Preliminary 2022 DCC Schedule

Thursday, 15 September 2022

9:00 AM to 5 PM: TAPR Board Meeting (everyone is welcome to attend)

Friday, 16 September 2022

8:45 AM: Conference Registration, Demonstration Room Open

9:30 AM: Welcome and Introduction

9:45 AM: HamSCI, The Personal Space Weather Station, and the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF

9:45 AM: Database/Central Control System for PSWS by Bill Engelke, AB4EJ

10:30 AM: Crowdsourced Doppler Measurements of Time Standard Stations Demonstrating Ionospheric Variability by Kristina Collins, KD8OXT

11:15 AM: Measuring Characteristics of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Observed with a Network of Low Cost HamSCI Personal Space Weather Stations by Veronica Romanek, KD2UHN

11:15 AM: Progress on Programming the TangerineSDR FPGA by Cuong Nguyen, KC3UAX

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM: Lightning Talks

1:45 PM: Towards Developing an Algorithm for the Separation of Transmitters of High Frequency Chirp Signals of Opportunity for the Purpose of Ionospheric Sounding by Nisha Yadav

1:45 PM: PyLap: An Open-Source Python Interface to the PHaRLAP Ionospheric Raytracing Toolkit by Gerard Piccini, KC3ZHK and Devin Diehl

2:30 PM: Comparison of Manual and Machine Learning Assisted HF Amateur Radio LSTID Observations by Diego Sanchez, KD2RLM

3:15 PM: Claude Shannon’s Radiotelegraphy: Progress in Coherent CW by David Kazdan, AD8Y

3:15 PM: The Whistler Catcher VLF LEAF Module 2022 TAPR DCC Update by Jonathan Rizzo, KC3EEY

4:00 PM: TangerineSDR Prototype Hardware Status by Scotty Cowling, WA2DFI; John Ackermann, N8UR; Tom McDermott, N5EG

4:00 PM: MagnetoPi Hat Magnetometer Hardware Production Status by TBD

4:45 PM: Play Time

5:30 PM: Friday Night Social

10:00 PM: Demonstration Room Closed

Saturday, 17 September 2022

8:00 AM: Conference Registration, Demonstration Room Open

8:45 AM: Welcome and Introductions

9:00 AM: ESP32 APRS: Creating a Low-Cost Tracker by Jason Rausch, K4APR

9:00 AM: Introductory Session: Intro to System Fusion Digital Voice by Mark Thompson, WB9QZB

9:45 AM: Bushwhacking in the Land of Digital Voice by David Vine, WA1EAW

10:30 AM: Amateur Communications Below 9 kHz: The Dreamer’s Band and The New EbNaut Digital Mode by Jonathan Rizzo, KC3EEY

10:30 AM: Introductory Session: Introduction to High-Definition Digital ATV by Mel Whitten, K0PFX

11:15 AM: Starlink, AREDN, and Networking.by Tom McDermott, N5EG

12:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM: Lightning Talks

1:45 PM: GPS Modules as RF Signal Sources, Possibilities and Pitfalls / TAPR SynthDO by John Ackermann, N8UR

1:45 PM: Introductory Session: Introduction to D-STAR Digital Voice by Roland Kraatz, W9HPX

2:30 PM: Technical Presentation TBD

3:15 PM: Technical Presentation TBD

3:15 PM: Introductory Session: Basic Microcontroller Interfacing Techniques by Darrell Davis, KT4WX

4:00 PM: Technical Presentation TBD

4:45 PM: TAPR Membership Meeting

6:00 PM: No Host Cash Bar

7:00 PM: Dinner Banquet, Awards Presentation, Prize Drawings
After Dinner Speech: On-Ramps to Learning and Other Lessons from the Road by Rosy Schechter, KJ7RYV, ARDC Executive Director

10:00 PM: Demonstration Room Closed

Sunday, 18 September 2022

8:00 AM: Sunday Seminar: Opening Remarks by John Hays, K7VE

8:10 AM: University of Scranton ARC – W3USR by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF

8:50 AM: Bridgerland ARC by Kevin Reeves

10:00 AM: National Radio Astronomy Observatory by Lyndele von Schill and Heather Cochrane

10:40 AM: M-17 Project by Ed Wilson and Stephen Miller

11:00 AM: ARISS by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO

11:40 AM: A Quick Review of the ARDC Grant Application Process by John Hays, K7VE

12:00 PM: The End