Alpha Sigma Delta Radio Society – W5TC

Meeting started at 7:01 pm

12 attendees including our speaker,  Ken Brown N5KUK

General Business: 

Tuscani Pizza for dinner!

Addressing the email situation: sign in with/email Victoria

Outreach opportunities:

• Cycling event March 9^th and 10^th
• OKC Memorial Marathon

Need License? contact Carrey

Tshirts:

• Design: taking pre-orders
• Using some for fundraisers
• $10-15
• Will be in before spring break

Ham Holiday Update – Carrey

• CORA holds every year
• Past month
• Bricktown Hotel on Reno, OKC
• Carrey toured the convention area
• Green Fest possibilities

ARRL DX Contest

• Carrey spoke briefly about details
• Contact for more info

Weekly Net

• Every two weeks vs. more than once a month?
• Decided on Mondays at 7:30pm where those wanting to participate can come in on Mondays that best fit their schedule

W5TC Website: w5tc.org
Meeting Reminders will be sent out via email

• Our next meeting will be March 26^th
• April Meeting: Cookout at Elmore’s
• Will be moved to May 4^th  (after confirmation from Elmore) right before OU Finals week

Next Testing session

• March 7^th @ 7 pm
• NWC
• Potential Upgrade testing session after Spring Break (after next meeting)

 

Ken Brown introduces D-STAR

Repeater at the NWC

• Shout out to Jim McClellan and his contribution

Digital Smart Technology for Amateur Radio

• Developed by the Japan Am. Radio League & Emergency Managers with emergency communications in mind
• ICOM is currently only manufacturer
• Built in GPS, voice synthesizer, built in call sign ‘caller ID’
• Digital modulation GMSK-minimal shift keying
• Half amount of space that a FM system does
• 480 bits/sec
• GPS data is encoded

Sends out a header with DSTAR message

• Transmits before voice
•  Your callsign
• Other station’s callsign
• Callsign of first & second repeater you’ll go through

Gateway computer, where magic begins

• DV Dongle plugs into USB port on computer reports onto a Gateway and will connect to other reflectors
• Future because of narrow bandwidth capabilities
• Alabama has the highest US amount of use for emergency use

Able to link a lot of people quickly in a large net over a wide area via repeaters

• Everybody hears everything
• Able to set up your own intranet 120 kbits/sec of bandwidth
• dstarinfo.com

Oklahoma Norman W5TC Gateway

• Linked practiced in meeting
• How to unlink
• How to echo what was said

You are able to check out radios through the club!

 

73,

Victoria Ford

KF5TTZ

O*ARC Secretary