Radio Wave Propagation Exhibits
The Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club will again be an exhibitor at International Astronomy Day at the BREC Highland Road Park Observatory. This yearly event will take place on Saturday, May 3, from 3 – 10 pm. This event is open to the public and has many visitors viewing exhibitors’ demonstration tables.
BRARC will be setting up a working Amateur Radio station using the club call W5GIX. The station will be located indoors in the outer ring of the observatory. We will either use the onsite Yagi or the OCF dipole located on the tree line.
We will be demonstrating radio wave propagation through the ionosphere using the FT8 digital mode. We will be showing propagation paths on different bands at different times of the day on the two table monitors using PSK Reporter. We will have the ability for guests to make digital mode contacts and receive a First Contact certificate.
Dana Browne, AD5VC, will again be providing an exhibit table for K5LSU outdoors and demonstrating the use of Morse code in Amateur Radio Communication.
We will need BRARC members to help man our table indoors to promote Amateur Radio and discuss the value of the ionosphere in propagating radio waves.
A signup sheet is available with time slots for interested members. Please consider helping with this event.
