Upcoming Meetings
Thursday, September 9, 7:30 PM Dr Andrew Clegg, W4JE, will provide a show-and-tell of the Perseus software-defined receiver (http://www.microtelecom.it/perseus/). This meeting will be at the Oakton Library. See http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/ok/
Recent Meetings
Saturday/Sunday, August 28-29, AMRAD field trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Green Bank, WV Twenty-five AMRADers participated in the field trip. Look for the photos in the Nov-Dec 2010 issue of the AMRAD Newsletter.
Thursday, August 12, 7:30 PM This meeting was a general discussion of ongoing projects.
Thursday, July 8, 7:30 PM Maitland Bottoms, AA4HS, made a presentation on the IRLP used by the AMRAD repeater.
Upcoming Events
September 11, Virginia Section Convention Virginia Beach, VA, Tidewater Radio Conventions, vbhamfest.com
September 24-26, ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Portland, OR. If you book before September 1, the room rate is $89/night. The conference location (across the river) is The Heathman Lodge, 7801 NE Greenwood Dr, Vancouver, WA. http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-tapr-announce-29th-annual-digital-communications-conference
October 10, CARAFEST West Friendship, MD, Columbia Amateur Radio Association www.carafest.org
October 24, Mason-Dixon Hamfest Westminster, MD, Carroll County Amateur Radio Club, www.qis.net/~k3pzn We have been talking with the people at the Carroll County Amateur Radio Club about doing a Charleston receiver build session at the Mason-Dixon Hamfest. There is a large room where they have held lectures in the past and the plan is for AMRAD to use that room to build receivers and to have some talks and demonstrations alongside the hamfest.