Simulated Emergency Test – S.E.T.
This year’s S.E.T. will take place on Saturday October 1st beginning around 8 AM. Don’t worry whether you are a member of ARES/RACES or not, as any licensed Ham may participate in this drill.
S.E.T. is an ARRL exercise where we get the opportunity to test our skills at providing Emergency Communications to served agencies such as EMD, Red Cross, police/fire, local government, etc. As a drill we get to practice old skills, learn new skills and make mistakes (hopefully learning from them).
Skills we will practicing this year are: Net Control, NCS handover, NTS traffic handling, net liaisons to other nets, Packet, mobile unit tracking, and Direction Finding (Fox Hunt). Be prepared to operate on emergency power (battery/generator) and be prepared to search for a hung transmitter – using directional antennas and triangulation techniques.
Saturday’s event should be a LOT of fun! So please listen on area repeaters early in the morning for the initial callout. (HINT: Some repeaters may not be operational)
— Jay Nugent WB8TKL
ARROW Monthly Breakfast this Saturday
Sat, Sep 24, 2011, 9:00 AM – 12:00
The ARROW monthly breakfast buffet gathering of fellow ARROW members, family and friends in an informal relaxed setting. Location is the “Old Country Buffet” 914 West Eisenhower Pkwy, Ann Arbor 48103
ARROW general meeting presents “The current state of SDR”
NOTE: This months meeting will be held in room LA275 on the campus of Washtenaw Community College from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM on Wednesday September 14th, 2011
“The current state of SDR”
(software defined radio)
Heavily emphasising the TAPR (open) HPSDR project, George K9TRV will use the presentations made at the TAPR Forum at the Dayton 2011 Hamvention made by Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI, and Phil Harman, VK6APH.
‘What is SDR’ will be debated. The TAPR view is that it is ‘DDC’ (direct down conversion) on reception and ‘DUC’ (direct up conversion) on transmit. Yet other possibilities exist (QFD/QFE) which are used by SoftRock, FlexRadio and others. Is your latest ‘top of the line’ radio SDR simply because it uses ‘firmware’ – maybe yes, maybe no. Can any radio with an IF output be dealt with like an SDR? (most likely).
The presenter, George Byrkit, K9TRV, has been working as part of the openHPSDR initiative for 2 years as a software developer. He doesn’t pretend to know all the answers, and would also invite others to make short, 5 minute maximum, presentations following his.
Much of the TAPR-inspired hardware (and software) will be available to be viewed. Actual hands-on demonstrations will be limited by time, and access to functioning antennae.
Please click here for a copy of the handout.
73,
George K9TRV
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