Hello. More like welcome back to the team. I've been a member off and on since the second time we met. I wasn't able to make it to the Devonian Gardens for the first one.
It is legal to have a satellite you just need to follow a couple of rules regarding command and control. If you are interested you can look at Amsat-NA http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php And for specific satellites you can Google AO-51 and VO-52 which are current dedicated ham radio satellites. The German Amsat club is seriously looking at a Mars mission. You can't lose a satellite, the United States Airforce Space Command tracks all items in Earth orbit and publishes orbital data for most of them (certain satellites get excluded for obvious reasons, however there are amateurs who publish their own data for those ones). The Amsat website republishes the orbital data for the amateur radio satellites. I should start thinking about a presentation on Linux and Amateur radio, however it'll be a few months before I can do anything. What sorts of things would people be interested in Here are some topics I could talk on Satellites, tracking and digital modes HF Digital (long range but generally low speed digital data transmission) VHF Digital (shorter range but generally higher speed digital transmission) I don't own the gear for this Automatic Position Reporting (A confluence of GPS, Computers and Amateur Radio) Insane DSP based weak signal work (how to talk to Australia using 500mW and some bailing wire) Amateur Radio in General Any interest in these topics? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bogi Sent: September-15-09 2:35 AM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT: Amateur Radio - Flea Market Advice well taken. will stick to the known and tested :-) ** I have seen fairly recently a Lubuntu :: it is basically an Ubunto with a lobotomy ... just kidding, but it seems to use LXDE and takes like 53Megs to fully run, compared to the fully brained ubuntu @130Megs or so. Serial ports are alive and well under linux, the problem usually is, where to get a computer that still has them :-) Welcome to the team, BTW, and i think, we could use your expertise in a presentation in the future, i guess you will have to take it up with the exec, to set the schedule.. Is it even legal to have a satellite ... whatever. There must be some nifty tools to track them. It would suck, if you just loose your satellite in like low earth orbit ... Cheers Szemir On September 13, 2009 01:46:06 pm Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > I forgot to mention, another good demo is satellite tracking. Hams have > managed to launch several small satellites over the years and they operate > through them. Satellite tracking is a good visually impressive demo, > especially if the tools are free. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Craig McLean > Sent: September-13-09 1:38 PM > To: 'CLUG General' > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT: Amateur Radio - Flea Market > > Hello. > > I am an amateur radio enthusiast. I recommend that you stay away from the > less well known distributions. Stick to Fedora and Ubuntu. I know from > experience that every ham has a horror story about how they tried some > obscure distribution and gave up and went back to Windows or even DOS (hams > can be very conservative, despite the technical nature of the hobby) > because they couldn't get any documentation on it. I know that you can > argue that many of the obscure distributions are derivatives of more > mainstream systems, but most hams won't know that and more importantly they > won't care. > > Stick to the mainstream distributions > Fedora > Ubuntu > Xbuntu (once again from experience most hams like to keep old hardware > going) > > Make sure you know how to configure serial ports, most ham equipment still > uses serial ports not USB. An inability to configure serial ports is the > number one thing that causes computer problems for hams on any OS. This is > hard to over state. There are alot of hams who got their DX Cluster and > TNC working on a DOS machine in 1988, and they have never changed because > of this. > > Make sure you know how to configure the line in on the distributions sound > control panel. The major trend in ham radio right now is the use of the > sound card as a digital signal processor. > > Try to be up to date on GPS related technology in Linux. Amateur radio has > a mode known as APRS. This is basically a GPS receiver attached to a radio > through a device known as a TNC. This enables hams to broadcast their > position, and other data like weather information. This makes GPS and the > processing and display of GPS data a big deal for alot of hams. Especially > members of ARES which is an disaster relief organization that uses ham > radio extensively. There are a lot of ARES people in Calgary. If you want > an interesting demo program check out some sotware called Xastir. It > displays APRS data on linux machines. Data sources can include a TNC > getting data directly from an over the air APRS network, or internet > gateways to the APRS network (this is how I demoed the software a few years > ago). The data stream from the APRS->Internet gateway is not huge and you > can filter it down so some kind of 3G/Edge mobile internet card could > probably work as your connectivity. You don't need to be licensed to do > this. > > I could probably do a presentation on all of this in a few months if > anybody is interested. I have relatively limited time over the next few > weeks to assist with the table at the flew market. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of bogi > Sent: September-12-09 1:42 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT: Amateur Radio - Flea Market > > I am for the installFest .. The main caveat is power ... can we get power > and > rule the world or not :-) We need power ... and it is too early in the > morning > > :-) > > Szemir > > On September 12, 2009 01:24:44 am TekBudda wrote: > > bogi wrote: > > > well, so far no contact yet. The donation box sounds like a good idea. > > > I can burn a bunch of Mandriva And Fedora DVDs ... Now , given that the > > > event has some time , what is we order some Ubuntu disks, they could be > > > here by then ... Also, assuming we will not have power, could arrange > > for > > > > an inverter or something we could present Linux on a running computer > > ... > > > > Maybe if we can has power :-) > > > Cheers > > > Szemir > > > > > > Ps.:There is opportunity to prepare and organize before bill C60 is > > > passed you know ... i mean the flea market opens ... > > > > Just a thought, but maybe we could do a mini InstallFest there as well. > > Take one of the distro's & show people how easy it is to install > > live! The Linpus disk I have are a Fedora deriatve and are all > > pre-labelled. I have at least a couple hundred. I haven't had a lot of > > time to play with them yet, but am hoping to on of these days! 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