{"id":3879,"date":"2018-05-03T15:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2018-05-03T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T19:25:37","slug":"the-consortium-may-7th-amateur-satellites-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3879","title":{"rendered":"The Consortium &#8211; May 7th &#8211; Amateur Satellites for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim K1GND and Bob W1YRC host a monthly ham radio tutorial event that they call<br \/>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w1ddd.org\/consortium.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Consortium<\/a>\u201c. They meet at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Asia+Grille\/@41.9365209,-71.4819217,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e44227d3e3bacd:0xe98e2e9d625d4ea9!8m2!3d41.9365209!4d-71.479733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asia Grille at Lincoln Mall<\/a>\u00a0on Rte. 116 in<br \/>\nLincoln, usually on the first\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_494709036\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of the month. \u00a0Meetings start at 6:30 PM, however, people start arriving after 5:00 PM for dinner before the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The May 7th Consortium presentation will cover using our repeaters in the sky &#8212; Amateur Radio Satellites.\u00a0 The FM satellites, so called &#8220;easy-sats&#8221;, are especially simple to use.\u00a0 All that is required is a dual band HT and simple antennas to\u00a0have successful contacts.\u00a0 Online tools or phone applications are then used to track the satellites, letting us know when the satellite will be overhead and where to point the antennas.\u00a0 The talk will be given by Bob Beatty, WB4SON, who has been using satellites for more than four decades, and who is currently an ARISS Technical Mentor (Amateur Radio aboard the International Space Station).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim K1GND and Bob W1YRC host a monthly ham radio tutorial event that they call \u201cThe Consortium\u201c. They meet at the\u00a0Asia Grille at Lincoln Mall\u00a0on Rte. 116 in Lincoln, usually on the first\u00a0Monday\u00a0of the month. \u00a0Meetings start at 6:30 PM, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=3879\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,21,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activation","category-satellite","category-the-consortium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}