USNA Amateur Radio Club

Brigade SupportPublic Service & Emergency ResponseStudent ProjectsExtracurricular Activities

W3ADO

May 2007

RAFT & MARScom

W3ADO WEB pageW3ADO

Oldest ECA at USNA

* Individuals Licensed by FCC

* Personal Advancement, Training in the Radio Art

* Public Service in times of Disaster and Emergency Comms

* Military Affiliate Radio Station (Navy/Marine MARS)

Since 1928

Post – Katrina (and every other disaster too)

*Amateur Radio is often the only thing still on the air after disasters

*And first thing on the air for responders

* Why? Peer-to-peer

Annual 13th Co Football RunSituational Awareness GPS tracking LIVE to WEB

Blue Force Tracking

Annual 13th Co Football RunSituational Awareness GPS tracking LIVE to WEB

Blue Force Tracking

W3ADO User Station(Blue Force Tracking)

SeaTrials Radio Comms

USNA Marconi 100th Reenactment

St Johns Newfoundland

USNA team of mids

Spark Gap Reenactment

W3ADO Cross Country Tracking

Ex-Navy

Marine Corps

Pilot

Venus Transit Support

8 June 2004

6th time for humankind

1st time ever with Radio

Midn Hale (-Bop)

Other Radio Club Activities

Annual Moonbounce Event

Football & Boat GPS Tracking, Comms, Imagry, Data, Internet

Imagery

W3ADO, oldest USNA ECA (1928)

Sea Trials

USNA Amateur Radio Satellites

USNA worldwide Leader in

Amateur Radio Satellites

Five USNA Amateur Satellites

RAFT

PCSAT

Aug 2005- Sept 2006 Dec 21, 2006 Dec 21, 2006

30 Sep 2001

USNA Amateur Radio Satellites

Required by ITU treaties to be CLUB operated

RULES: B. Station Control.Space and Earth stations, must be controlled by "duly authorized persons," that is, licensed amateur radio operators who must be acting "solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest." [See | RR S1.56 and S1.57.]

Commonly, the licensee is an unpaid member of the organization which owns the amateur station equipment or is a volunteer acting in close association with it. In these cases, the owner's interest and the licensee's "personal interest" are usually the same.

Thus, the individual responsibility of the licensed operator, effectively imposed by the Radio Regulations, works as a kind of legal safety check for the organization and the amateur to protect both of their interests as well as that of the Amateur Satellite Service itself.

USNA W3ADO Constellation

W3ADO-1, launched 30 Sept 2001

Team: 6 Students/yr, 2 Profs, 1 Engineer2200 Amateur Satellite Users

Still semi-operational

Internet Linked Ground Station Network

www.ariss.net pcsat.aprs.org

Internet Linked Ground Stns

www.ariss.net pcsat.aprs.org

Global Blue Force Tracking

Blue Force Tracking

www.ariss.net pcsat.aprs.org

USNA Graduates at Sea

Other Experiments through W3ADO Satellite

Antarctic WX stationF-16 downed flyer demo (Rome Air Development Center)Arctic Tracking (trucks up frozen rivers >70º Latitude)ISS Joint Ops (2 weeks of constellation flying)USNA Marconi Re-enactment (St Johns Newfoundland)2200 other users worldwide

Air & Space Museum

Donated April 2004 to Smithsonian

For Display

At Dulles

W3ADO-2 on ISSReturned August 2006 after a year’s exposure

W3ADO-2 Satellite – 26 July 2005

Midshipmen involved in early integration and testing of PCSat2 electronics.

Two views of the initial deployment of MISSE/PCSat by astronaut Soichi Noguchi. It was installed 8 days after the launch of STS-114 (26 July 05)

Global Situational Awareness Network

ANDE Satellite3rd USNA Satellite

ANDE Deployment 21 Dec 2006

Initially FCAL separated from the container, but not ANDE

Radar returns later indicated ANDE separation

3rd USNA Satellite

RAFT Project (4th & 5th Satellites)

RAFT-1 (~PCsat)

MARScom

NSSS Radar Fence

216.98 MHz

NAVSPASUR Radar Fence

RAFT Project (MARScom)

UHF AM up

HF SSB downlink

YP Radios

ISS Amateur Radio

* Almost all USNA Astronauts have their Amateur Radio License

USNA Comms with Space Station

RS0ISS>PP0PP0,SGATE,qAo: Go Army beat Navy!

PCSAT-1>APRS,SGATE,qAo: Go Navy Beat Army!

PCSAT2>APRS,SGATE,qAo: Go Navy Beat Army!

Extra Curricular ActivitiesW3ADO Radio Club

Annual Field Day Annual Space Day at Smithsonian

W3ADO Club Station(Under Funded and Under Supported)

* Part of new Field House Project

* But ZERO progress

W3ADO Roof

Towers