Hi,
How have you been?
I will participate in organizing another AMSAT-DC workshop this spring or summer if there is enough interest. To hold a workshop we need firm support and action in all three categories of planning, conducting and attending/attendance.
Focus: To BUILD AND TEST something.
Pick one from the following:
1. a PICetSat II flight module on a printed (thru-hole) circuit board of my design similar to that module shown at http://simsat.net/carrollsat/ or
2. the SDR SoftRock Ensemble RXTX transceiver of a tried and true design, as shown at http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/ensemble/ or
3. the BETA model SoftRock VHF receiver as shown at http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/ensemble_rx_ii_vhf/ or
4. the SDR Cube transceiver as shown at http://www.sdr-cube.com/ or
5. a photovoltaic system battery charging regulator for two 12V deep-cycle 90AH batteries for an array size of TBD at a cost of under TBD. However, we will need a knowledgeable volunteer to contact me ASAP to lead this Emergency Communications task.
Such a workshop for any of these five projects will take nearly a whole day on which to make good progress. We need a free or low cost place. (I have a free facility in GSFC Greenbelt which I can obtain for us but it will require passing through Security like we did for our workshop last time.) BUT, . . .
Is there enough interest?
PLEASE RESPOND soon, by Tuesday, February 7, 5 PM, to this public amsat-dc list (preferred) or privately (to me at [email protected]).
I will need good help, a good team. It can be a great time. A great opportunity! Please pass the word.
Will you help or attend? What part or parts? Can you provide actionable intelligence? :)
Or thoughts?
Thank you!
Cheers,
Pat Kilroy N8PK AMSAT Area Coordinator Maryland-DC Area
P.S. For anyone who wishes to conduct a gathering of topics/discussion/papers/showNtell like that of yester-year then I will help as an advisor, facility option provider and an MC, but you will plan and conduct all other operations. Any takers? Serious inquiries only on this particular topic, please.
----------------------------------------- Mr. Patrick L. Kilroy Flight Systems Integration and Test (I&T) Building 5, Mail Code 568 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland 20771 Phone: 301-286-1984 E-mail: [email protected] -----------------------------------------
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