04/26/2018

The Yasme Foundation[1] will sponsor "Ham Radio 2.0 - Innovation and Discovery," which Foundation President Ward Silver, N0AX, describes as "a deliberately low-structure affair, affectionately dubbed '2.0 Row'" that's intended to be a gathering spot for innovative groups and organizations.

The IARU Region 1 group Youngsters on the Air (YOTA[2]) will set up in this area, staffed by Florian Zwingl, OE3FTA, of Austria, and Koos Fick, ZR6KF, of South Africa. "We are hoping to spark an interest in YOTA here in Region 2," suggested Silver. The annual Region 1 YOTA conference for 2018 will be held in South Africa this coming August.

Representatives of the HamSCI[3] (Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation) group will be adjacent to the Yasme Foundation's booth. Along with the HamSCI Forum, researchers and participants in HamSCI will be making short presentations in the 2.0 Row area. A schedule will be posted on the HamSCI website. Results of the recent Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) and some of the papers it generated will be on display as well.

Other organizations located in the Volta Building (Building 4) near the entrance to the Flea Market will include FIRST Robotics[4] and Hamvention's Youth Tech area, just across the walkway. NSIradio[5] will be exhibiting software-defined radio equipment by Expert Electronics. The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA[6]) will be co-located with the NASA Radio JOVE[7] exhibit. Stop by to learn about how a radio amateur and amateur astronomer, Scott Tilley, VA7TIL, of British Columbia, discovered that a long-dead satellite had returned to life.

Here is the planned schedule of topics and speakers:




Friday





Speaker(s)





Location






Open Research Institute





Michelle Thompson, W5NYV



HR2.0




Ray Tracing & the SEQP





Josh Vega, WB2JSV



HamSCI




SatNOGS Automated Stns





Pierros Papadeas, SV1QVE



HR2.0




Personal Space Weather Stn





Ward Silver, N0AX



HamSCI




NPOTA - First Steps





Laura Steinberger, WZ8C



HR2.0




The FT8 Advantage





Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA



HamSCI




AMSAT Fox & Golf Satellites





TBD



HR2.0




Internet Telegraph





Scott Cowling, WA2DFI



HR2.0






 



 



 




Saturday





Speaker(s)





Location






SOTA





Keith Schlottman, KR7RK



HR2.0




WSJT Modes





Ria Jairam, N2RJ/Dave Fisher, NX6D



HR2.0




ARDF with LIDAR data





Matt Robbins, AA9YH



HR2.0




SuperDARN Eclipse Results





Magda Moses, KM4EGE



HamSCI




ARHAB Balloon Data





Bill Brown, WB8ELK



HR2.0




DX Display and HARC Dbase





Bill Engelke, AB4EJ



HamSCI




K1NSS and Cool QSLs





Jeff Murray, K1NSS



HR2.0




Software Defined Radar





Bob McGwier, N4HY



HamSCI



The schedule and session times will be posted on the HamSCI website[8].

 "I encourage Hamvention visitors to stop by and leave a QSL card," Silver said. "We invite college clubs to hang their colors, makers and builders to demonstrate their latest projects, vendors and individuals to put on short demonstrations, and for everyone to make connections and friends. There will also be some short presentations interleaved with presentations by HamSCI researchers. We hope to see a lot of new faces at 2.0 Row!"


[1] http://www.yasme.org/
[2] https://www.ham-yota.com/
[3] http://www.hamsci.org/
[4] https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc
[5] http://nsiradio.com/
[6] http://www.radio-astronomy.org/
[7] https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/
[8] http://hamsci.org/

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