Satellite presentations/demos for clubs in central North Carolina?
I've done a club presentation (and attempted demo) on satellites at one club in western-central NC this year, and have another one scheduled in about 10 days at a second club (and currently working out the logistics for a third club in western NC in October).
At the Shelby NC Hamfest two days ago, I was approached by a member of still another club - and was introduced to someone else from yet another club - about doing satellite presentations for those clubs - no time table, could even be done next year..
Both of the latter are in the Charlotte area; one meets on the first Monday night of each month, and the other on the third Monday night.
I'm willing to do both, but I was wondering if there was someone more centrally located in NC who might want to pick up the gauntlet! I'm near Asheville; one of them is at best 2 hours away, and the other 2.5-2.75 hours away.
I've been doing these as a Satellite 101 course, and I'll be glad to share with you the documents I've created (which you are free to modify); one being a short Word document on how/where to listen (and track) the FM birds and ISS, and an approximately 25 slide PowerPoint giving more background and discussing transmitting to both FM/ISS and the analog birds.
So, if you're in central NC and want to help spread the word, please contact me off-list. I really would appreciate the help!
TNX de Philip N4HF [email protected]
Hi Philip,
I'm in Illinois so can't help personally with appearances in North Carolina. There are some additional resources on the AMSAT web which might help with demonstrations.
https://www.amsat.org/station-and-operating-hints/
I had the Fedex/Kinkos shop in town print copies of the Fox-1 Operating Guide for a club presentation. I referred the audience to this page so they could print copies at home if any of the other documents interested them.
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM [email protected]
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Philip Jenkins [email protected] wrote:
I've done a club presentation (and attempted demo) on satellites at one club in western-central NC this year, and have another one scheduled in about 10 days at a second club (and currently working out the logistics for a third club in western NC in October).
At the Shelby NC Hamfest two days ago, I was approached by a member of still another club - and was introduced to someone else from yet another club - about doing satellite presentations for those clubs - no time table, could even be done next year..
Both of the latter are in the Charlotte area; one meets on the first Monday night of each month, and the other on the third Monday night.
I'm willing to do both, but I was wondering if there was someone more centrally located in NC who might want to pick up the gauntlet! I'm near Asheville; one of them is at best 2 hours away, and the other 2.5-2.75 hours away.
I've been doing these as a Satellite 101 course, and I'll be glad to share with you the documents I've created (which you are free to modify); one being a short Word document on how/where to listen (and track) the FM birds and ISS, and an approximately 25 slide PowerPoint giving more background and discussing transmitting to both FM/ISS and the analog birds.
So, if you're in central NC and want to help spread the word, please contact me off-list. I really would appreciate the help!
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