It is winter here in New England and it is not the best time of year to work outdoors. Despite the weather, I have been able to complete a few finishing touches on our new Satellite and 6m Tower. We’ve added a Tower Camera to enable us to view the operation of our antennas from our home or remotely. We also added a J Mode desensitization filter to improve operation with VU mode satellites such as SO-50 and FO-29. You can read more and view some sample vide from the IP camera via the link below.
Aya KC1JEB, Tom AB1NS, Mike K1WVO, and Fred AB1OC recently hosted a Morse Tutor kit build for students at World Academy. World Academy was a HAB-3 School and the student kit build is one of several follow-on activities that we’ve been doing there.
Aya KC1JEB and Tom AB1NS Mentoring Students at World Academy
We built a total of 16 kits over two sessions with the students at the school and had a lot of fun in the process!
Mike K1WVO Mentoring Students at World Academy
Thanks to the excellent mentoring by Aya, Tom, Mike, and their teacher Gisele, all of the kits have been completed and are working!
Gisele Mentoring Students at World Academy
In addition to mentoring the students, Gisele also built a kit of her own and got it working!
Fred AB1OC Mentoring Students at World Academy
Our next session with the students will be to help them learn the Morse Code and begin practicing with their kits. We are also planning a Morse Code competition using the kits similar to the ones we have done in the past.
This project has been great fun for all involved and we have provided the kits free of charge thanks to the support from our generous donors as part of our ongoing fundraising campaign.
We have received several requests to share the image and construction details for the Raspberry Pi Satellite Tracker Interface. We use the Sat Tracker interface with MacDoppler as part our Portable Satellite Stations. The Sat Tracker described in the article uses a Raspberry Pi Computer with a touch screen interface to interface MacDoppler to Green Heron Engineering RT-21 Rotator Controller(s). You can read about how to build your own Sat Tracker Interface via the link above.
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