WARC General meeting
The Wichita Amateur Radio Club meets on the first
Wednesday of each month (generally except January).
We meet at the Salvation Army Building, located at
350 N. Market (corner of Market and 3rd).
Social time 7:00 PM. Meeting starts at 7:30 PM.
If the doors are locked, call on 146.52MHz simplex.
April 2nd, 2008
Westar Energy (the Electric Company)
Manager of Generation Dispatch, Bryan Taggart, will speak on generation,
mainly power plant fundamentals and power plant operational
considerations. This will include generation types ranging from nuclear
powered generation, coal fired steam cycle generation, gas fired steam
cycle generation, combustion turbine generators, combined cycle
generation, and wind turbine operation. Bryan will then discuss
Generation System Operations including the day ahead and hourly planning
process for load forecasting and unit commitment decisions, unit dispatch
cost stacking and market prices and transmission congestion pricing
impacts.
Don Taylor, Director of System Planning, will speak on distribution,
mainly on how the various power plants and transmission grid work
together to seamlessly get power and energy to the electric outlets we
all use.
This computer graphic presentation will start at 7:30 PM since they need
time to return to Topeka that night; our business meeting will follow.
May 7th, 2008
Kevin Hager from
KWCH-TV
presented information on the digital transition for television stations in
Power Point utilizing the new LCD projector and large screen. He
spoke about why the transition is happening, and what impact that has on
the industry and viewers. Hager is an associate professor in the Elliott
School of Communication at WSU and has worked on numerous projects for
KWCH, including DTV transition educational plans and materials.
June 4th, 2008
We had a presentation on Echolink by Don Carey WØWKS
and Roger Bailey N6ZOP. Echolink allows repeaters to link to other repeaters
via the Internet over long distances. This presentation talked about the
Internet protocol and Ham equipment used for Echolink. Wichita repeater
WØWKS on 145.37 MHz is operating in this mode.
July 2nd, 2008
There was no WARC meeting due to Field Day and July 4th celebration.
August 6th 2008
Guest speaker David Stanislaw NØJWY will make a presentation on the
History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System (The Early Years 1875 - 1925),
based on the book by Bell Laboratories. This should be a fascinating journey
through early land & wireless communications.