User:Rhorton4549/enes100/HAM

Team Page: BH^2

Write problem statement
Research possible ideas for HAM project from constructing a radio transceiver to modifying a router to create a super wifi hotspot.

Assign Task1
Perform web searches for possible ideas.

Compare actual work done to Task1
Rationalize differences

Week1 Narrative
Did web searches using Google for: "How to build a transceiver", "Basic transceiver designs", "How to build a radio." Found three websites dedicated to HAM radio design with many homebrew schematics with parts lists for various power, bands, size, and degree of difficulty. Some of the designs seems very involved taking perhaps many days to build while others could be done in an afternoon. Wrote down website URLs and thoughts on viability of the designs on each site.

Vanyi.net (Homebrew)

Radio Amateur Society of Norwich

High-Voltage-Lab

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Find out what materials are necessary for building a foxhole radio.

Compare actual work done to Task2
Located a youtube video that covers the construction and operation of a foxhole radio. The creator of the video details methods that either worked or failed in the build.

PDF detailing construction.

Week2 Narrative
Monday was spent mostly discussing the project with my team mates. Wednesday, John disassembled a pair of walkie talkies that he had brought from home while I took notes in my notebook and took photos with my phone.

Assign Task3
Over the weekend I will be attending CARAFest on Saturday to help setup for the actual event on Sunday.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Rationalize differences

Week3 Narrative
Went to the Howard County Fairgrounds on Saturday to help setup for the CARAfest on Sunday. Met Dave Prestel who is the VP of CARA. While there was not a lot of setup to be done for the event on Sunday, Dave talked a lot about CARA and amateur radio in general.

Assign Task4
Begin work on team page for the end of the project.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Began to edit the team page by adding weekly reports, adding to the material list, and starting to write the story of the project.

Week4 Narrative
Discussed approach on how to tackle "Team Done" page with group and thought about whether or not to continue with the project. Created a Team Weekly Report page and linked it with the main 550_BH^2 team page and started writing the summary and story.

Complete Project Page
I provided information on the number of hours I worked to Felix for the Team Done page along with information for the Story, Summary, and Team Weekly Report.

Start Next Project Week0 activities
I will be starting work on the Wind Tunnel project and have created a new team page and and individual page