Between celebrating the 50th anniversary of the JSCARC with a special event and with the ongoing NASA On The Air operating our mailbox certainly has been consistently full with QSL cards over the last 6 months.
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More T-Hunt Photos
Our Saturday T-Hunt. 3 Foxes. 2meters. newbies and experts. A third tricky hidden transmitter. KB5PGY is our best hound. More, please!
Notice: Repeater Tone Changing
Note: effective immediately, the repeater will have a tone of 123.0 (transmit and receive).
JSCARC Foxhunting Recap
On Saturday, May 12th, members gathered at Gilruth to take part in JSCARC’s first fox hunt during CQ WW Foxhunting Weekend.
Reminder: Transmitter Hunt this Saturday (5/12)
Just a reminder we will have a transmitter hunt this Saturday (5/12) starting around 10:30am at Gilruth.
5/10 Monthly Meeting Information
Brown Bag Lunch Meeting: 11:00am–12:00pm CT in Building 45, Room 128.
Evening Meeting: 6:30pm–8:30pm CT at the Gilruth Center Inspiration Room.
T-Hunt Overview Part 2 (Handi-Finder)
AB5SS will kickoff a T-Hunting event for the club on May 12. He’s found a very useful Direction Finder project kit, called the HANDI-Finder, which utilizes a simple CMOS oscillator to continuously switch your Handheld FM radio between two small wire loop antennas made from wire coat hangers. Due to this phase-difference detection scheme, by adding a small handle and turning it, a very sharp positional null can used to help one locate a signal’s direction. It’s a perfect small project for T-Hunting. The current pricing is $27.95 +$6 shipping which is a nice sweet spot for a DIY project.
T-Hunt Overview Part 1
The club will soon embrace the T-Hunting bug. T-hunting is a term for Transmitter-hunting or “Fox Hunting”. A secret transmitter(s) is/are hidden at an undisclosed location, and participants use their HT or other exotic devices to hunt it down.
4/18 ARISS Audio Downlink
Here’s an audio clip of Mike N8MTV’s successful tracking and downlink of the ISS ARISS station NA1SS and KD2IFR, from the W5RRR Satellite Station. This was a scheduled ARISS school contact with the Central Islip Union Free School District, Central Islip, NY on April 18.
The school is described as, ” – Home of the Musketeers and a proud Suffolk County, New York school system, where approximately 8,000 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12 receive their formal education. Our School District’s motto is Children Our Future ~ Diversity Our Strength. The Central Islip Union Free School District is comprised of eight schools: one district-wide early childhood center, four elementary schools, two middle schools and a high school.”
4/12 ISS SSTV Images at W5RRR
From Mike, N8MTV.
“Enjoy! .. thought this would be great to show to the club. The first image started recording as the ISS was rising, hence the noise at the top of the image. Transmission stopped well in advance of setting over the horizon, so the next two images are decent.