ARCatUCF

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Meetings: 5:30pm THURSDAY in ENGR-I 456A

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Try out Amateur Radio! Get a license, talk around the world! Build antennas and radios from scratch. Learn practical electronics. Come to our meetings, we can help with these things.

Contact info:
Our Discord server:	discord invite
Our e-mail address:	k4ucf.arc@gmail.com (Please use your @ucf.edu email if possible)
Knight Connect:	knightconnect k4ucf
Our linktree:	ARCatUCF
Our Facebook group:	facebook. (not as active as Discord)

Meetings 5:30pm Thursday in ENGR-I 456A

"It's not the size of the antenna, but the SWR that counts."

"Amateur" has the connotation of unprofessional, sloppy, substandard, but that's wrong. Root word is 'amo' which is to love. We do it because we love it, and don't need to be paid to do it. If you're doing amateur radio and not having fun, you are doing it wrong.

Mission

To promote Amateur Radio, and its use around UCF by students and faculty.

To get every club member licensed (preferably upgraded to extra!)

Club meetings

• Shack meetings are in Engr I room 456A every week.
  • Every Thursday at 5:30PM (first thursday of the month conflicts with LMARS)
• No formal nets are currently scheduled (TBD), but if they were they would be on the repeater. If you are unlicensed, you can still participate in the net. Just find a club member.

past minutes and future meetings

• This week's agenda and minutes
• past minutes and future agendas
• Recent minutes updates
• ARC active projects

Annual club events

These are events the club is regularly involved in:

• NOTE: We have been inactive in tailgating for some time. Hopefully this changes?
• ARRL database of hamfests
• Field day
• Orlando Hamcation: The 2nd Largest Hamfest / convention in the USA.
• Hamvention: The largest hamfest in the USA.

Club ToDo List

moved to ARC todo

Club projects and activities

See also Category:ARC projects

Projects in progress

(or, at least, these should be active)

• Meshtastic deployments - Tier 0 nodes deployed, tier 1 in progress, widespread deployment coming later.

• SDR distributed direction finding - Feasible sites found, no progress on software/hardware.

• satellite ground station controller - Controller made, interface functional. Needs correct transistors and final hardware fixes.

• SDR remote setup and remote display - Partial hardware, no software. Multiple positions available for antenna.

• Portable Rotor for sat tracking - Heavily underway. Hardware chosen, software in progress.

• simple antenna builds for any member: Copper J-pole, Roll-up J-Pole, tape measure Yagi, Moxon - Needs reassessment with modern economic conditions. Can't source tape spools for Yagi, Copper for J-pole too expensive, 450ohm ladder line supply issues, No current Moxon design.

Possible future meeting activities

• licensing exam study
• soldering practice -- PL259 ends on coax
• field trips
• contests
  • http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/duedates.php

Possible project sources

You may also want to select from possible future projects or the antenna links page.

• ARC Semester ToDo Items
• Repeater modifications (Echolink, Controller, New repeater)
• Build Direction Finding Equipment
• QST Homework
• Folding J-Pole Workshop
• Mini Field Day / Tabling
• Amsat
• ATX Power Supply Mod
• build a Class D amplifier

Topic Index

• Software Defined Radio
• Fox hunt
• Antenna links
• Amateur Radio Emergency Jumpkit
• ARC live demo
• Senior Design PCB Milling Machine & Certification

Old items of interest

• field day
• NASA info
• Past minutes
• Seminole county ARES/RACES training
  • FEMA self-training courses
• Code practice cdroms: wa4cm has made a few code practice cdroms, available to any members who would like to borrow them.
• Scholarships
  • ARRL foundation scholarships and grants

Members

Officers & Advisor

Officers
Travis Rodriguez, President	KQ4VQC
Skyler Prothro, Treasurer	KQ4WVJ
Jake Russo, Secretary	K4RRJ
Steven Dick, Club Faculty Advisor	KG4YDW

Members & Alumni

Currently Active Members (Student & Alumni)
Steven Dick	KG4YDW
Ivan Huang	KO4WSS
Travis Rodriguez	KQ4VQC
Skyler Prothro	KQ4WVJ
Jake Russo	K4RRJ
John Benjamin	KE0NLO
Others not listed here by choice
UCFARC Alumni Members
Nathan Bodnar	KJ4BWR
Ramsay Newman	KM4INO
Anson Shurr	WU2F (formerly KJ4MJI)
Jamie Schnaitter	KJ4TBT
Doug Maukonen	k4ddm (formerly kf4ze, ka4nnx)
Christopher E. Maukonen	wa4cm (SK)
Logan Camacho	KM4EVU
Karson Kimbrel	KA4SON (formerly KM4GAV)
Jason Rodriguez	KN4DDS
Ricardo Angeli	KM4FEU
Nick Voce	KK4MMR
Jeffrey C Lambert	k1vzx (was ki4vtn)
Zlatko A Masic	KJ4JEA
John Szialgyi	KI4ORG
José A. Figueroa	KJ4FBZ
Sean Pope	KK4MMP
Brenton Zillins	kj4bwu
Robert Mertens	kj4fca
David Dowdle	kj4hte
Jeremy Mayeres	K4JSM
Eric Gershman	ki4iup
Keith Wall	AK4JQ (was KI4HXM)
Scott Harden	AJ4VD (was KJ4LDF)
Craig A. Jacobson	ka0kqc
Dr. Edwin K. Evenson	ki4agl
Mark Lindeman	ki4ujg
Tim Young	ki4tdb
Matthew A. Rhodes	ki4evh
Jared M. Davies	kg4gac
Mike F. Haendel	kg4rqh
Karl "Skip" Brooks	wb4yed (SK)
Steve Jax	n4sjj
Jami W. Ward	kg4zke
Tannen S. VanZwieten	ki4evi
Matt Kassawara	KG0W (was KG4FEQ)
Jason M. Varner	kg4gae
W. Schuyler Frost	kg4haq
Charles Harpole	k4vud
Steven F. Schindler	na4sa
Samuel M. Richie	ka4kzf
Micheal Potaczala	kc4nus
Steven Freund	kd4ple
Robert Broderick WE4B	we4b
Benny D. Miller Jr.	w4qed (SK)
Joe Reilly	n4ziq
Michael M. Clark, Jr.	ki4olu
Brian J Parkhurst	km4fes
Stephen W Szabo	wb4omm
Dr. Christian S. Bauer Jr	(SK) ki4iuw
If you were forgotten in either section above, feel free to add yourself.

Passed your exam and waiting for your call sign? check the FCC advanced search.

Links

• /r/amateurradio A subreddit devoted to amateur radio. Good spirited, generally younger group of hams.
• /r/RTLSDR A subreddit which discusses the popular, inexpensive, RTL-SDR receiver dongle and other software defined transceivers.
• ARRL Amateur Radio Collegiate Initiative FB Page. Connect, discuss, and more, with other hams just like you.
• Central Florida Geeks lots of Linux/Ham links, etc.
• http://www.ac6v.com/
• HamStudy.org Practice Tests and Flash Cards. (see also Ham exam)
• ADSB
• Julia Programming Language Information Resources

Humor

• The Ham Band
• Text versus Morse Code on The Tonight Show

Tutorials and References

• RTL-SDR.com Blog A useful web site which regularly posts news, tutorials, applications, and more for the ubiquitous RTL-SDR receiver dongle, and other software defined transceivers.
• http://www.microwaves101.com
• http://www.athensarc.org/706.asp
• http://www.microwaves101.com/
• RF & Microwave White Papers
• Antenna-Theory.com Very much a 'Web 1.0' web site, but excellent info.
• Amateur radio - ArchWiki Page on the Arch Linux wiki with information about various linux software for ham radio.

Ham Call Databases

• HamDB Freely accessible, fast call-sign database for 5 countries. Free API functionality.
• QRZ
• FCC -- Universal Licensing System (ULS) searches