ROCHESTER AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION

Spring 2000 Program

     We ended our 3rd 10 week program with Ms. Reichert's 6th grade class at Thomas Jefferson School
in Rochester on April 13th.
 

DATE ACTIVITY
February 3  Session #1 - Overview of Radio Services
- Outline and Expectations of the program 
- Exploring the HF Bands 
- Exploring the VHF/UHF bands 
- Common and uncommon radios in our lives
February 10 Session #2 - Morse Code Key Construction

            - Construct code key 
            - Morse Code practice
February 17 Session #3 - Basic Electricity

            - Electrostatic voltage demos 
            - Voltage and Battery demos 
            - Generator, solenoid, motor demos 
            - Current flow and circuits 
March 2 Session #4 - Field Trip - WXXI TV
March 9 Session #5 - Electronic Components

            - Review of Volts, Current, Resistance 
            - Introduce Resistance, Ohms Law, and VOM meter 
            - Make thin film resistor and measure resistance 
            - Capacitors description and demos 
            - Demo 555 oscillator with resistor substitutions 
 
March 15 Session #6 - RG&E Radio and Energy Control Center field trip
March 23 Session #7 - How the Siren/Oscillator works
- Schematic, Block Diagram, Resistor substitution demo 
- Loudspeaker 
- Microphone 
- Amplifier 
- Audio Oscillator and Oscilloscope
March 30 Session #8 - Construct Siren/Oscillator

          - Soldering 
          - Complete the Siren/Oscillator project 
          - Morse Code fun 
April 6 Session #9 - Harris RF Communications field trip
April 13 Session #10 - Grand Finale 
- Radio history presentation: "From Sparks to Spaceships" 
- Demo a spark gap transmitter 
- Scheduled 10 meter contact 
- Other uses of the Siren/Oscillator
- TV conference between this class and the next class 
- "Archie" comic book 
- Feedback and farewells

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April 16, 2000