Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club W4AQL

11/11/2020

"Signal Corps members assembled a radio receiver and loud speaker on the Capital City Club roof preparing to receive the music transmission but they ran into a problem. They could not get
enough audio out of the speaker to fill the outdoor area and overcome the noise of the dancers. As a backup, Godfrey hired two musicians to be on site in case the radio system failed to work (Large Crowd Dances to Wireless Music, 1920).
Anticipating a problem, the Signal Corps members brought multiple sets of headphones and outfitted the dancers with them. Wires were running from the dancers to the receiver. With the headphones the dancers could hear the music all over the floor. " (Sherman Banks, The First 100 Years of the Georgia Tech
Amateur Radio Club)
http://aa4xg.com/Georgia_Tech_Alumni_Amateur_Radio_Club/History.html
Glad that we could help, Georgia Institute of Technology Bands!
https://twitter.com/GeorgiaTechBand/status/1321948370429079552

“Here’s another First for Band History Thursday! We participated in the first ever “dance by radio.” Did we technically invent wireless music??🤔 ”

05/27/2020

Sherman W4ATL did an awesome presentation Tuesday night on the club's history. If you missed the presentation, you can watch the recording by clicking the link below!

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03/06/2020

Georgia Institute of Technology GT-1 To Feature Amateur Radio Robot Operation
The Glenn Lightsey Research Group, Space Systems Design Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology is sponsoring a 1U CubeSat mission. The primary function of GT-1 is to be an educational proof of concept and satellite bus demonstrator. It will use this mission as an opportunity for undergraduates to get involved in all parts of a space mission, from design to implementation and sustainment. It will test a prototype deployable antenna and solar panels, which can be used for future missions derived from the same baseline design, and with inclusion of additional experimental equipment.

It will operate with AX.25 protocol to collect telemetry data. In partnership with the W4AQL Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club, the satellite will also host a digital contact ROBOT payload, inspired by the Russian ham satellites RS-12 and RS-13. It will collect QSO information from individuals who contact the ROBOT as it orbits. The satellite will also function as a standard digipeater. Proposing a 9k6 UHF downlink using G3RUH FSK modulation. Planning a JAXA deployment from the ISS in October 2020. A downlink on 437.175 MHz has been coordinated.

https://www.amsat.org/ans-061-amsat-news-service-weekly-bulletins-for-march-1st/

http://www.arrl.org/news/georgia-institute-of-technology-cubesat-to-feature-amateur-radio-robot-operation

ANS-061 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for March 1st March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 by Frank Karnauskas AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-061 The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS publishes news rel...

01/28/2020

GTARC Members KJ4IQA, KM4DE, KM4EQR, and KN8U attended the Gwinnett Amateur Radio Society's Winter Field Day on Saturday at Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services Station #31. Thanks for hosting us! We had a blast operating the various stations. Photo credits: KM4EQR

01/13/2020

A QST article by W4AQL alumnus Bill Conwell, K2PO.

Find out how to bring any feed line mismatch to a 1:1 SWR in “An SWR Shifting T,” the free article of the month for the February issue of ! Bill Conwell, K2PO, shares his solution to this common issue and breaks down transmission line impedance transformations. Read the article for free at www.arrl.org/this-month-in-qst, or in the digital edition, live now!

05/22/2019

Gearing up for WPX CW this weekend at W4AQL. HF1, shown here with dark theme installed on N1MM+, is looking especially good this evening!

05/21/2019

W4AQL president Bruce Yang, KN8U, featured in the ARRL photo below, just returned from the Dayton Hamfest!
https://www.facebook.com/ARRL.org/photos/a.10156573288892408/10156581894522408/

2019 Dayton attendees can visit the Lab booth to get their handheld radios tested for spurious emissions. Will your radio pass the ARRL Lab's test? Pictured (left to right) is Zhenhao Yang, KN8U and ARRL Lab RFI Engineer Paul Cianciolo, W1VLF. (Photo credit Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R / ARRL)

01/21/2019

Total lunar eclipse from our antenna farm. Thanks to everyone for joining us despite the below-freezing temperature!

Pictured is our VHF tower. Antennas from top to bottom: 70cm beam, 2m beam, and 6m beam.

01/21/2019

Guest operator Bryn Lawson, WØONA works a pileup at W4AQL during the North American Collegiate Championship SSB on January 19, 2019.