Date
Time
Location
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Saturday February 5, 2022
9 AM to 5 PM Pacific Standard Time
This year will be virtual over YouTube and Zoom

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What is BayCon? 

BayCon is the annual meeting of the BayNet Amateur Radio Club in the San Francisco Bay Area.  It's also our annual fund raiser.
BayNet provides a multi-site open repeater network covering the Bay Area from two high radio sites.  The sites are linked full time providing wide area coverage on our conventional FM repeater system.  We also host a DMR repeater and talkgroup, a Fusion repeater and room as well as a D-STAR repeater.
Bay-Net's primary served agency is the American Red Cross.  We provide wide area emergency communications infrastructure in times of disaster and for various public service group events.
The equipment is bought and paid for by the generous donations from a few club members, however, our annual operating expenses are more than $2,000 to pay for radio site rental, insurance and maintenance.  BayNet is open to all radio amateurs and we don't take dues.  That means that BayCon is the one and only way we generate our operating funds.  Please buy as many tickets to the drawing as you can to help fund our efforts.  If you would like a tax deduction, you can also make a donation.  BayNet is a 501(c)3 educational organization.
Thank you !

Registration and Attending BayCon

On the day of the event, we will livestream all the presentations on YouTube.  You can watch for free.
If you would like to financially support BayNet and have a chance to win one of the great raffle prizes, you will need to register and buy one or more tickets.  The more tickets you buy, the better the odds of winning !
AGENDA AND SPEAKERS - Times are in Pacific Standard Time
8:30 YouTube stream and Zoom call goes live - virtual doors open
9:00     Welcome and BayNet Update - George KJ6VU
  • Welcome to BayCon 2022.  In this session we will talk about the day's activities and give an intro and update on the BayNet club and radio network. 
  • George is a founder and director of BayNet.  An avid repeater builder, homebrewer and field operator, George is also the host of the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast.
9:30     John VE6EY Diversity reception
10:15     Kyle AA0Z Getting started with Node Red
11:00    Mark Smith An Appliance For Operating FM Satellites
11:45    Vince VE6LK Building Your Go-Kit
12:30    Lunch Break - 30 minutes
1:00     Marcel AI6MS Radio Propagation Mapping
1:45     Christian NV2J Radio control keypad for the FT891
  • This presentation will focus on the design and building a keypad to control a Yaesu FT-891 HF radio with an Arduino microcontroller.
  • Christian has been licensed since 2017, and considers himself a newbie in ham radio.  He isinterested in field operation, and learning to make simple devices for use in amateur radio.
2:30    Mike VA3MW LAN replacing RS232
3:15     George KJ6VU BenchDuino Arduino Nano Dev Board
  • Arduino microcontrollers are used in many applications in the ham shack.  The BenchDuino development board supports the popular Arduino Nano Every MCU with a convenient set of peripheral devices to make new application development easier.  Project examples include temperature controlled relays, logging volt meter and a low voltage disconnect circuit. 
3:45    Mathison KJ6DZE San Francisco Wireless Emergency Mesh Network
4:30    Wrap up

All the presentation content from BayCon is available on the Resources tab

All presentation audio is recorded and is being made available through the
Ham Radio Workbench Podcast

DRAWING AND SILENT AUCTION ITEMS TO BE UPDATED FOR 2022





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