“CQ, CQ, to all Amateur Radio Operators, from W8LTU, W8LT…W8L…W8…”
The once vibrant Lawrence Tech Wireless Society is about to lose its FCC Club Call Sign and License!
We need Your help to Reactivate the Wireless Society…
…or soon, (April 22, 2015), W8LTU may be reassigned to another ham.
The Society came on the scene in 2002, with the Club Call Sign of KC8TEQ. Its image was improved in 2003 with the Vanity Call Sign of W8LTU. Several people remember that there was an open Ham Shack and activity. Where did it all go? But now…
“It’s not your Grandfather’s Ham Radio anymore!”
LTU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has recognized that Amateur Radio’s long history of experimentation is the right vehicle to attract University Students and STEP candidates. Amateur Radio can provide hands-on exposure to Software Defined Radios (We’ll have access to two Flex-5000 transceivers); exotic PSK, JT-65 and Olivia digital modes that receive signals below the noise floor; communication via Amateur Satellites; all of this is within your students’ reach—if we have an Amateur Radio Club on Campus! Please join us to create a glowing future for Ham Radio at Lawrence tech!
What we need, from LTU Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumnae:
· At least four Officers/members to form the nucleus of the Society. They need not be licensed.
· Club Station Trustee: Dr. Kun Hua, KD8PBA, Assistant Professor of ECE department. Dr. Hua has been teaching EEE 6444 Software Defined Radio course for MSECE graduate students since 2010, and has advised a couple of Software Radio research projects with the interest student groups.
· A Meeting Place/Software Radio System. Dr. Kun Hua has volunteered some of his laboratory space in the Engineering Building, several Software Radio Systems and future grant support for this purpose.
· Mentoring, to Get On The Air. Jerry Begel, W9NPI, [Education Coordinator for the Hazel Park Amateur Radio Club (HPARC)] and Dr. Kun Hua, KD8PBA, have volunteered their services, until the Society is again self-sufficient. Jerry has 57 years of Hamming experience, and is a Wireless History lecturer. Other HPARC members, some of whom are LTU alumnae, will also help.
We will hold a “Steering Committee” meeting in August, to plan for the new Academic Year. Contact Kun Hua, or Jerry Begel, for information. Help us to get W8LTU on the Air Once Again!