US Naval Academy Amateur Radio Station W3ADO MARS Station NNN0NNN Annapolis, MD
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Also Friday 12/1/00 from 1600Z to 2400Z, the Amateur Radio Club will be providing APRS tracking and SSTV
documentation of the traditional Football Run of the game ball from Annapolis to the PSInet (Ravens) football
stadium in Baltimore. Voice coordination will be on the Anne Arundel Radio Club repeater 147.075+ PL 107.2,
along with SSTV imagery. Look for W3ADO, WB4APR, and USNA callsigns on the 144.39 national
APRS channel or www.aprs.net or www.findu.com
10/5/00 Congratulations to new hams!
Welcome to a great hobby: 9/10/00 Long Distance ROBOT! The midshipmen at W3ADO are preparing a robot that will carry the 101st Army-Navy football from Annapolis to Baltimore (19 miles). The robot will be controlled by the Naval Academy station the entire way, using ATV, SSTV, APRS, and DTMF. See the prototype in construction HERE 8/15/00 OFFICIAL Naval Academy Radio Club given reprieve and re-evaluation in January 2001, thanks to (click here) YOUR support!
9/15/00 Repeater antenna The MARS repeater on 148.400 should be up soon. The mast is up, supporting a simple half-wave vertical, which will be replaced by a Hustler G6 when the move to the 600-foot tower is scheduled. Left to right: T3 (137Mhz circ-polarized sat beam and Cushcraft 2706 2/440 beam) on Yaesu Az-El, T1 (Cushcraft R7000, Diamond X50, GMRS for Public Works, APRS digi half-wave vertical), T5 (MARS repeater), leaning (?) T4 ( 440 collinear vertical and Ringo 2m APRS), T3 (Radio Shack mast supporting MARS HF G5RV) 9/1/00 Become a ham! Next test date TBD in Rickover Hall Room 103 6:30pm-8pm. The USNA Amateur Radio Club periodically offers testing sessions for anyone interested in becoming a licensed Amateur Radio operator. This is a no-fee test being offered to the brigade. The test covers basic knowledge of electronics and FCC rules governing Amateur Radio. You do not need to know Morse Code to take this test. Your basic technician license can be earned from a short 30-question multiple-choice test. For those Systems and EE majors and those who have taken any weapons or EE courses, this material will be a review of what you have already learned. However the test is open to all classes. This license is FCC issued and good for 10 years. For more information or to reserve a seat contact MM1 Waranis ([email protected]) or club president 1/C Russ Meier ([email protected]) by email. Check out this webpage for practice tests: http://w5ac.tamu.edu/~w1agg/hamexam/index.php3 8/25/00 10-meter APRS propagation testsBob WB4APR has procured one of the retail HTX-10 10-meter all-mode (except CW) 25-watt mobile radios (pictures HERE, HERE, and HERE) to test propagation for some local 10-meter simplex links for APRS data and channeled audio.
See what we're doing with APRN (Amateur Picture Relay Network) -- just into Beta testing!
Current equipment (pics coming soon): Links for midshipmen MARS
MARS Operator Study Course
Other Ham
APRN (Amateur Picture Relay Network)Amateur satellite visibility in Annapolis for next 24 hours USNA Earth Station page Anne Arundel Radio Club (AARC) Maryland Mobileers Radio Club HAM exam bank and practice exams QRZ callsign lookup for find addresses to send QSL's Hints to learn (faster) Morse code Basic HAM beginner info QSL homepage: send email to a callsign, or check out a HAM's web page Practice Morse code on the web via Javascript Ham Radio Online magazine Download Supermorse 4.16 here If you have a better morse program, email me the link FCC HAM search by anything (call, zipcode, city, name..., wild card is %)
USNA Support Staff
Point of Contact :
Skip Johnson/K3FOR/NNN0PEK, club advisor
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