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Spring 2014 Workshop Agenda Proposal (Need Your Feedback!)
by Kilroy, Patrick L. (GSFC-5680) 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

Hi all, The title of our next workshop will likely be similar to last year's workshop but with a new twist: "AMSAT-DC Workshop on Portable Satellite Ground Station Development" where ... This time I'd like to propose that each of us attending will ASSEMBLE and test a small 437 MHz circularly polarized Yagi antenna. We will each set up our own portable ground station for display (again) and share with others our developments achieved since last year, OR share your development plans for the coming summer. I assume the cost of materials will be under $50 USD, and we will "build to print." THOUGHTS? ... IDEAS? ... Would you buy in to this? Or do you have an alternate task idea in mind to suggest? To pull this off, I will need some help. Can you help organize this construction task to make it so? Please call now! Thank you, Pat Kilroy, N8PK AMSAT Area Coordinator MDC Area P.S. Last year's Workshop announcements: http://patkilroy.com/amsat-dc/ P.P.S. Soon I will send out the final DATES that we must select from for our workshop! P.P.P.S. An alternate idea might be to assemble an Az-El rotator system like the one presented by David Bern, W2NLX, but it might not be ripe for prime time until the following year.

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