UCF ARC potentitial projects

Projects marked(*) the club has already done.

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Project sources

• ARRL Handbook (available in UCF library)
• ARRL Antenna Book (club copies available for loan)
• QST magazine (contact Ed Evenson to borrow some, or pick up in 370)
• ineternet...

Projects for the club

• Repeater antenna proposals
  • tower
  • Diamond
  • colinears on tripods or wall side mount
• portable antenna tripods
  • eham portable antenna mount
• automatic CW beacon for foxhunt use (PIC + T2H) -- KG4GAC
• remote controlled radio station for unmanned shack
• potential repeater enhancements
  • replace, upgrade or reconfigure 440 to support tones
  • Echolink or IRLP
  • voice synth and/or digital voice recorder
  • weather station / emergency alert
• APRS involvement, especially for robotic vehicle
• SEDS: dish
  • mounting bracket
  • test dish apateur and gain
  • rotor control
  • tracking software

antennas to build

• *portable transmission line emergency J-pole
• *copper tube J-pole (threaded or soldered?)
• fox hunt antennas:
  • small loop direction finding antenna
  • tape measure yagi direction finding antenna
• 2m quad or quagi?
• 802.11 band antennas: yagi
• bow tie or discone wide band or wifi
• actively amplified phased array direction finding antenna (Antenna Book)
• full wave 2m loop
• disk-cone antenna (Antenna Book)
• Moxon directional antenna
• 2m yagi

projects to build & stuff to try

• fox hunting
  • QST Nov 97 p45
  • fox hunt transmitter
• SWR meter
  • QST Dec 87 p15
• Digital network analyzer
  • QST jan/feb 98
  • nihac
• ARES/RACES or emergency related projects
  • form ARES/RACES team
  • put emergency antennas on all campus buildings used as hurricane shelters
  • practice events, emergency power, etc.
• SEDS related projects:
  • direction finding and tracking
  • dish antenna prep
• other projects
  • T-shirt design
  • club banner
• HF projects
  • code practice
  • QRP 10m SSB or multimode?