December Meeting
7-Dec-2021, 7.30-9pm
Online by Zoom |
"Unusual Club of the FBK"
Peter Ebsworth LB0K / G8CBK |
Our December talk on Tue Dec 7th will have a seasonal Nordic flavour as we get closer to Xmas:
Peter Ebsworth, LB0K / G8CBK, will talk about the history of broadcasting
around the city of Bergen in Norway and especially of the transmitting site at Erdal which
includes a Marconi transmitter, that is now a venue for
Norwegian Amateur Radio Club LA1ASK.
On site are former Telefunken and Marconi broadcast transmitters.
One of the remits is to continue broadcasting from the site,
as a museum activity and to keep a (national) presence on the Medium Waves,
on 1314 and 1611kHz.
Zoom:
Meeting ID: 874 6981 6487
Passcode: 551028
January Meeting
4-Jan-2022, 7.30-9pm
Online by Zoom |
"Cheating at Maths Using Computers"
Damian Bevan G4WPO |
For January we welcome back Damian Bevan G4WPO.
A more serious title for this talk would ‘Using computers to solve mathematical problems’.
In 1936, in the ‘age of electricity’, Alan Turing presented his machine which he hypothesised
was able to compute anything which is capable of being computed.
It turns out that around a century earlier, back in the ‘age of steam’, Charles Babbage and Lady Ada Lovelace
had already been having similar thoughts about mechanical computing engines, designed to solve mathematical problems.
In those days, human 'computers' were used to laboriously calculate and tabulate the solutions to maths problems
ranging from trigs and logs, to astronomical, nautical, banking and insurance information etc.
Nowadays, computers are immensely more powerful than they were in either Babbage’s or Turing’s time.
Damian will touch upon some modern computing tools, which are available to us all in
order to solve everyday problems, before briefly wondering
whether computing has anything to say about the nature of our lives and the universe itself.
Zoom:
Meeting ID: 871 2660 8028
Passcode: 144180
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CARS Meeting Place
CARS meet on the First Tuesday in the month at the Oaklands Museum, Moulsham Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 9AQ.
We meet on the First Floor. There is a lift for wheel chairs.
Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start. Please identify yourself when you sign in
and purchase a Raffle Ticket or two for Club Funds.
Tea/Coffee/Biscuits is available at 9pm break time. There
is normally no admission fee to CARS Meetings - Visitors are always welcome.
The Raffle is drawn after the refreshment interval.
Meetings end at 10pm, as the gates will be locked at 10.15pm!
Oaklands Museum, Chelmsford.
Directions / Parking
You can drive all the way up Moulsham Street from Parkway but NOT the other way.
Another way is to enter Moulsham Street after going round the Miami Roundabout (by
Tesco), then along New London Road 200 yards, turn right into Moulsham Street and after
100 yards turn right again into the Museum.
NOTE: There is plenty of car parking space but do not park directly in front of the
Museum - that is reserved for people unloading kit and Disabled car drivers.
Also - take care as there are three severe Sleeping Policeman as well.
CARS Membership
Membership is £15/pa based on our October AGM and Constitution.
Further details and forms are on our Membership page
- Those aged under 16 or in full-time education receive FREE membership
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