.0000 448.2250 448.9250 147.0450 145.1100
145.1100 921.0000 146.6400 442.3500 448.8750 442.1000 147.1650 147.1500
147.1500 449.8250 145.1900 146.6700 147.1200 147.2700 224.1400 444.0000
444.0000 444.7000 920.8015 146.6250 223.9600 447.1250 145.1700 145.3300
145.3300 146.7600 146.8200 146.9400 224.4200 224.6400 443.0000 444.8500
444.8500 447.0750 447.2250 448.4250 448.9750 146.7750 444.3000 146.7150
146.7150 145.2300 442.2500 448.7250 145.2500 145.4500 146.7300 146.9700
146.9700 224.6600 442.5750 443.4500 444.7500 146.8800 449.9250 449.0250
449.0250 147.1350 145.3100 147.1800 147.3300 442.2000 442.9500 444.6000
444.6000 444.6500 442.6750 146.8500 147.3450 146.7450 445.0250 145.1500
145.1500 147.2850 146.6550 145.4900 224.0400 442.7500 146.9850 444.1000
444.1000 146.8350 147.3150 224.2600 443.6500 145.3900 444.0500 224.9600
224.9600 145.2100 146.9100 224.1000 449.4250 927.8750 442.8000 442.8500
442.8500 147.2100 224.2800 146.6850 442.6500 443.6000 449.1750 443.8500
443.8500 147.0300 146.9550 145.2900 224.4000 147.0750 145.2700 147.2550
147.2550 442.0500 443.3000 921.2000 147.0150 445.1250 438.4000 440.3000
440.3000 447.0250 448.5750 441.9500 927.6875 447.9250 444.5500 444.4000
444.4000 147.1050 147.3900 224.1200 442.4000 442.9000 443.1000 443.3500
443.3500 443.4000 449.6750 146.8950 441.6500 224.2200 447.7750 224.6000
224.6000 448.6250 443.2000 223.9800 444.8250 224.5800 927.3125 145.1300
145.1300 147.2250 443.1500 444.4500 444.8000 146.8050 443.8000 447.5250
447.5250 447.7250 449.2250 449.5250 449.8750 146.9250 440.2500 447.4750
447.4750 145.4700 442.7000 224.3200 448.0000 446.7750 442.3000 223.7800
223.7800 449.7750 447.3750 927.8375 443.9500 146.4300 449.4750 443.5250
443.5250 223.9200 440.1000 449.5750 921.2015 224.5400 224.4800 224.7400
224.7400 441.5500 927.8000 441.8500 445.9000 224.7200 224.8800 444.1500
444.1500 442.4500 443.5000 927.7625 145.4100 445.9250 224.9400 444.9500
444.9500 449.3000 224.0200 445.8750 447.5750 145.1400 224.1600 448.3750
448.3750 449.9875 449.9935 224.0000 223.8000 444.9000 439.2500 445.6500
445.6500 447.8750 927.4875 224.4400 146.4900 223.8200 441.8000 920.2000
920.2000 440.4000 449.1250 146.3400 224.8400 443.0500 443.2500 224.4600
224.4600 449.0750 918.0750 448.0750 448.7750 442.0750 447.4250 448.5250
448.5250 449.3750 145.2600 224.3600 442.1500 442.6000 146.4600 443.9000
443.9000 449.6250 445.1000 224.3000 224.6800 224.7800 224.5600 442.5500
442.5500 448.8250 447.6750 224.8000 444.2500 445.9750 441.1000 447.1750
447.1750 927.3375 224.3800 446.3250 446.8750 447.9875 147.5350 224.3400
224.3400 927.5625 446.9750 927.4125 442.0000 446.1750 440.6500 447.2750
447.2750 448.1875 927.9885 224.5000 224.1800 927.7875 146.4150 446.9250
446.9250 224.7600 146.4450 224.8600 444.9250 449.4000 146.4750 147.5050
147.5050 441.6000 147.4800 223.9000 446.8000 927.7125 146.4850 448.0250
448.0250 223.8800 441.7000 446.6000 441.5000 446.8250 927.7375 448.3250
448.3250 448.6750 224.6200 446.8500 927.4625 449.3250 927.8125 223.8600
223.8600 446.5250 448.1750 447.3250 441.7500 145.4850 440.9500 440.1500
440.1500 445.4750 440.8000 446.6250 224.5200 224.9200 448.2750 448.4750
448.4750 446.5750 147.0400 446.7250 449.9000 147.5250 927.3385 145.4950
145.4950
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Next Tryon ARC Meeting:

Wednesday February 15, 7:00 PM

Location:

Fulton Sheriff Dept, EOC Room

Fulton County, Sheriff Dept., 2712 State Highway 29, Johnstown NY 12095.
Entrances to the EOC room is located at the back of the building.

 

Topics:

Presentations:

  • Dedication of RACES room.

]]> http://k2jji.org/2011/12/12/next-meeting/feed/ 0 Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Women’s Suffrage Special Event: Success!! http://k2jji.org/2011/11/17/elizabeth-cady-stanton-women-suffrage-special-event-success/ http://k2jji.org/2011/11/17/elizabeth-cady-stanton-women-suffrage-special-event-success/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:38:57 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2100 This past weekend (Nov 12/13) the TryonARC conducted the “Elizabeth Cady Stanton – Women’s Suffrage Special Event”. We would like to thank everyone who participated on this event. We made about 200 contacts. We have received a few Paypal certificate requests and the snail mail request are starting to come in.

If you would like to learn more about this event or you are looking for the address to request a certificate of participation, please visit this page for more information.

]]> http://k2jji.org/2011/11/17/elizabeth-cady-stanton-women-suffrage-special-event-success/feed/ 0 SDR and CR Boost Wireless Communications – Article http://k2jji.org/2011/11/15/sdr-and-cr-boost-wireless-communications-article/ http://k2jji.org/2011/11/15/sdr-and-cr-boost-wireless-communications-article/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:22:19 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2088 I came across an interesting article on the “Electronic Design” magazine. The TryonARC is not affiliated with this publication, but this article “SDR and CR boost wireless communications” does a great job explaining in a human understandable language what the Software Defined Radios (SDR) are, how they work and how they are used on telecommunications. I believe SDR is the future of HAM radio and I think the article will help you understand why. If anything, it does for a good read.

]]> http://k2jji.org/2011/11/15/sdr-and-cr-boost-wireless-communications-article/feed/ 0 TryonARC now officially has a G+ page. http://k2jji.org/2011/11/08/tryonarc-now-officially-has-a-g-page/ http://k2jji.org/2011/11/08/tryonarc-now-officially-has-a-g-page/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:01:15 +0000 KC2UEZ http://k2jji.org/?p=2037 There was a recent announcement that G+ opened the doors to businesses and organizations for g+ pages. This means we can have an official G+ page with google’s blessing. We’ve opened one up here. We plan on having “Virtual NETS” from time to time so people can brag about QSO’s, QRP projects, SOTA Activations, etc.. Don’t worry if you’re not into the g+ thing. All the announcements will still be published here on the site. It is just a way for the club to reach out to other people and show them what we do. Feel free to add us to your circle (whatever that means)..

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The National Weather Service winter SKYWARN session has been scheduled for November 16th from 7pm to 9pm at the EOC room, located at the back of the Fulton Co Sheriff Dept.

To participate you will need to register. Registration is free and open to the public of Fulton and Montgomery Counties interested on weather observation (no ham license required). The online form is located here:
2011 SKYWARN™ SPOTTER TRAINING SESSIONS

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