Sorry, i will not be able to make it to the event. Szemir On September 15, 2009 09:51:33 pm Craig McLean wrote: > 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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