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NWS Nashville’s annual Severe Weather Awareness Day (SWAD) has officially been scheduled for Saturday, February 21, 2026 at Trevecca Nazarene University starting at 9am

ARRL

12/02/2025

A group of students at Cornell University is seeking participation from radio amateurs who are equipped with satellite stations for help in listening for signals from a retroreflective laser sail that is scheduled to be deployed later this week. The sail is currently attached to a 1U CubeSat that was launched early Tuesday, December 2, 2025, from the International Space Station, but will separate and become its own free-flying spacecraft equipped with four tiny “ChipSat” flight computers that will transmit telemetry data back to Earth.

This is the first flight of their ChipSats, and it is this data that the students seek help detecting, according to Ph.D. candidate Joshua Umansky-Castro, who has an amateur radio license; call sign KD2WTQ. The light sail’s ChipSats will be transmitting data using the LoRa® digital protocol on 437.400 MHz. The sail, stowed within the CubeSat, is expected be released a couple of days after deployment — tentatively this Thursday, December 4 — and will likely function independently for no more than 48 hours due to the drag created by the sail.

Additional information, including LoRa parameters and links to a list of compatible receivers and the decoder file, may be found at alphacubesat.cornell.edu in the ChipSat Ground Station Guide (docx).

It is hoped that the ChipSat and light sail will become the trailblazer for future missions around the solar system, and one day to our closest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri.

With the upcoming holiday like millions of other Americans I will be traveling. So I will not be posting much if anything in the way of updates after Sunday the 23rd through the Saturday the 29th.

I hope that everyone else that is traveling will have safe travels and a Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Ken Sawyer.     KJ4PUK

Christmas Parade

Please make sure you dress for the weather. Bring a ht and meshtastic  if you have it

Also a reflective Safety vest

Just one of many YouTube channels explaining Meshtastis

Just one of the places you can buy one from https://store.rokland.com/products/wismesh-tag-from-rakwireless-mokosmart-meshtastic-compatible-card-sized-node-us915-mhz/?ref=km4ack.

Full transparency this an affiliate link same price of $50.00 as on their website but a % goes to a club member. So if you plan on getting one why not support a club member.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsIWyVzqJPM&list=PLshzThxhw4O5JTOACGHzYSSd3soDhoXKK

A G4-level severe geomagnetic storm watch has been issued, starting from mid-to-late November 12 (UTC), with potential effects spilling over into November 13. This event stems from a high-speed coronal mass ejection (CME) launched by an intense X5.1 solar flare from Active Region 4274 early Tuesday morning. Those chasing auroras in mid-latitude regions: keep your eyes peeled for dazzling displays. Heads up preliminary geomagnetic activity might already be underway upon the CME’s arrival, thanks to preceding shockwaves from earlier X1.7 and X1.2 flares sweeping past Earth. Brace for some turbulent cosmic conditions!

Source CMEAlerts.com

Stones River Amateur Radio Club Christmas Dinner once again this year.  The dinner will again be held at the Blackman Community Club located at 4310 Mason Pike, Murfreesboro, TN.  The date will be Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 6pm.

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TN-MAG 11/8 Chapel Hill

·         SkyWarn Training Nov 11

·         SRARC Christmas Dinner 12/13 at 6p

·         Murfreesboro Christmas Parade 12/14 at 9a