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| blog:2023-05-10:beavers:cubs_battleship_event [2023/05/10 11:00] – created ve7rbe | blog:2023-05-10:beavers:cubs_battleship_event [2023/05/10 15:01] (current) – ve7rbe |
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| We started with a short talk about the EM Spectrum and moved into modulation. The intent was to show at a high level how we use radio waves to communicate. The kids picked up the concepts pretty well. Then we had a QSO with VE7TBN, listened around the 20m band, and showed decoding FT8 signals. Unfortunately, on Tuesday with the Beavers, we were not heard by VE7TBN. | We started with a short talk about the EM Spectrum and moved into modulation. The intent was to show at a high level how we use radio waves to communicate. The kids picked up the concepts pretty well. Then we had a QSO with VE7TBN, listened around the 20m band, and showed decoding FT8 signals. Unfortunately, on Tuesday with the Beavers, we were not heard by VE7TBN. |
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| We then spread out around Cliff Gilker Park and played Battleship. Each team had a control operator that helped with using the radio and moving the game forward. The kids picked up using the radio quickly and even did some trash talking about the game over the air. A side effect of the game using alphanumeric grid coordinates was that we were able to introduce the phonetic alphabet to more clearly communicate the coordinates. | We then spread out around Cliff Gilker Park and played Battleship. Each team had a control operator that helped with using the radio and moving the game forward. The kids picked up using the radio quickly and even did some trash talking about the game over the air. A side effect of the game using alphanumeric grid coordinates was that we were able to introduce the phonetic alphabet to more clearly communicate the coordinates. |
