Hello.

Some of you were not on the initial mailings, but you are now!

At 1500 local time on Saturday, June 24th (a week from today), we'll
be having a meeting of people interested in resuscitating the OU ham
club.

Some of you will notice that this is smack dab in the middle of the
ARRL Field Day operating event and, in fact, we will meet at the SCARS
Field Day site located at Reaves Park (S Jenkins Ave, across from the
home of the back-to-back NCAA Champion Women's Softball Team field).

Kim, N5OP, the club advisor will be there and, in addition to
organizational matters, we'll discuss the status of the ham antenna on
the roof of the NWC.

If you are in town this summer, please try to attend.  Hang around
long enough at Field Day and SCARS will feed you.  You can also
operate the radios as well.

Should be fun and, from what I understand the temperature will be 140
F with 127% humidity!

73,
Peter
N5UWY

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Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Peter Laws <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So, here we are, nearly 6 months later.  Last time I tried this, Mom
> broke her hip and we had to rush off to "VE3" land.  Mom is doing
> better, now,  though she's past Assisted Living/Memory Care and my
> sister is looking for an actual nursing home for here.  *sigh*.  Most
> of you won't have to worry about this for years or decades.  Be
> thankful!  :-)
>
> So.  Radio.  And yes, some of you are seeing this for the first time.
>
> ARRL Field Day is the 4th Full Weekend in June every year, so this
> year it's on the 24th and 25th.  SCARS will be set up as the usually
> are at Reaves Park just off Jenkins Ave, north of Constitution.  Maybe
> we could all meet up there?  Assuming you all are around for the
> summer, anyway.
>
> I already have an idea for a program for a fall meeting:  Prof Tobin
> in PhysAst has a Simple Radio Telescope on top of Neilsen Hall.  :-)
> https://www.nhn.ou.edu/srt/  The best part is that it uses a RTL2832U
> type $20 SDR dongle as the receiver (listening around the Hydrogen
> line about 1400 MHz).  Total budget was <$10k and a lot of that was
> for the pedestal and pointing device ... so it's more for outreach
> than for hard science but how cool is that?  The URL above is
> real-time with a camera ...
>
> We've also got people in SoM and/or NSSL working on lightning
> detection at RF and a whole RIL full of people transmitting "on the
> Ultra highs" (OK, actually the Super Highs).
>
> Maybe we, as the ham club, can cross-pollinate these groups since
> there will almost surely be common points that they all need to
> address?  And, of course, we'll get them licensed, too!
>
> So would a Field Day meeting be good?  Or are people interested in
> getting together sooner?  Even if we don't meet to plot strategy, you
> all should attend Field Day and operate anyway.  SCARS is always
> looking for people to operate radios and there is even a Get On The
> Air ("GOTA") station specifically for newbies.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> Peter
> N5UWY
> Past-treasurer of OUARC
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> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
> [log in to unmask]
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Peter Laws <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Red, Will, and Grace, all of ECE, passed the Technician test last night.
>>
>> <pause for round of applause>
>>
>> All are keen to see something happen with OUARC.   Me too.
>>
>> Rather than put this out on OUARC-L or FB/Tweeterer, I thought I'd go direct.
>>
>> My thought is for some sort of organizational meeting and my thought
>> rolled around to the upcoming holiday honoring the birth of the
>> Reverend Dr Martin Luther King, Monday the 16th.  I thought maybe we
>> could meet and consume food, say pizza or something, and talk about
>> what we want to do.  There IS money in the club treasury to pay for
>> said food ...
>>
>> Once we nail down a time/place, we'll put it out more generally
>> (email, social media).
>>
>> 73,
>> Peter
>> N5UWY
>>
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>> --
>> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY
>> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center
>> University of Oklahoma Information Technology
>> [log in to unmask]