-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tapr-announce] DCC Updates Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:47:46 -0400 From: Stan Horzepa stanzepa@sbcglobal.net To: tapr-announce@tapr.org

*DCC Updates*

Time is running out. The DCC is September 20-22 in Seattle and the special DCC room rate at the host hotel, the Cedarbrook Lodge, ends at August 28, 5 PM PDT, so make your reservations ASAP. Here is the link for the hotel: http://www.tapr.org/dcc.html/#hotel

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*Banquet Speaker and Sunday Seminar*

Our Saturday evening banquet speaker is Tom Van Baak, whose speech is titled "Passion and Precision: Adventures of a Time Nut."

Our Sunday morning seminar will be about programming Androids and will be presented by Ron Frohne, KL7NA.

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*Submitted Papers *

Submitted papers for the DCC are, as follows:

"(CAB) Controllable Altitude Balloon Proposal" by Pedro Converso, LU7ABF

"A Software Defined Radio for Mesh Networks" by John B. Stephensen, KD6OZH

"Applications and Infrastructure for Marathon Support" by Erik Westgard, NY9D

"DATV-Express -- a Testing Report" by Art Towslee, WA8RMC and Ken Konechy W6HHC

"Evaluating OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N over D-STAR" by John Ronan, EI7IG and Darren Long, GØHWW

"Gnuradio Companion module for openHPSDR Hermes / Metis SDR Radio" by Tom McDermott, N5EG

"High Performance BPSK31: Ideas for a New Generation" by John A. Gibbs, NN7F

"Modulation -- Demodulation Software Radio" by Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW and Guy Roels, ON6MU

"Narrowband IP over Amateur Radio Networks (NIPARnets): Next-Generation Networking for Amateur Radio" by Timothy J. Salo, ABØDO

"Noise Power Ratio (NPR) Testing of HF Receivers" by Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB4OJ

"Raspberry Pi Applications in Digital Communications: A Mobile Xastir-Based APRS Station" by John A. Hansen, W2FS

"Whitebox Handheld Software Radio Kit" by Chris Testa, KD2BMH

Our Saturday evening banquet speaker is Tom Van Baak, whose speech is titled "Passion and Precision: Adventures of a Time Nut."

Our Sunday morning seminar about programming Androids will be presented by Ron Frohne, KL7NA.