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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.
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.
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)..
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
On November 9th national communications will be disrupted for around 3 minutes during the first nationwide test of the emergency broadcast system. From the article: ‘On November 9, at 2 PM EST, FEMA will transmit the EAS code for national level emergencies to Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations in the national level of the EAS. The PEP stations will then rebroadcast the alert to the general public in their broadcast vicinity, as well as to the next level of EAS Participants monitoring them. This should continue through all levels of the system, until the national alert has been distributed throughout the entire country.’
I came across William Dillon blog. William has a post describing one of his projects using a SDR receiver to capture audio which he then converts to weather images.
This is an interesting project. He uses the “SoftRock RX Ensemble II Receiver Kit” to receive the NOAA satellite weather pictures.
For more on the project please visit the following link:
http://alternet.us.com/?p=1398
