Friends:
I am planning to attend the ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications
Conference (DCC) near the end of September
http://www.tapr.org/dcc.html
Gary Pearce, KN4AQ of HAM RADIO NOW
HamRadioNow.tv <http://www.HamRadioNow.tv>
is planning to video record the conference but he is asking for our help
to make this happen
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/860504337/hamradionow-video-coverage-of…
The schedule of the DCC talks is
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Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:47:46 -0400
From: Stan Horzepa <stanzepa(a)sbcglobal.net>
To: tapr-announce(a)tapr.org
Subject: [tapr-announce] DCC Updates
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*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
***
*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.
***
*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, G?HWW
"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, AB?DO
"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.
Thank you,
David, W2LNX
This is the second call for papers for the 2013 AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space
Symposium to be held on the weekend of November 1 - 3, 2013, at the Marriott
Hobby Airport Hotel, Houston, Texas. Proposals for papers, symposium
presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to
the amateur satellite community. We request a tentative title of your
presentation as soon as possible, with final copy to be submitted by October 1
for inclusion in the printed proceedings. Abstracts and papers should be sent
to Dan Schultz at n8fgv(a)amsat.org
Dan Schultz N8FGV