USNA Amateur Radio Club  Brigade Support  Public Service & Emergency Response  Student Projects  Extracurricular Activities W3ADO May 2007 RAFT & MARScom

W3ADO WEB page W3ADO

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 13 th Co Football Run Situational Awareness GPS tracking LIVE to WEB Blue Force Tracking

Annual 13 th Co Football Run Situational Awareness GPS tracking LIVE to WEB Blue Force Tracking

W3ADO User Station (Blue Force Tracking)

SeaTrials Radio Comms

USNA Marconi 100 th 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 th time for humankind 1 st 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 Sept 2006 Dec 21, 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 Engineer 2200 Amateur Satellite Users Still semi-operational

Internet Linked Ground Station Network pcsat.aprs.org

Internet Linked Ground Stns pcsat.aprs.org Global Blue Force Tracking

Blue Force Tracking pcsat.aprs.org

USNA Graduates at Sea

Other Experiments through W3ADO Satellite  Antarctic WX station  F-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 ISS Returned 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 Satellite 3 rd USNA Satellite

ANDE Deployment 21 Dec 2006 Initially FCAL separated from the container, but not ANDE Radar returns later indicated ANDE separation 3 rd USNA Satellite

RAFT Project (4 th & 5 th Satellites) RAFT-1 (~PCsat) MARScom NSSS Radar Fence 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 Activities W3ADO Radio Club Annual Field DayAnnual Space Day at Smithsonian

W3ADO Club Station (Under Funded and Under Supported)

* Part of new Field House Project * But ZERO progress W3ADO Roof Towers