4-11-2016 DSES Technical Planning Meeting – Deep Space Exploration Society

Planning Meeting Minutes

4-11-2016 DSES Technical Planning Meeting Rev. c web version

News & Announcement Board

Upcoming Activities

We are planning to have our monthly Science Meeting on Monday January 24, 2022 at 6:30 PM MST over Zoom. Dan Layne will discuss interferometry. The email announcement with a meeting link will be sent out as soon as it is ready. If you would like information to participate, please contact us at information(at)dses.science.

Nominations to the DSES Board of Directors are now open, until February 8, 2022. 4 Board seats are open for the upcoming election. One Board member, Myron Babcock, is standing for reelection. Holders of the other 3 seats (Bob Sayers, Bob Haggart, and Gary Agranat) are not running for reelection. The term of office is 2 years. An email notice has been sent to all our membership. Please send your nominations to one of the three other Board members not up for election this year (Floyd Glick, Don Latham, and Ray Uberecken) or to board(at)dses.science, per our email. Also, you can let the Board know if you are interested to serve on it and would like to be nominated. Per our by-laws, ballots will then be sent on February 13 to members who have paid to be in the voting member category ($50/year). Board elections will be completed on February 22.

In March, we will hold our All Members Meeting, virtually online, due to COVID-19. At that time the new Board will elect or assign the DSES President, Vice President, and Treasurer. These officers will be members of the Board. The Board will also elect the Secretary, who does not have to be a Board member.

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We will have our monthly DSES Engineering and Operations Meeting on Monday January 10, 2022 at 6:30 PM Mountain Time (US) using Zoom. Invitations to the meeting have been sent by email to our lists. If you would like information to participate, please contact us at information(at)dses.science.

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At this time we are holding our monthly meetings as virtual meetings. Our engineering meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month. Our science meetings are held on the fourth Monday of each month. Start time is now 6:30 PM (Mountain Time). Email notifications are sent to members prior to the meetings. If you would like information to participate, please contact us at information(at)dses.science.

Recent past meetings are presently archived on Floyd Glick's website, at the top section for DSES: http://www.bd-oculars.com/downloads/Equipment_Inventory.htm.

Work trips to the Haswell antenna site are generally scheduled for each third Saturday of the month, with weather alternates on Sunday. This third weekend was chosen because it comes between our engineering and science meetings. Having a regular date helps our members plan ahead, especially those who must travel long distances. During the Covid-19 pandemic, work and science trips may be coordinated for other times. NOTE: Please coordinate with us before you go to the Plishner site, information(at)dses.science.

News

The notes from our DSES Science Meeting of December 27, 2022 are posted.

We completed operating for the second round of the 2021 ARRL EME Moon Bounce contest on the weekend of December 18 & 19, 2021. We operated at 1296 MHz using our 60-foot dish antenna at the Plishner site in Kiowa County. We communicated around the world by bouncing our signals off of the Moon. Combined with our operation on the first round on November 20 & 21, we made 92 contacts in total. 54 contacts used Morse Code CW, 2 used SSB voice, and this time a substantial portion of our contacts were by digital, using the new Q65 mode -- with 36 contacts. 53 of our contacts were with Europe, 33 with North America, 3 with South America, 2 with Oceana (Australia and the Philippines), and one to Asia (Japan). Participating this year were Ray Uberecken (AA0L), Gary Agranat (WA2JQZ), Dan Layne (AD0CY), Jim Burnett (WB0GMR), Bill Miller (KC0FHN), Floyd Glick (WD0CUJ), Glenn Davis, and Marc Stover. This time all of our systems worked well. This was our most successful EME event to date. More details to come.

The video recording and meeting presentation slides for the DSES Science Meeting of September 27, 2021 are available: here. These are also available from the DSES Science Meeting master directory, which we began this year.

Website Update Notes

Active Experiments

Current experiments now in progress at the Plishner Radio Astronomy & Space Science Center site in Haswell:

60-foot dish antenna:

Current main work with the 60-foot antenna is to develop our ability to detect pulsars. We are doing this at several wavelength bands. During the winter, work will continue with observing galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz.

We are regularly using the 60 foot dish antenna for joint observing runs for SETI with Skip Crilly at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. These joint observations are discussed in several of Skip's presentation slides. Please see our presentations page.

Jupiter Radio Science Experiment "Radio Jove":
20.1 MHz monitoring of Jupiter and its moon Io, using a 2-element phased dipole antenna - currently down, pending repair of the receiver.

Experiments in Colorado Springs:

Drift scan survey of Milky Way of HI 1420 MHz spectral line.

Development of hardware/software and techniques for detecting pulsars.

Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor (SID):
- 25 kHz VLF Solar flare monitoring

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