On the 8th of May between 3 and 6 pm the FORUM Day of Open Door was happening, in which we participated. There was an interview round and we had the chance to present our course to the participants.
We could lead several interesting discussions and hope, that we were able to create interest in amateur radio and our university group. Anyone who's interested is always welcome to join our regular meetings, as announced on our website. The program can be found on the FORUM's website here .
At our meeting last Tuesday we tested the QO-100 station of one of our members.
On the roof of our station we put up a parabolic antenne (a 50 cm satellite dish) with a tripod facing south. The active part of the antenna system consists on the RX side of a modified satellite LNB that is being fed from a waveguide, and the 13 cm TX antenna is mounted coaxially to it. As no TX capable SDR was available, we focused our efforts on testing the RX side.
With a HackRF we were successfully able - after some effort - to receive SSB and CW signals with good SNR.
In the future we wish to put effort into building a permanent QO-100 station with a larger dish to be able to have receive and transmit capabilities at our station.
On the 2nd of December 2024 we had two stands as part of our efforts at KIT's university group fair:
One inside stand, with general information about us and about amateur radio, as well as a SDR-Livestream and some antennas; and one outside stand, with a portable HF radio station with an inverted-v antenna.
We were very happy about the clear resonance at the fair, and hope to soon welcome new members.
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