The Boston University Amateur Radio Club (BUARC) will be operating amateur radio station W1BUR on Saturday, March 3, 2012 in PHO111 for the 2012 American Radio Relay League DX Contest – please take some time to check out the club, talk to radio operators, and help us compete in the ARRL DX Contest by getting on the air yourself!
=This Weekend=
This weekend, W1BUR will be participating in an American Radio Relay League DX Contest.
This is a radio sport to contact as many overseas radio stations as possible, “to expand knowledge of [ionospheric] propagation on the HF and MF bands, improve operating skills, and improve station capability by creating a competition”.
Anyone is welcome to stop by and take a look at the BUARC radio equipment, or even get on the air.
W1BUR will be operating on Saturday, March 3 from 10:00AM to sometime in the evening in Photonics 111.
Photonics Room 111
=Amateur Radio=
Amateur Radio service can be used to experiment, talk, and just play around with the electromagnetic spectrum from as low as 1.8MHz all the way above 10GHz at a maximum 1500W (PEP) output power. Compared to 200mW on typical 2.4GHz Wi-Fi card and 500mW on the 460MHz Family Radio Service (aka license free walkie-talkies at sold at radioshack), that is a lot of power and very wide spectrum.
An amateur radio license allows you to build and/or operate an RF emitting device and use it for many projects. You could:
- bounce signals off the ionosphere and talk to someone on the other side of the globe using HF
- transmit and receive signals using amateur satellites on VHF/UHF
- talk to astronauts in the International Space Station (NA1SS and RS0ISS) on VHF/UHF,
- set GPS beacons (APRS) to track high altitude balloons
- test different antenna designs in action
ICOM IC-756 HF Transceiver
The Boston University Amateur Radio Club (BUARC) will be operating amateur radio station W1BUR on Saturday, March 3, 2012 in PHO111 for the 2012 American Radio Relay League DX Contest – please take some time to check out the club, talk to radio operators, and help us compete in the ARRL DX Contest by getting on the air yourself!
=This Weekend=
This weekend, W1BUR will be participating in an American Radio Relay League DX Contest.
This is a radio sport to contact as many overseas radio stations as possible,
“to expand knowledge of [ionospheric] propagation on the HF and MF
bands, improve operating skills, and improve station capability by
creating a competition”.
Anyone is welcome to stop by and take a look at the BUARC radio equipment,
or even get on the air.
W1BUR will be operating on Saturday, March 3
from 10:00AM to sometime in the evening in Photonics 111.
=Amateur Radio=
Amateur Radio service can be used to experiment, talk, and just play
around with the electromagnetic spectrum from as low as 1.8MHz all the way
above 10GHz at a maximum 1500W (PEP) output power. Compared to 200mW on
typical 2.4GHz Wi-Fi card and 500mW on the 460MHz Family Radio Service
(aka license free walkie-talkies at sold at radioshack), that is a lot
of power and very wide spectrum.
An amateur radio license allows you to build and/or operate an RF emitting device and use it for many projects. You could:
- bounce signals off the ionosphere and talk to someone on the other side of the globe using HF
- transmit and receive signals using amateur satellites on VHF/UHF
- talk to astronauts in the International Space Station (NA1SS and RS0ISS) on VHF/UHF,
- set GPS beacons (APRS) to track high altitude balloons
- test different antenna designs in action
