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[Celeb​rating 104 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community]

General Meeting: Off-Grid Solar Stations

2/12/2019

 
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This Friday, 2/15 we are holding our February General meeting (everyone is welcome). Our invited speaker is Marcel Stieber, AI6MS. Marcel will walk us through the system design for off-grid solar-powered radio sites including power budgets, equipment selection, and maintenance. He will use a case study to explore specific design details and decisions to help us deploy our first fully-off-grid solar-powered radio site! 

Marcel is an electrical engineer currently working at Amazon as a hardware systems integration lead. ​
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Is Earth's Magnetic Polarity Reversing?

2/11/2019

 
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Back in the news this month; We generally assume some things about the Earth will always be the same. In the paper, published in January 2018, the researchers presented evidence gathered from southern Africa that could help us get a better idea of what the heck is going on the South Atlantic Anomaly, which spans from Chile to Zimbabwe. The fact is that Earth’s magnetic field reverses polarity relatively often — on average, every couple million years. 

The good news is that In a paper published five months later, an international team of researchers provides evidence that the current disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field does not indicate that it’s about to reverse polarity, contrary to what some experts have recently suggested. What would happen if Earth's polarity reverses? Here is a great article by the National Geographic on the topic. 
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This is a super fascinating topic. If such an event could happen in our lifetime what would you think the consequences on HF propagation would be? Would love to hear your thoughts on our mailing group sfradioclub@groups.io

Did you get an SSTV NASA Images?

2/10/2019

 
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On Feb 8th, ARISS run another one of their popular Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment events. Transmissions began on Friday, Feb. 8 at 18:25 UTC and run through Sunday, Feb. 10 at 18:30 UTC. SSTV operation is a process by which images are sent from the International Space Station (ISS) via ham radio and received by ham operators, shortwave listeners and other radio enthusiasts on Earth. 

When an event becomes active, SSTV images are transmitted from the ISS at the frequency of 145.80 MHz using the SSTV mode of PD120 and can be received using ham radio equipment as simple as a 2 meter handheld radio or a common shortwave or scanner receiver that covers the 2 meter ham band. After connecting the audio output of the radio receiver to the audio input of a computer running free software such as MMSSTV, the SSTV images can be displayed.  

In this transmission hams received eight NASA On The Air (NOTA) pictures and 4 ARISS commemorative ones. Did you get any? 

Winter Field Day: 4572 points

2/4/2019

 
With 18 contacts (3 on 20M, 15 on 40M), the club has a claimed score of 4572 points. The log has been submitted to ​www.winterfieldday.com for verification. Stay tuned.....

Put your HF hat on this morning

2/2/2019

 
Both 20m and 40m are booming this morning. Propagation is awesome and QRM low. Its a raining day so what better than turning on your HF rig and checking out how far you can get! 

20m - ANT1 - AlphaDelta Single Band Dipole

40m - ANT2 - AlphaDelta Single Band Dipole

Winter Field Day at Fort Funston was a blast!

2/1/2019

 
This is a classic example of how our hobby is so wonderful. Last Saturday, for the first time, our club participated at Winter Field Day. We arrived early at Fort Funston, setup our radios, dipoles and verticals and operated as W6PW 3O San Francisco! We operated until our batteries ...almost run out. The highlight was a visit of a group of students from Cal Polytechnic, engineering department; all licensed amateurs with an active club W6BHZ!  

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