May 2011 Club Meeting
Location : Riverview Fire hall
Date: Thursday May 12
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Guess speaker:: Mr. George Deware.
Former Nay Canada's Airspace Standards Team Leader for the Atlantic Region, Now retired.
Talk on :
Navigating in the dark, how pilots locate airports using electronic navigational systems.
Ham Basic Class 2011
Please have a look at the training area on this web site for more details.
Soldering course and kit building session
Tri-County Club will be hosting a soldering session for those that would like to learn or improve their skill at soldering.
After the soldering session is completed, kit building session will be available.
Date : TBA
Please contact VE1VON if you are interested in attending.
March 2011 Club meeting guess speaker
Topic: Space orbital mechanics
Orbital mechanics
or
astrodynamics
is the application of ballistics and celestial mechanics
to the practical problems concerning the motion of rockets and other spacecraft.
Learn how to locate the ISS International Space Station and other amateur radio satellites.
ARISSat-1 / Microsat
ARISSat-1 is a microsat developed as a follow-on to the SuitSat-1 project.
The satellite was launched to the ISS on January 28th, 2011, with deployment during an EVA (spacewalk) on February 16, 2011.
The satellite will downlink live SSTV images from four onboard cameras, live telemetry and messages on the CW,
FM voice, and BPSK downlinks, as well as provide a 16kHz wide transponder for two-way contacts.
All the uplinks and downlinks are based on software defined radio systems.
Telemetry will include spacecraft subsystem information, as well as data from the Kursk State University experiment.
This experiment will sample the change in vacuum as the satellite slowly re-enters the atmosphere.
A few Links:
the Suitsat2 now titled "Arissat-1"
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/index.php
http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/satInfo.php?satID=136&retURL=/satellites/status.php
http://www.heavens-above.com
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2011/arissat_bpsk_software.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNM290k7-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDfSCw6VcU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9pP46AsIAk
Club Meeting February 12,2011
At our February meeting Tobie Boutot VE9XAB from the NB rocketry club gave a
very interesting talk on high power rocketry and the electronic system to manage the flight and tracking.
Links:
http://nbrocketry.wikispaces.com/ (Public)
http://www.rocketrycanada.org/
Maritime Missiles (Saint John, NB) http://www.menkar.org/MaritimeMissiles/index.html
Tri-County Club annual Breakfast
Date: January 29,2011 (08h30 to 10h00)
Location: Homestead Restaurant, Riverview
Cost: Each person participating will be expected to pay for their own breakfast.
Please contact VE1VON if you plan on attending to ensure that we have sufficient booking for seats
Update:
The club breakfast was a great success, we had to add two additional tables to accommodate everybody.
Club Meeting of January 8, 2011
At our January meeting we were fortunate to get a member of the Canadian Red Cross Disaster Management Team.
A talk was given on preparing you and your family for disasters for a period of 72 hours.
Link:
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=33841&tid=001
Tri-County Amateur radio Club Technical Sessions
(OPEN TO ALL AMATEUR OPERATORS)
Tri-County Amateur Radio club will be hosting technical sessions
to help hams adapt to Bill 4 hands free law.
These technical sessions will be open to all amateurs
club members and non club members.
Feel free to drop by the club house and get advise and help
to modify your mobile radio for hands free operations.
DATE and times -> Sunday January 9 (13h00 to 15h00) and Sunday January 16 (13h00 to 15h00)
Web sites with radio microphone info: http://www.tigertronics.com/sl_wirebm.htm
Links:
http://www.kingsqueak.org/about/amateur-radio/pc-headset-adapter-for-ham-radio/
http://g8jnj.webs.com/Boom%20headset.pdf
http://ke7ate.tripod.com/ft817ptt.html
http://www.mikeyancey.com/Yaesu_Headset.php
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390048586850+
Newly licensed Amateur operator
VE9CEL
Charles Levasseur
Please welcome Charles on the air if you hear him
Club Meeting of November 13 , 2010
We will have two guess speakers at our next club meeting.
Bernie VE9BGC will talk about a yaggi antenna he built recently and Tobie VE9MIB will give us a demo
of a communication trailer he modified.
The meeting will be short to maximize our guess speakers, hope you can come and join us
for this very interesting meeting.
A few pictures of this meeting, wow what great speakers
!
CANWARN Training
CANWARN training will be made available on Thursday September 16,2010.
This training is provided by a member of the Environment Canada hurricane center.
The training will take place at the Codiac RCMP detachment on main street, starting at 19h00 to 20h30.
It is important to note that if you are interested, please make sure you arrive by 19h00.
Someone will be monitoring VE9MTN 147.090+Mhz.
Please contact VE1VON for additional information.
Revitalizing CANWARN in Atlantic Canada
CANWARN is a volunteer organization of amateur radio operators who report severe weather and damage reports to Environment Canada when they see it. Weather reports from amateur radio operators help confirm on the ground what satellites and radars see in the atmosphere.
The information gathered from CANWARN is also used to update and fine tune weather warnings, fill in gaps in current observing networks and is also valuable in forensic storm analysis. When Environment Canada issues severe weather watches or warnings, they may alert the CANWARN volunteer Net Controllers in the affected areas.
The volunteer Net Controllers contact other CANWARN members on the amateur radio, tell them a watch or warning has been issued and ask them to report signs of approaching severe weather.
The weather and damage reports received from CANWARN members can provide key information to weather forecasters during any type of severe weather event. In Atlantic Canada CANWARN can be activated for the following types of events:
Severe Winter Storms including ice storms
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Strong wind or heavy rainfall events -
Storm surge events -
Hurricanes, Tropical Storms or Post-Tropical Storms -
Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Watches -
Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings
Although CANWARN has been in place in New Brunswick for a number of years, it is relatively new to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. A project is now underway which will hopefully revive CANWARN in New Brunswick and introduce the program to the other Atlantic Provinces. The project includes installing a 2-metre amateur radio at the Canadian Hurricane Centre, recruiting new CANWARN members and possibly conducting some training sessions later this year. The next steps will involve gauging interest in CANWARN amongst the amateur radio community through a combination of test activations and real severe weather events. When a CANWARN net is activated in their area, amateurs are encouraged to send in their reports of severe to the Net Controller on frequency who will then pass them on to forecasters at Environment Canada.
New 80-40M dipole now installed
at the Tri-County Club house
Thanks to all that have help make this possible.
ESTATE SALE
Walter Jones estate has asked Hank VE1ANK to assist in the selling of
Walters Kenwood TS450SAT with power supply.
Walter's son is asking $500.00
Please Contact : Stephen Conrad VE9MPF
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Amateur Radio: From hobby to helping those in need By Robert Cherry, VE2AGE. Do you want to know more????
The link below is to one of several articles in the latest edition of SARSCENE magazine, a publication of Canada's Nation Search and Rescue Secretariat: http://www.nss.gc.ca/site/ss/magazine/vol16_3/articles/radio_e.asp . The SARSCENE e-magazine is distributed worldwide to untold thousands of subscribers, most of which are search & rescue practitioners, managers, organizers, suppliers, or supporters. This article shows Amateur radio in a positive light by highlighting emergency services provided by dedicated Ham operators.