-----Original Message----- From: Steven Bible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 13 May 2008 8:49 am Subject: [tapr-announce] TAPR Dayton Hamvention Activities - HPSDR
TAPR DIGITAL Friday, May 17, 2008 9:15 AM - 10:45 AM Forum Room 1 Speaker John Ackermann, N8UR and Phil Harman, VK6APH "Design Considerations for an HPSDR Time Reference" Speaker Steve Bible, N7HPR "How to Submit a Project for Consideration by TAPR" Speaker Steve Bible, N7HPR and Scott Cowling, WA2DFI "Manufacturing for the HPSDR Community: An Update on Penelope and Mercury" Speaker Mel Whitten, K0PFX "Update on Digital Voice" Speaker Matt Ettus, N2MJI "USRP 2008" Dayton SDR Forum Saturday May 17 2008 9:00 A.M. 11:30 A.M. Forum Room 1 Moderator Eric Ellison AA4SW The phenomenal Software Defined Radio paradigm shift continues with a significant number of ³off the shelf¹ as well as amateur hardware offerings. Many programmers are fueling the fire! Come hear the leaders in this movement describe the vast potential of this rapidly advancing technology on ham radio. An Atlas Motherboard, and Ozymandias USB computer interface, the basic building blocks of a High Performance Software Defined Radio will be given away as a door prize, at the end of the session. You must be present to win. Scotty Cowling WA2DFI Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI, was first licensed in 1967 and has been continuously active since that time. He is active in the Maricopa County Emergency Communications Group (MGECG) in Arizona, mostly implementing APRS networks for public service events. Scotty is active while mobile on HF CW and on APRS. Scotty is an advisor for Explorer Post 599, a BSA affiliated ham club for teens in the Phoenix area. Scotty has been involved in the HPSDR project for the last 2 years, and currently serves on the TAPR Board of Directors. He is active in the production of HPSDR components and with other TAPR projects. Hands-on SDR Projects Are you interested in Software Defined Radio but don¹t know where to start? Are you a dyed-in-the-wool experimenter looking for an exciting new project? >From the $10 Softrock Software Defined transceiver to the six-board modular High-Performance Software Defined Radio (HPSDR) project, new technology is here today and waiting for you! Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI, leads the production team at TAPR and is helping to make low cost HPSDR project components available to designers and experimenters. He will give you an overview of hands-on SDR projects and help you jump-start your involvement in SDR projects that are the most exciting thing to happen in ham radio in recent years. Phil Harman G3WXO, VK6APH Phil Harman, VK6APH, has held a ham license for over 40 years. For much of this time he has worked on leading edge RF techniques related to receivers and transmitters. Phil's current passion is the development of fully digital HF radios. Phil co-writes the Software Defined Radio column in the RSGB Radio Communications journal and also co-authored the SDR chapter in the latest RSGB Handbook. Fully Digital HF Radios Talk Overview Do you remember vinyl records, 8 track tape recorders, Beta video tapes and Super 8 cine? What has happened to them? They have all been superseded with digital technologies that provide superior quality, higher performance and lower cost than the original. We are just seeing the start of a new wave of HF radios that use digital technologies directly at the antenna socket. Are these new radios going to be better, faster, smarter and cheaper than the analogue radios we are use to? Phil Harman, VK6APH, has been helping design, build and operate this new technology and will explain how they work and, more importantly, if they will live up to our expectations. Frank Brickle, AB2KT Frank Brickle, AB2KT was first licensed in the early 60's, went inactive for a long time, but started once again to foul the bands in 2000. He has long maintained a dual career as a musician a composer, with a PhD from Princeton in Music and as a technologist, working in computer science, cryptomathematics, and the strange area where radios and computers meet. He is a member of the ARRL SDR Working Group, the AMSAT Eagle and Suitsat II design teams, and has been a frequent presenter at recent TAPR and AMSAT conferences. Technology notwithstanding, you're likely to meet him on the air late at night on 40 or 80 CW. Talk Overview SDR in the Clouds Hams are becoming very interested in using their radios remotely. With Software Defined Radio, however, it's suddenly a lot less important where all the pieces of the radio system are located physically. In this talk we will discuss how to use the new SDR technology to build a remote system that's tailored to high performance in your area of interest DXing, HF contesting, weak-signal VHF, or EMCOMM. _______________________________________________ tapr-announce mailing list