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BACAR 7

Prepping for Bacar on Friday evening 11 October Stephen was setting up his pc to receive APRS, monitoring the
national APRS frequency of 144.800 MHz, Stephen suddenly heard SSTV being transmitted on this frequency, Stephen
quickly switched set ups to Ham Radio Deluxe and Using Digital Master, and the SSTV Module, yet every time he got
the software just ready, the SSTV transmission would stop. Stephen then went down to 144.500 MHz, this was the
SSTV frequency selected for the BACAR 7 flight. There was some SSTV testing going on, but this ceased at about
9:20 pm. Stephen then downloaded a “SSTV” Encoder app on his phone and transmitted the following picture using his
Baofeng portable on low power in the shack, receiving the signal on his Icom mobile radio also in the shack and feeding
the audio into his desktop pc and the SSTV module.

This SSTV encoder is
available from Google Play
store, go to the following
link to download: https://
play.google.com/store/apps/
details?
id=om.sstvencoder&hl=en

On Saturday morning 12 October, Johan ZS6NJJ arrived at the clubhouse at 05:45 am, in order to start setting up to for
the various BACAR activities available after launch. Followed by Mario and Stephen and Johan (JT) and Nico ZS6NMP.
Johan and Stephen both had their yagi
antennas with them, Stephen was using
his cross yagi on the wooden boom and
Johan his home made yagi on a PVC
boom. Nico and JT designed an
ingenious support structure, to support
the yagi antennas instead of having to
hold them up all the time, balanced
precariously on the edge of a broom
handle.

Bulletin stats for October 2019

Date: Member Call ins: Visitors:

1 October Not Recorded

8 October 4 1
15 October 4 1

22 October 4 1

29 October 5 2

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