SRO Regular Meeting Feb 10th at the Edgebrook Field House 8 PM
Orion
is one of the great "what if's" of the twentieth century. Today,
nuclear powered spaceships seem like little more than laughably naive
1950's science fiction, but it might have been otherwise...and still
could be. Orion was a project aimed at discovering the feasibility of
spaceships driven by nuclear bombs.
The
initial plan called for manned missions to Mars by 1965 and Saturn by
1970. After seven years of work, the project's technical challenges
seemed surmountable, but political obstacles brought the effort to a
halt.
CFMC February 2010 Regular Meeting Feb 17th at the Edgebrook
Field House
Robert
Goolsby K5NAK wil give us a
program Wednesday
evening February 17th. at the
Edgebrook Field House right
after the 8:00pm. club meeting.
Robert's topic of discussion
will be, Python Prop working in
conjunction with "Vocap" and along with different antenna
configurations, which makes it
easy to do HF propagation
predictions with stunning and easy
to read pictures which he will
show! Every one is welcome to come to the see the program, you do not
have to be a ham operator.
SRO Holiday Party Take a look at the party pictures at: Holiday Party 2009
Take a look at the April 1940 Issue of Mike Shy. This is accessed on the Newsletter page.
If you are contemplating joining Society
Radio Operators (SRO), you probably would like to know
something about the organization. What follows is a brief
description of the make-up of the club and some of its
activities.
SRO is chartered by the State of Illinois
as a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to technical
improvements and public services within our community. The
club is guided by four officers and three directors who are
elected by the general membership for one-year terms.
Club activity is reported in "Mike Shy."
Our newsletter is sent to all SRO members and CFAR
contributors, and includes information on SRO activites,
local happenings, the repeaters, technical articles,
hamfests, etc.
General meetings are usually held on the
second Wednesday of every other month at various Chicago
area locations; attendance is optional. Usually an an
informative program follows the handling of club
business.
For detailed information on SRO and its
club activities or in joining our club, you are welcome to
explore the rest of our Web site.
Amplifiers & Calculators
Try this handy site from Jim Hawes AA9DT. He provides a
lesson on Ohm's Law, plus simple calculators to design
transistor amplifiers and convert germanium transistors
circuits to silicon. Now you can use those old hamfest
project books! Click
here
Do You Want To
Get Your Ham License?
QRZ.COM is the place to be.
Click here and
try to pass QRZ's Practice Amateur Radio Exams
