May 7, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: USB How-to. Advanced: Raspberry PI, John Armstrong
Basic Program — “USB How-To” This will cover “How do I set up a USB Serial Port? How do I select the COM port? What do all the USB colors mean (white/black/blue/yellow)? What’s a USB Type A vs. Type B? How do I setup a USB driver? How much power can I draw from a USB source? What is USB1, USB2, and USB3?”.
Advanced Program — “Raspberry PI” John Armstrong will give us an update on some of his Raspberry PI based projects.
Announced in the May 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the June 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting called to order at 19:00 by Allan Taylor, K7GT, President. Secretary Carl was not present.
Visitors:
- Andreas Blech
- KG7TJK - James Baltushnik
- KG7TIC - Barbara Roberts
- WB7VUF - Lyle Hood
Announcements:
The SOARC Swapfest will be held Tuesday, May 19, 7PM, at the Grange, Grants Pass.
The Coos County Hamfest/Swapmeet will be held July 18, 10AM-2PM, at the North Bend High School.
Field Day will be June 27th and 28th at the Fire Station lot next to the Dodge Bridge County park. There will be a planning meeting Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00 PM at Tom’s house. At a previous meeting the club voted to operate 4A.
Scott, NA7OM gave a brief rundown of the 7QP effort. Four club members participated in a multi-transmitter county expedition at the Agate Lake park.
Starting 19:10 the beginner’s program on USB was given by Tom, N5EG. It covered USB 1 through USB 3.1, color codes, USB-to-serial converters, issues, and COM port identification using the Windows Device Manager.
At 19:35 we broke for coffee and cookies.
At 20:00 the main program showing Raspberry PI, with an SDR dongle feeding the RPI via USB and an attached laptop retrieving data from the R-PI via Ethernet. The PC displayed the spectrum, tuning, and mode selection using SDR#. John also demonstrated the R-PI Linux GUI using X-windows on the PC. The presentation was given by John Armstrong, KF7UMK.
Thanks to Todd Carney, K7TFC for making coffee, bringing cookies, and cleaning up.
The meeting was adjourned at 20:45.
Submitted by Tom McDermott, N5EG in absence of Carl VanOrden, W7BRO Secretary
