Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club
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New Brochure for the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club
May 18th
I have produced a new Brochure for the Central Alberta Amateur Radio Club.
To download a color printable PDF document of the Club Advertising brochure complete with hot links back
to the web site  click this link
or check the second Tab under Site Tools menu.
Bob VE6BLD. Webmaster
ARISSat1 Will not deploy until July 2011
Feb 13th
I have been anxiously waiting for the next  launch of ARISSat1 formerly know as SUIT Sat . After working every orbit of the first SUIT Sat in February of 2006 I now have to wait a little longer! The most exciting time of my life as an amateur radio operator was receiving all the transmissions from the badly disabled Suit Sat and decoding the secret words and SSTV picture from the spinning satellite. Hopefully when this new satelite is launched in July 2011 everyone will get the opportunity to receive the weak signals from it.
Please click this link to read and hear the many reports I received along with a few others of the first SUIT Sat
More information and an overview of the new satellite at this link.
For the latest information and news please see the link below.
73 VE6BLD
Rail Gun
Feb 3rd
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This is a new "rail gun" the US navy is testing on one of their ships..It uses a electromagnetic field pulse to shoot a projectile over 200 nautical miles… It takes 3 million amps to shoot his thing for each projectile..The kinetic energy of a solid projectile hitting something at this speed is equal to a cruise missle hitting it, but a lot cheaper to use…
The average ordinary 15 inch gun now can only shoot around 15 nautical miles… The energy needed to shoot the solid projectile at mach 8 is around 32 megajoules… Its calculated to shoot this gun
6 times per minute the ship will have to supply 16 megawatts of power…They want to achieve a goal of a 64 megajoule weapon which would take a staggering 6 million amps to shoot…
They still need to develop a breakthrough in material construction so that the guns themselves won't be shreaded by each high velocity barrage…
Submitted by Skip VE6BGT
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Facts on Ham Radio
Jan 18th
[html] Thought people might be interested in reading some of these facts on Ham Radio.  I've added it to the links as well so it can be found after this news item is archived.  Its kind of an Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) which I think would be a good addition to this site for new hams to find out more about what amateur radio is all about.
http://www.magiclink.com/web/shurst/Page1.html
It's a page by By Steven R. Hurst, KA7NOC
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