Ham Radio workshop, Tue 22 Dec, 8-10pm

A 2 hour workshop on the topic by one of our members Aravind Balasubramaniam (VU2ABS), a Ham Radio enthusiast - introduction, presentation and hands-on session.

What do Ham Radio and Trekking have in common? You will figure that one out during the session....

Check out these links to get you interested -

http://www.n5asa.com/ppt/2HamRadio-N5ASA.pps
http://chennaihams.blogspot.com/

Can't make it on your own? Can't stay too late? Need a drop after? Had no dinner? No worries... as usual CTC takes care of everything....

* AGENDA

1. What is Ham Radio?
{ History of Ham
Electro magnetic Spectrum (MF, HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, EHF)
Modes you can use. One world one language (Morse Code) }

2. How to get a licence?
{ Ham Callsign
Ham Jargon }

3. What equipement you will need?
{ Transmitter/Receivers
Antennas
Accessories }

4. What can can you do with Ham Radio?
{ Emergency Communication (2nd Line of Communication to the Govt)
Fun activities
Fox Hunt
Contests
Home Brewing (Build your own stuff)
Hill Topping
Fieldday
Repeaters in India
Famous Hams
Ham Shacks
Software Defined Radio }

5. Ham Radio Demo -
{ Chennai VHF Net,
W4MQ.com demo,
HF demo???) + Video

* LINKS

http://www.n5asa.com/ppt/2HamRadio-N5ASA.pps
http://chennaihams.blogspot.com/

* VENUE

Address
VGP Layout III
62, 2nd main road
Pallavakam, Chennai -41
Ph. 9600004509

My place -
Get onto the ECR
2km after Tirunvanmyur you will see Bharat Petrol / Indian Oil petrol bunks on your left side
100m after this you will see a big arch on your left,
go under the arch and proceed 500m straight till you hit the beach
take right and follow beach, take second road right (bad road, rocks)
100m on the right side

Map -
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100795895206195398252.0004519882c5f895f8943&ll=12.998202,80.240364&spn=0.097682,0.154324&z=13

* TIMING

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Peter Van Geit

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Dec 18, 2009, 1:43:11 AM12/18/09

to The Chennai Trekking Club, Aravind Balasubramanian

50 signed up for our Ham Radio workshop at my home next Tuesday. We are closing further registrations as my living room is full. Stay "tuned" for an educational evening with some interesting demos. Ham Radio technology would be useful for emergency purposes during future CTC treks.

Karthick Ramalingam Ranjan Das Balajee hari kumar balasundaram Narayanan Hariharan Anand Dorapalli Parag N Jain Waseem Vinodha Jeyanthilal Harish R santhosh j Pratiyush Kumar Singh Shikhar Pant Rajesh A S Rishabh Nagendra Ravi Alagappan Vipin M Prafulla Kiran nagamani vasanthan Bharat Routray manojkumar.n vinoth kumar .v Rajkumar D Venkat Nagin Karthick Sundararajan Deepak G Krish Simon Nara Satish Swaminathan Gourav Shah sri Sreedhar Paramasivam Chandru Gurumoorthi Shekhar Rajgaria Sanjay Mullasseri Aswin Sujai madhu Krishna kumar Chakravarthy G V SHINO Dheeraj Suresh Kumar D Anita Bala

Peter.

Peter Van Geit

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Dec 22, 2009, 3:25:52 AM12/22/09

to The Chennai Trekking Club, Aravind Balasubramanian

Reminder on the Ham Radio workshop today 8PM at my place. Please come early to avoid delays.

Aravind is trying set up an HF antenna on my roof so we can try to communicate with the Hamsat (Amateur Radio Satellite made by Indian hams and lauched by ISRO) passing overhead today at 9.41 - 9.55 pm.

Satellite	Start time	Start AZ	Peak time	Peak AZ	Peak EL	End Time	End Az	Length	Visible
HAMSAT (VO-52)	'09:21:52 Dec 22'	15	9:28:27	107	64	9:34:57	186	13	No
HAMSAT (VO-52)	'11:00:27 Dec 22'	321	11:04:12	286	3	11:07:47	252	7	No
HAMSAT (VO-52)	'20:04:03 Dec 22'	119	20:08:53	72	7	20:13:33	27	9	No
HAMSAT (VO-52)	'21:37:59 Dec 22'	180	21:44:39	261	44	21:51:14	339	13	No

Peter.

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