AmateurLogic.TV

The 2011 AmateurLogic.TV field day episode should be posted in the next 24 hours. We had a great time. Join us for some fun!

Providing the weather holds out (and it looks like it will), the AmateurLogic crew will be setting up and running our own Field Day stations this weekend from a rural location. We will be 100% off the grid and in the wilderness.
For anyone who would like to arrange a contact with us, we will be monitoring the 145.45 (77Hz)repeater in Sharon, MS. The Echolink call is W5PPB-R, node number 505809.

We will be operating under the call W5JDX.

Good luck in the contest…

The first episode of Bob Heil’s (K9EID) Ham Nation video cast is now available. The guests on this premier show are Joe Walsh, WB6ACU and David Jennings, WJ6W. Great show…

The Olde Towne Middle School Radio and Technology Club from Ridgeland, MS is proud to be launching what is most likely the state’s first near-space balloon from a non-college school! The launch status is GO for right now and the weather is looking breezy but good. The students rigged up a practice payload chain today and everything was tested and is working great! We want reception reports from both HF and VHF modes. We are going to plot all reception reports so the students can see where the signals were in relation to our location.

The AmateurLogic.TV crew plan on attending and taping the event.

Date: Saturday March, 26

Time: setup 7:45am Central time with a launch between 9:00 and 9:30am
Central time

Location: Madison County Career and Technical Center, Madison, MS

Here are all of the transmitters and beacons:

· APRS – Argent Data Systems Balloon Module

144.390 with a call sign of KC5NXD-11

· VHF Voice Beacon – DF Doppler Instruments – Special message
from one of our members

146.565 FM simplex (theoretical range is about 400 miles at
altitude)

· HF Telemetry Module – designed and constructed by WB8ELK
– 14.079 USB with a +1500 on the digital waterfall. The optimum program is a specially modified Fldigi called dl-fldigi which you can download at http://code.google.com/p/dl-fldigi/
When configured correctly it will send telemetry to a server to track online.

Telemetry is in 4 modes 2 of which are full streams

Domino-ex16 full telemetry

RTTY is 8-bit ASCII 110 baud full telemetry

CW – altitude

Hellschreiber – Altitude

If you receive telemetry stream after the balloon has landed please email it to [email protected].
For the latest on the launch follow us on twitter under the name kc5nxd.

We will attempt to stream live video from ustream.comwith the username kc5nxd.

On February 10, 2011, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, introduced H.R. 607, the “Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011,”.

Most of the Amateur 70-cm spectrum would be auctioned off as a result of this bill passing.

You can read more about it here.

Please take a few moments and write your congressmen about this important issue. The ARRL has a sample letter and details on how the deliver it here.

AmateurLogic.TV Episode 30 is now available for download.
We visit the 2011 Capital City Hamfest in Jackson, MS. We talked with old and new friends and got a look at the new Omega-Tec low profile antennas. Plus your viewer email and facebook post.

31.57 of Hamfest fun.
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AmateurLogic.TV Episode 29 is now available for download.
In this long awaited episode we show you how to add an IF Output to the Kenwood TS-2000 for use with a SDR. Peter demonstrates his Puxing 777 Handi Talkie. And Tommy shows us some Online Receivers. Plus your viewer email and facebook post.

45:58 of Ham Radio fun.
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In episode 28 Charlie gave us a demo of www.camradio.net.
Since that time the East Coast CamRadio Net group has moved. The new frequency is 3770 KHz. This is in the Extra Class license portion of the 80 meter band which is also allocated to European amateurs. The West Coast group remains on 3820 KHz.

Details are available at www.camradio.net .

AmateurLogic Xtra 1 is now available for download.
Apple recently release the iOS version 4 update. For iPhone 3GS and 4 users the update works fine. However many iPhone 3G owners have complained about their device becoming considerably slower after upgrading. Tommy shows us how to restore the iPhone 3G to iOS version 3 and reclaim it’s previous speed.
7:32

It’s Summer here so we’ve taken a short break. Look for more full length AmateurLogic.TV episodes coming this Fall.

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Attention iPod, iPhone and iPad user!
AmateurLogic.TV is now available on iTunes. Just search for amateurlogic or click this link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/amateurlogic-tv-video/id269068871