Re: Thoughts on forming a GNU Radio Amateur Radio monthly meeting group

I can present about the Final Determination letter recently received from the US State Department concerning the amateur radio satellite service. 

Open Source satellite work has been determined to be free of ITAR. 

-Michelle W5NYV

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 5:33 AM Barry Duggan <barry@dcsmail.net> wrote:

Thank you for your feedback! It looks like we have a viable idea.

Here are some additional items to consider:

** use BigBlueButton or Zoom

** have a host / moderator present a topic with a demonstration

** limit to one hour (especially if using BigBlueButton)

** a time on the weekend might be better - something like 20:00 UTC?

** I will put out a news entry on the gnuradio.org homepage as soon as a
kickoff seems feasible. Marcus will help "as much as he can"

** possibly start a GR Ham Radio mailing list like discuss-gnuradio

Thank you for your continued interest and ideas.

73 and stay safe,
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Barry Duggan KV4FV
https://github.com/duggabe

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:13:29 +0200, Marcus Müller wrote:

Hello Barry, hi everyone,

I just wanted to say I was very impressed with all the activity in the
breakout session, and how productive everything was.

I'd find it super interesting if aside from the social benefit of
ragchewing (no matter whether that happens on a video conference, via
pure voice comms, or in a text chat), people had would also take the
chance to give a short "impulse" presentation on what they think would
be interesting for the rest; for example, I think Barry's digital
modulations tutorials would be extremely interesting for a lot of people.

But also, a bit on stuff like (brainstorming here) "how to make use of
the new digital predistortion module to get the most out of my system",
"I've invented a digital mode, and you'll never guess what happened
next", "how it took me a month to figure out why I wasn't seeing any
satellites and why I hate storks", "SDR in club education settings", ….

Nothing that takes 2 hours, but something to get discussion off the
ground, and then if discussion shows people like where things are going,
go deeper into it.

Cheers,
Marcus