Hi Mark, (inline reply) On 09-08-15 18:50, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
Hi all,
The Belgian Amateur radio organisation (UBA) had a small infobooth at FOSDEM 2015 promoting ham-radio. For 2016, we like to expand this with some practicle demos and a permanent station. [...]
Who in the FOSDEM organisation and/or the ULB can we contact for this? The call for participation (stands) has not been sent out yet. As an indication, last year, this happened on September 19.
Thanks. The thing is that, for us, "participating" is more then just "a room with a projector and a timeslot to give a talk". As explained, we have a couple of ideas for actual demonstrations (i.e. real ham-radio stations with real antennes emitting real RF signals), so we are very well aware that there practicle issues and -more importantly- safety-issues to look at. (part of ham-radio is about doing our hobby safely for ourselfs and for others. It's actually in the exam for the ham-radio license :-) ) In a practicle sence, it does not make sence to make a proposal for participation to FOSDEM saying "we would like to set up a HF station", if we aren't even sure if there is a place to put up an antenne far enough away from the thousands of people visiting FOSDEM. Hence, it will probably be usefull for us to have a talk beforehand with the FOSDEM and/or ULB people to know what is possible and what not, so we can then make the request for participation based on that.
Mark Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.