Broadcast - 14 May 2023
We begin this week by wishing all our mother members and listeners a Happy Mother’s Day. We trust that you all will be spoilt today by the family.
This week was very light on as far as news was concerned, but we do have one new special event.
Andrew VK7DW, will be enlightening us with a presentation this coming Wednesday club room technical night. Andrew will be covering some aspects of the new Green Cube Sat designated Italy Oscar 117 or IO-117 for short. It was launched from French Guiana in July 2022 for Sapienza University of Rome, to “Test an autonomous laboratory for the cultivation of microgreens on-board a CubeSat platform”.
Apart from the environmental and thruster payloads it also carries a 70cm digipeater for amateur radio use!
Andrew is going to chat about what the satellite is and how “us” amateurs can use the digipeater for QSO's. He will also be covering the downloading of the satellites telemetry packets, I assume a good percentage of these telemetry packets will contain data generated by the on board experiments. Hope to see you there for this “interesting on many levels” presentation.
Mug Order – The next personalised club mug order will be placed later next week, so if there are any last requests please see André VK7ZAB at this week’s club technical night, e-mail the secretary on secretary@ntarc.net or via the NTARC Web site using “Contact Us”.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Club Technical night - The next session will be on Wednesday the 17th of May and will commence at the usual time of 7.30 pm, running through to about 10.30 pm, at the Club room Archer Street, Rocherlea.
Coffee Morning - held every Friday in the NTARC Club rooms. Time is from 10am to noon and we look forward to seeing you all there. Why not pop in and join us for a cuppa there is endless tea and coffee along with biscuits available for a donation.
The TestNet and TechNet session - Wednesday the 24th of May. TestNet/CW course on 3.580MHz from 7pm till 7.30pm…. and a TechNet on 3.567MHz from 7.30pm till about 8.30pm. Your host for the evening will be Nic VK7WW.
FINALLY - A reminder to all members that if you have any items of news you would like added to our weekly roundup, no matter how trivial, then please email them to the Secretary at the following address news@ntarc.net all items to be received no later than 5pm on the Friday prior to the Broadcast.
That’s all folks,
73 from Stefan, VK7ZSB, Secretary NTARC.
