SARA This Week: May 17 – May 23
ALL IN-PERSON ACTIVITIES REMAIN CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!
SARA’s on-air activities continue to be a great way with others and check on their wellness as well as a boost of your own overall wellness. Those on-air activities provide healthy social contact while maintaining personal distancing.
The Thursday Technical Topic (TTT) session highlights this week’s activities. This week we will take a look at a facet of radio monitoring known as ADS-B air traffic tracking. Using a pair of RTL-SDR dongles, Collin KE0IYN monitors air traffic data received from the ADS-B beacons installed in nearly all aircraft and feeds that information to a service that allows others to follow air traffic movements worldwide. Collin will share his knowledge and experiences to the group during our Webex technical topic video meeting Thursday evening.
- 1. SARA HF Digital Net Sunday May 17
- Time: 19:00 Central (00:00 UTC)
- Frequency: 3.543 CW
- Mode: CW
- NCS: KCØOIO
- NCS and others participating in the Digi Net monitor the SARA repeater 147.060+ DCS/DCTS 026 Normal during the net to provide assistance as needed. NOTE: This is the final session of the SARA HF Digital Net for the season as the net goes into summer hiatus until October. This session will be in CW mode!
- 2. SARA Top Band Ragchew
- Nightly
- Time: 20:00 Central (01:00 UTC)
- Frequency: 1.966 LSB +/- QRM
- 3. SARA Monday Morning Ragchew May 18
- Time: 08:15 Central (13:15 UTC)
- Frequency: 3.856 LSB +/- QRM
- 4. The Lunch Room
- Daily (Monday thru Friday for sure, but jump on Saturday and Sunday if you want)
- Time: 12:00 Central
- SARA Repeater 147.060+ MHz (DCS/DTCS 026 Normal)
- The Lunch Room is a weekday lunch-hour ragchew open to all amateur radio operators
- 5. SARA Two Meter Tuesday (TMT) Round Robin Ragchew May 19
- Time: 7:00 – ~8:00 pm (or until we finish!)
- SARA Repeater 147.060+ MHz (DCS/DTCS 026 Normal)
- The Tuesday evening on-air round robin ragchew
- An HF Afterglow follows on 160 meters at 1.966 MHz LSB +/- QRM
- 6. SARA Two Meter Wednesday Round Robin Ragchew May 20
- Time: 9:00 PM
- SARA Repeater 147.060+ MHz (DCS/DCTS 026 Normal)
- The Wednesday evening SARA Ragchew on the SARA repeater continues with primary host Rick KØBRThe Wednesday evening SARA Ragchew on the SARA repeater continues with primary host Rick KØBR
- 7. SARA Two Meter Thursday Round Robin Ragchew May 21
- Time: 7:00 PM
- SARA Repeater 147.060+ MHz (DCS/DTCS 026 Normal)
- The Thursday evening on-air round robin ragchew
- The HF Afterglow beging around 8:00 PM on 160 meters at 1.966 MHz +/- QRM
- 9. SARA’s Thursday Technical Topic “ADS-B Air Traffic Monitoring via RTL-SDR” Thursday May 21
- Time: 7:30 PM
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SARA virtual group discussion via Webex video conference.This week’s session moderator is Collin KEØIYN