The TAPR/ARRL amateur radio Digital Communication Conference takes place next week, 20-22nd September 2013, in Cedarbrook Lodge, Seattle.

Our Saturday evening banquet speaker, Tom Van Baak will present a speech entitled “Passion and Precision: Adventures of a Time Nut.”

Our Sunday morning seminar will be about programming Androids and will be presented by Ron Frohne, KL7NA.

Submitted papers for the DCC are, as follows:

“(CAB) Controllable Altitude Balloon Proposal” by Pedro Converso, LU7ABF
“A Software Defined Radio for Mesh Networks” by John B. Stephensen, KD6OZH
“Applications and Infrastructure for Marathon Support” by Erik Westgard, NY9D
“DATV-Express – a Testing Report” by Art Towslee, WA8RMC and Ken Konechy W6HHC
“Evaluating OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N over D-STAR” by John Ronan, EI7IG and Darren Long, GØHWW
“Gnuradio Companion module for openHPSDR Hermes / Metis SDR Radio” by Tom McDermott, N5EG
“High Performance BPSK31: Ideas for a New Generation” by John A. Gibbs, NN7F
“Modulation – Demodulation Software Radio” by Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW and Guy Roels, ON6MU
“Narrowband IP over Amateur Radio Networks (NIPARnets): Next-Generation Networking for Amateur Radio” by Timothy J. Salo, ABØDO
“Noise Power Ratio (NPR) Testing of HF Receivers” by Adam Farson, VA7OJ/AB4OJ
“Raspberry Pi Applications in Digital Communications: A Mobile Xastir-Based APRS Station” by John A. Hansen, W2FS
“Whitebox Handheld Software Radio Kit” by Chris Testa, KD2BMH
Our Saturday evening banquet speaker is Tom Van Baak, whose speech is titled “Passion and Precision: Adventures of a Time Nut.”

ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference - http://www.tapr.org/dcc.html