A while back I worked with one of my professors to produce videos on a number of risk analysis related topics, including thought exercises and other brainstorming techniques. I just found a couple of those videos on YouTube and thought I’d share them.
Category Archives: HAM Radio
HOPE (and me!) on the BBC
Today’s “Digital Planet” program on the BBC World Service features a section about HOPE, which in and of itself is really cool.
Know what’s even cooler? You can hear me “Calling CQ” from the N2H radio station at the beginning of the segment!
N2H at HOPE
This past weekend, i helped out with the special event station N2H at The Next HOPE. We worked everything from 2 to 20 meters, including FM, SSB, CW, PSK and RTTY. It was pretty cool doing digital modes for the first time. Here are some pictures of us setting up the antennas on the roof, as well as operating during the conference.
News articles
I was looking around trying to remember what news articles I’ve been in recently, and so to save myself from having to do it again in the future I figured I’d post them here.
Daily Collegian
- Nintendo doesn’t earn green approval
- Members of new club learn art of lock picking
- Traveling preachers draw ire
IST / Penn State Official News
- IST Student Examines New York City Taxi System
- Penn State Amateur Radio celebrates 100 years of transmission
News about HOPE talk
- IST Student Examines New York City Taxi System
- HOPE conference highlights everyday hacking
- 2600 HOPE conference bringing hacking to New York City
- The Last HOPE, Part 4 of 4
Other news articles
QSLing for the K3PSU special event station
The Penn State Amateur Radio Club turned 100 years old this year, and to celebrate we held a special event station over the weekend of April 18th and 19th. For both days, we had operators on the air using our special event callsign K3PSU which we borrowed from a local ham for the event. More details on the event over in my post about it.
For those unfamiliar with the workings of the amateur radio world, when you contact a special event station, it’s expected that you will get a fancy postcard in the mail validating your contact. There are contests worldwide that focus on such cards. Our cards, modeled after the 1950s QSL card (QSL means “acknowledge receipt of signal”), came in the mail weeks after the semester ended. So I’m only now getting to the list of people who need to be sent a card.
Our QSL cards
QSL cards from people who I sent cards to today
Today's outgoing mail
We had about 200 stations checking in. Today I was only able to get through the people who have sent us their QSL cards first, and even within that set I was only able to finish the subset of people who were nice enough to include a self-addressed stamped envelope. There’s about 180 more to go, and I think I smell a project for our next meeting.
Just for fun, I snapped the following image on my way out. It’s the stack of QSL cards from the school year 2008-2009, and ONLY those cards from that year specifically addressed to us, K3CR. Just one of the little boxes could contain over 200 cards.
QSL cards 2008-2009