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CCARC NEWS 14-19

CCARC NEWS 14-19

THE PERIODIC NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRAL COAST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

ISSUE No 14-19 23rd May 2014

In this Issue:

  1. Working Bee
  2. Lecture for May
  3. Upcoming Meetings
  4. New Ham Radio Digital Mode
  5. Ham radio: Old technology gets new respect
  6. History This Week
  7. Broke & fixed
  8. Reminders

 

 

1. Working Bee at Somersby

 

A productive time was had by those who were able to attend.  Work was carried out to improve the fence security, to tidy up the grounds, to remove scrub which was becoming overgrown and to take away rubbish.  Many thanks to those who participated and especially to Karen VK2AKB whose untiring work through the day put the fellas to shame.

 

 

 2. Lecture for May

 

ACARSThis months lectures is:

This Saturday 24th May 2014  at 1300

“SDR Radio and Aeroplane Tracking Radar” by Victor VK2BTV

 

 

3. Upcoming Meetings

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There will be a Wicen meeting on Saturday the 31st May at 1300 hrs.

The next monthly business meeting will be on Saturday the 7th June starting at 1330 hrs following a BBQ lunch at 1200 hrs.  All are invited to attend. Please support your club and enjoy the food and the company.

 

 

4. New Ham Radio Digital Mode

The ROS software FHSS Mode is a new HF digital mode based on FHSS-CDMA modulation

It uses 16 different CDMA codes with 1.8 seconds per Hop.
Every transmission uses a different CDMA code randomly chosen.

Further information at
http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/new-digital-mode-fhss-mode/

ROS Weak Signal Radio Chat and Opera Weak signal QRSS Beacon can be downloaded from http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/

 

 

5. Ham radio: Old technology gets new respect

 

emergencyFox TV News reports that emergency managers seeking reliable backup communication in a crisis are finding new solutions in an old technology: ham radio

“It’s just another avenue, another opportunity for us to be able to communicate,” said Herb Schraufnagel KK4LRJ, public safety captain with Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta.

Emory HealthCare is among a growing number of hospital systems to adopt ham radio. Hospital administrators and government officials took a lesson from Hurricane Katrina, which left some Gulf Coast medical centers isolated from the outside world, as landlines and cell towers failed.

Watch the Fox TV News report at
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/05/19/ham-radio-old-technology-gets-new-respect/

 

 

6. History This Week

 

A look back at events that made history this week – compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

Monday, 19 May, 2014

1825 The electromagnet in a practical form was first exhibited by its inventor, William Sturgeon.
1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes first telegraph line.
1844 Samual F.B. Morse taps out “What hath God wrought” (1st telegraph message)
1844 First telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
1857 The first U.S. patent for an “electromagnetic fire alarm telegraph for cities” was issued to W F Channing of Boston, Mass.
1862 A field telegraph was used for the first time in U.S. warfare.
1874 T. A. Edison was issued a patent for a device concerning “Automatic Telegraphy and in Perforators Therefor.”
1906 LH Perlman of New York City applied for a patent for his invention of the demountable tyre-carrying rim.
1906 The brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright received a patent for “new and useful improvements in Flying Machines”
1908 First passenger flight in an airplane
1916 Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity presented
1946 Patent filed in US for H-Bomb

 

 

BROKE & FIXED

No items for Broke & Fixed this week – all CCARC infrastructure is operational.

 

REMINDERS

This section lists important announcements and possibly items from previous CCARC NEWS editions that are still current and may need your input:

Jaycar Tuggerah & Erina will give CCARC members a trade discount – approx 10% on purchases over $25.  Make sure you ask for it. Thanks Rod VK2LAX and Col VK2ZCO.

Anyone reading this on the website who is not yet a member of the CCARC, please consider joining by emailing ccarc at ccarc dot org dot au for full details.

For submissions to this newsletter from CCARC club members please email the editor news-editor at ccarc dot org dot au

For what’s coming up in the next few months at the CCARC, please check the club calendar, accessible from the header on any page on the website.

Dave VK2DLS … News & Publicity Officer …

 

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