3rd UK High Altitude Society Conference

/

The UKHAS conference in London attracts those interested in learning about building and flying High Altitude Balloons or in tracking their 434 MHz signals

This year the conference takes place on Saturday 7 September 2013 and the venue will be the Greenwich University.

The conference is open to all, you don’t have to have flown a High Altitude Balloon, you’ll probably get more out of it as a total beginner as there will be a huge wealth of experience in the room you can speak to.

A lecture theatre and adjacent classroom are being hired so will have a lot more space than last time. Lunch will be included as before.

The day plan will be most likely lectures in the morning and then in the afternoon workshops, demos and more informal talks. Provisional talks include:

  • James Coxon M6JCX – Pico Balloons (3 years on)
  • Ed Moore M0TEK – How GPS works
  • John Graham-Cumming – Debugging HABs (Part 2)
  • Ara Kourchian – US Ballooning
  • Dave Akerman M6RPI – Pi in the sky + Afternoon workshop

Tickets will be £30 per person but we will offer a reduced price for students of £15, this enables the hire of the lecture theatre, classroom and also provides lunch. Tickets are on sale from HAB supplies - http://ava.upuaut.net/store/index.php?route=product/search&filter_name=ukhas

 

VK National Field Day

/

The Australian annual WIA National Field Day takes place on the weekend of the 13th -14th April 2013.

This coincides this year with the IARU World Amateur Radio Day weekends (the IARU day falls on the 18th and it is suggested to celebrate this event the weekend before or after this date).

Details of the IARU W.A.R.D. - http://www.iaru.org/world-amateur-radio-day.html

Details of the WIA National Field Day -  http://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/nfd/

Registrations are just starting to come in for the WIA NFD, whose aim is NOT a contest, rather a publicity event to introduce the hobby of Amateur Radio to the general public, to attract more people into the hobby.

The Central Coast Amateur Radio Club, on the Central Coast of New South Wales Australia, is leading the way with two stations (VK2WFD/Pand VK2EH/P) registered to be active on Sunday the 14th.

CCARC - http://www.ccarc.org.au

​

Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference - 2013

/

The Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference (GAREC) is the premier annual event attended by those with an interest in amateur radio providing emergency communications during training exercises or in response to disasters.  Since it was first held in 2005, the conference has taken place in all three IARU regions and is open to all emergency communications groups.

In 2013 GAREC returns to IARU Region 1 and will be held in Zurich, Switzerland between 25th to 28th June. The conference has been timed to precede Europe's largest amateur radio exhibition, HAM RADIO in Friedrichshafen so that people can enjoy both events.

General information on GAREC 2013 including information on the venue, registration fees and the tentative agenda and the registration forms is now available on http://www.garec2013.ch/ . This website will be updated frequently to keep all updated with the latest news and program changes. For more information you may also email info@garec2013.ch

Among the draft topics to be discussed are the relevance of Amateur Radio Emergency Communication in the '1st World', the HAMNET high speed data network along with presentations from the three regions of the IARU and also some presentations from groups with recent disaster relief communications operations.

The past presentations from the conferences including GAREC 2012, are now available at http://www.iaru.org/garec.html