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AMSAT/TAPR 2011 Banquet

The fifth annual joint AMSAT/TAPR Banquet will be held Friday evening, May 20, 2011 during the Dayton Hamvention.

The Banquet will be at the:

Kohler Presidental Banquet Center
4572 Presidential Way
Kettering, OH 45429
(just south of Dayton).

Reservations are required and must be made by Monday, 16 May 2010 . Seating is limited, so make your reservations early.

The price for the Banquet is $30 per person. Reserved tickets may be picked up at the AMSAT booth at Hamvention on Friday, or at the door.

You may make reservations for the 2011 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet online in the AMSAT Store. AMSAT Presidents Club Gold members should let Martha know if they are planning to attend the banquet. Reserved tickets can be picked up at the AMSAT booth on Friday or at the door to the Banquet.

For additional information contact Martha at the AMSAT office (martha@amsat.org).
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Banquet Schedule

6:30 PM Doors open and Cash bar is available with Beer, Wine, Liquor and soft drinks.

7:15 PM Buffet Dinner service begins. The Center has a justly deserved reputation for good food and service.

8:15 Presentation by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR

(At the last minute, David Rowe, VK5DGR, had to cancel his trip to
Dayton for personal reasons)

Bob accepted our invitation to be the speaker for the evening, his topic is "Power from Space and in Your Shack"

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"Power from Space and in Your Shack"
By Bob Bruninga, WB4APR

Last year Solar energy passed from a niche market for greenies to an
economic opportunity that beats money in the bank. The monetary return
for every dollar on your roof can exceed 10% per year for life which far
exceeds the security of any other investment in a bank or our fickle
economy. But this economic advantage is overlooked, misunderstood or
wasted by many hams because of our warped and twisted prior love-affairs
with batteries and generators on which we depend for field-day and
emergency power.

To fully grasp today's economics of renewable energy we must learn to
completely separate our needs for economical energy 99.9% of the time
from our desires for emergency power for only 0.1% of the time. There
are economical solutions for both but they are separate and mutually
exclusive.

Further, over the last decades there has been a hidden evolution of
power supplies in every aspect of our daily lives. Everything we do
with energy from our ham shack to our big screen TV depends on this
technology but it has also provided us with unbelievable versatility to
access power from just about any source from 100 to 240 VAC or 100 to
330 VDC or any voltage down to 12 volts.. Where to find power? Have you
looked on the roof of your house or under the hood of your car recently?

The better that hams understand these subtle evolutionary changes in
energy, the better we are prepared not only for Field Day, for
emergencies but also for the future of our families.

Updated: 13 May, 11

AMSAT/TAPR 2011 Banquet

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