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Technology Explorer Radio Fab Labs


​Antique Wireless Museum Radio Fab Lab Classes for 2018


As part of AWA's Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) educational initiative, this fall will see the second Radio Fab Lab Level 1 Hands-On Workshop beginning in September 2018.
The series of 12 hands-on events allowing a young person age 10 to 16 to become familiar with many facets of radio technology.  The series is designed to indoctrinate AWA's Technology Explorer members with the world of radio technology.  Memberships for this class of AWA participation can be found here. 
Details for the series are show below.  This flyer (shown below) may be downloaded using button to right.
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Schedule

Below is the schedule for the 2018 Lab events.  Dates for this year begin with September 8 thru December 1, except for November 24, 2018, on Saturdays.
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 RADIO FAB LAB 2018
CLASS SCHEDULE
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           Date           Times                Topic                                                             Presenter(s)
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1.
    
9/8/18         9 – 930 am          AWA Museum Tour                                                        Hobday/Hopkins

                          945- 11 am         Hands-on intro to voltage, resistance, measurement      Hopkins

2.     9/15/18       9 – 11 am            Telegraph, Morse Code, code practice oscillator             Gable

3.     9/22/18       9 – 11 am            Receivers, crystal sets – simple and complex                  Erdle

4.     9/29/18       9 – 9:45 am          Crystal set – complex project                                          Erdle
                         10 – 11 am           Introduction to transmitters, spark, tube, transistor       Hobday                      

5.     10/6/18       9 – 11 am            Introduction to amateur radio, dipole                              Sanchez

6.     10/13/18     9 – 11 am            Introduction to antennas,                                                Carey
                                                        demo tuned vs untuned antenna
effectiveness  

7.     10/20/18     9 – 11 am            Waves, audio amplifier                                                     Roloson/Waterstraat

8.     10/27/18     9 – 11 am            Wave propagation, optics demo                                       Flowers

9.     11/3/18       9 – 11 am            Basic radio propagation, intro to digital modes                Healy

10.  11/10//18     9 – 11 am            Digital modes, SDR, fiber optics                                       Healy

11.  12/1//18       9 – 9:45 am          Telephone, cellular                                                           Conner
                             10 – 11 am          Communication of drones, drone demo

12.  12/8/18         9 – 11 am            SDR, digital counter                                                         Healy/Flowers
                                                         Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge                                            Fell     

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