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Thanks for tuning into this 00:02:05.909 --> 00:02:09.250 episode of Ham Talk Live. Tonight on the show, 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:12.710 the 2013 amateur radio news line Young Ham of 00:02:12.710 --> 00:02:16.639 the Year. Patrick Lassendreau, KC9UUS stops by 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:19.580 to talk about life since the award, including 00:02:19.580 --> 00:02:23.159 his internship at SpaceX, preparing a satellite 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.060 at Cornell and his studies. And we'll take your 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:30.240 calls live in just a few minutes. Last week on 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:32.460 the show, we had a great time on the road trip 00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:34.819 to Dayton. Several people stopped by the Spring 00:02:34.819 --> 00:02:37.759 Hill Suites meeting room to hear the show broadcast 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.860 live. And we were able to convince several to 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:42.330 come on the show. 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Today 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:14.150 I'm home in Bloomington recovering from missing 00:04:14.150 --> 00:04:17.589 school for two days due to Hamvention and all 00:04:17.589 --> 00:04:20.589 the running around in Dayton. It was a very busy 00:04:20.589 --> 00:04:23.230 week. Contest University on Thursday was a great 00:04:23.230 --> 00:04:28.250 experience as always. as it was for some of my 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:31.129 high school students that were able to go and 00:04:31.129 --> 00:04:35.209 my assistant sponsor for the school club doing 00:04:35.209 --> 00:04:39.110 the show on Thursday night. This show was very 00:04:39.110 --> 00:04:42.829 fun and thanks again to Ryan Cutshall, KD9DAB 00:04:42.829 --> 00:04:44.970 and his father Rex for helping out with the setup 00:04:44.970 --> 00:04:47.550 and greeting people and thanks to Nick Bauer, 00:04:47.589 --> 00:04:51.290 KC9GZY for managing all the calls that came in 00:04:51.290 --> 00:04:54.850 and making things run smoothly. Then Friday was 00:04:54.850 --> 00:04:57.170 the instructor's forum where the younger sister 00:04:57.170 --> 00:05:00.750 of tonight's guest spoke about getting more women 00:05:00.750 --> 00:05:05.629 into ham radio. And then Ryan helped me set up. 00:05:05.910 --> 00:05:09.649 He was able to operate W8D for the first time 00:05:09.649 --> 00:05:13.689 as a general. He got his upgrade and got to use 00:05:13.689 --> 00:05:17.430 the ICOM 7851, a full legal limit amplifier and 00:05:17.430 --> 00:05:20.129 a hex beam. Thanks to the support of so many 00:05:20.129 --> 00:05:24.660 manufacturers and dealers, ICOM, Yezu, Kenwood, 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.600 Array Solutions, GigaParts, Radio Waves, and 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.459 Heil Sound, just to name a few. Saturday was 00:05:31.459 --> 00:05:35.360 the Youth Forum, and I ended up on video recording 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.439 duty this year for that. Maria was recognized 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.779 there for her talk on Friday, and 11 young people 00:05:41.779 --> 00:05:44.180 shared their stories about ham radio. And then 00:05:44.180 --> 00:05:47.680 in the afternoon, I was able to get on W8D. and 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:51.360 use the Kenwood TS -990 for an hour or so and 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.160 try that out first time I ever got a chance to 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.500 play with one of those. So that was a lot of 00:05:56.500 --> 00:05:59.779 fun and did a little bit of shopping and then 00:05:59.779 --> 00:06:01.860 stopped by the Voice of America Museum on the 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:03.920 way home. They had a great turnout for that. 00:06:04.740 --> 00:06:08.540 So shout out to the Westchester Amateur Radio 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:11.839 Club for putting that on. And then it was time 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.769 to get home. throw everything in the house and 00:06:15.769 --> 00:06:18.470 start working on final exams and finish grading 00:06:18.470 --> 00:06:21.569 and I finally finished last night about 10 30. 00:06:22.050 --> 00:06:26.550 So after some rest, it'll be time to get ready 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:29.649 for a transmitter hunt for the school. We'll 00:06:29.649 --> 00:06:32.149 be doing that next week and then field day will 00:06:32.149 --> 00:06:34.910 be coming up and some repeater work coming up 00:06:34.910 --> 00:06:38.389 that's long overdue now that I have some time 00:06:38.389 --> 00:06:43.269 to do it. So that's what's coming up. for me. 00:06:43.569 --> 00:06:45.750 Well three years ago Maria's brother Patrick 00:06:45.750 --> 00:06:48.970 was a speaker at the Youth Forum and there he 00:06:48.970 --> 00:06:52.310 shared about his de -expedition to Cyprus and 00:06:52.310 --> 00:06:56.449 after that presentation he was featured in QST. 00:06:57.189 --> 00:06:59.949 He authored an article, won the cover plaque 00:06:59.949 --> 00:07:03.709 award, won amateur radio news line, Young Ham 00:07:03.709 --> 00:07:07.149 of the Year award, the ARRL Goldfarb scholarship, 00:07:07.269 --> 00:07:11.779 and the ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim award. He graduated 00:07:11.779 --> 00:07:13.860 from Bloomington High School South and went to 00:07:13.860 --> 00:07:17.019 Cornell University to study physics and engineering. 00:07:17.779 --> 00:07:20.660 And he got involved with a satellite build there, 00:07:20.939 --> 00:07:24.079 which did involve the amateur radio club due 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.500 to the telemetry that needed to be sent back. 00:07:26.860 --> 00:07:30.199 And he found himself interning during the summers 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.259 with SpaceX. And so next, Patrick will join us 00:07:34.259 --> 00:07:36.339 to tell us all about those things and more and 00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:39.189 take your calls. right after this word from Tower 00:07:39.189 --> 00:07:42.230 Electronics right here on HamTalk Live. This 00:07:42.230 --> 00:07:44.569 episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you by 00:07:44.569 --> 00:07:47.389 Tower Electronics. 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They're also coming soon 00:09:21.980 --> 00:09:24.960 to Newberry, Michigan, Monroe, Michigan and Oak 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.440 Creek, Wisconsin. or just call them 920 -435 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:35.179 -2973 or visit PL -259 .com. Be sure to listen 00:09:35.179 --> 00:09:37.919 every Thursday night at 9 p .m. Eastern Time 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.960 right here on HamTalkLive .com and if you missed 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.100 the show you can download the podcast from the 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:46.240 website and most popular podcasting websites. 00:09:47.289 --> 00:09:51.190 Patrick Lassendreau KC9 UUS is a 19 year old 00:09:51.190 --> 00:09:53.889 and just finished his sophomore year at Cornell 00:09:53.889 --> 00:09:57.070 University. He has an extra class amateur radio 00:09:57.070 --> 00:09:59.049 license and has been a ham for about four and 00:09:59.049 --> 00:10:01.799 a half years. Uh, he's a former student of mine 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:03.679 at Bloomington high school south, where he was 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:06.139 president of the amateur radio club and very 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:09.299 active in the solar racing program there. Patrick's 00:10:09.299 --> 00:10:12.419 entire family became hands. His mother, Carolyn 00:10:12.419 --> 00:10:16.120 KC9URR is the assistant sponsor of the Bloomington 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:19.799 south club and is an avid DXer. This father, 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.779 Plato is KC9VIL. And, um, we'd like to wish Plato 00:10:24.779 --> 00:10:28.220 a happy birthday today, by the way. Um, his older 00:10:28.220 --> 00:10:32.299 sister, Helena is KC9VIL. She is attending Purdue 00:10:32.299 --> 00:10:35.379 University studying biology and is doing a summer 00:10:35.379 --> 00:10:39.940 program in medicine at The Ohio State University 00:10:39.940 --> 00:10:44.039 this summer. And younger sister Maria is KD9BUS 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:47.139 and she will be a senior next year at Bloomington 00:10:47.139 --> 00:10:50.559 High School South. Patrick is a past Hamvention 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.200 Youth Forum speaker, leader of the Expedition 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:57.120 to Cyprus, QST author, the winner of the ARRL 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.440 Hiram Percy Maxim Award and the Goldfarb Scholarship, 00:11:00.779 --> 00:11:03.879 and the 2013 amateur radio news line Young Ham 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.539 of the Year. Patrick's main interest has been 00:11:06.539 --> 00:11:10.039 making and inventing. He created his own electrical 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:12.159 laboratory at home and started building. Now 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.179 he's building even bigger and better things like 00:11:15.179 --> 00:11:18.970 satellites and projects for SpaceX. He just made 00:11:18.970 --> 00:11:21.289 it home from Cornell yesterday and leaves for 00:11:21.289 --> 00:11:24.789 his summer internship there in a few days. So 00:11:24.789 --> 00:11:26.769 we were lucky enough to squeeze in an interview 00:11:26.769 --> 00:11:30.110 while he's home. So, Patrick, welcome to HamTalk 00:11:30.110 --> 00:11:35.529 Live. Thank you very much, Mr. App. Yeah, so 00:11:35.529 --> 00:11:39.570 real quick before we get too deep into this, 00:11:40.210 --> 00:11:44.350 we want to wish Plato a happy birthday. He was 00:11:44.350 --> 00:11:48.080 with us this weekend. And so we want to do that. 00:11:48.379 --> 00:11:53.500 So, so go ahead and we'll get that in. Okay. 00:11:56.220 --> 00:12:00.200 So go ahead. All right. Yeah. So happy birthday 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:05.360 to Plato. Beloved father, he's in the room next 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.200 to me. I don't know if he can hear me, but we're 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.000 going to have dinner tonight with him. So we're 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:13.399 going to celebrate that. But yeah, so a whole 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:19.320 family is a ham family. including the dad so 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:28.620 yeah so I'm home for three days unfortunately 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:33.200 I could not go to Dayton this year or last year 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.340 finals are pretty much right after Dayton so 00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:40.159 just no way for me to go that's unfortunate I 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:44.100 really miss it especially the flea market Um, 00:12:44.460 --> 00:12:47.679 but so yeah, that was unfortunate, but now I 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.940 do understand that, uh, that after, um, we got 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:54.480 done on, on Friday, your mom said I have to go 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:59.480 take care of Padring shopping list. So you had, 00:12:59.620 --> 00:13:02.460 you, you sent your mom a shopping list for the 00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:06.059 flea market at Dayton. Yeah, I did. Um, well, 00:13:06.059 --> 00:13:10.219 I sent her a list of things to just look. So 00:13:10.219 --> 00:13:12.940 one of the biggest things for me was Michael 00:13:12.940 --> 00:13:14.899 Ostman of Great Scott Gadgets. I wanted her to 00:13:14.899 --> 00:13:16.779 go talk to him. He's got a really cool product, 00:13:16.820 --> 00:13:19.419 the HackRF. Basically a small software -defined 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:24.779 radio with some really mad specs. Very, very 00:13:24.779 --> 00:13:27.179 cool board. Kind of expensive, but I'm looking 00:13:27.179 --> 00:13:29.340 for that as maybe a birthday or Christmas present. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:34.940 Definitely need to get into using GNU Radio and 00:13:34.940 --> 00:13:37.580 SDRs. I also asked her to go look at, see if 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:41.100 they had any like photovoltaic cells, just for 00:13:41.100 --> 00:13:44.139 my own experimentation. I think a couple other 00:13:44.139 --> 00:13:48.080 parts I couldn't, I can't really remember. But 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.860 yeah, I always give her a list. It's very hard 00:13:51.860 --> 00:13:56.919 to find a specific thing at the Hamvention, but 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.279 it's always, you know, it's worth the look so. 00:14:01.450 --> 00:14:03.870 Well, what they always say about Hamvention is 00:14:03.870 --> 00:14:07.649 if you can't find it at Dayton, it doesn't exist. 00:14:08.190 --> 00:14:12.789 And that's probably true. Well, I'm glad, uh, 00:14:12.789 --> 00:14:15.049 glad she was able to take care of some of that, 00:14:15.049 --> 00:14:19.409 uh, in your absence. So, um, tell us about, um, 00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:22.129 the news line young ham of the year award and 00:14:22.129 --> 00:14:25.230 how, uh, that has impacted what you do and what 00:14:25.230 --> 00:14:28.860 that's meant to you. Absolutely. The Young Ham 00:14:28.860 --> 00:14:31.919 of the Year Award was given to me in 2013 in 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:35.519 Huntsville, Alabama at the Huntsville Ham Fest, 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:39.240 which is also a great ham fest for flea market. 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:47.379 It's a wonderful award. It really promotes technology 00:14:47.379 --> 00:14:51.179 and youth. I felt very supported by that award. 00:14:51.340 --> 00:14:55.200 I'm very grateful for it. And one of the greatest 00:14:55.200 --> 00:15:00.519 outcomes from that is just networking in general. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:05.360 I met a lot of really nice and cool people. So 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:08.860 Don Wildbanks, I met him out of that. I also 00:15:08.860 --> 00:15:12.639 met Scott Wright out of that. I met a ton of 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:17.220 really great hands. Emmet Hohenzie of Radio Waves. 00:15:17.629 --> 00:15:20.429 Uh, I met a, you know, a ton of really great 00:15:20.429 --> 00:15:22.049 people and there's just so many names I'm not 00:15:22.049 --> 00:15:24.350 listing. Um, I can't think of at the moment, 00:15:25.049 --> 00:15:26.610 but that, I mean, that's definitely one of the 00:15:26.610 --> 00:15:29.929 greatest outcomes. Um, and you know, it's an 00:15:29.929 --> 00:15:31.870 amazing award that they really, they really do 00:15:31.870 --> 00:15:36.409 support, um, uh, young amateurs, um, and their 00:15:36.409 --> 00:15:40.389 journey into the technology world. So, um, yeah, 00:15:40.389 --> 00:15:43.870 I mean, it's a great thing. And the nominating 00:15:43.870 --> 00:15:49.690 period is open now until, um, June 30th, so arnewsline 00:15:49.690 --> 00:15:54.870 .org is the web address and click on the Y -H 00:15:54.870 --> 00:15:59.190 -O -T -Y tab or as I like to call it the Yehody 00:15:59.190 --> 00:16:03.070 tab. Don and I had a show we talked about the 00:16:03.070 --> 00:16:06.509 Yehody thing and we talked about TLAs too, which 00:16:06.509 --> 00:16:10.289 you're the one who introduced me to the TLA. 00:16:11.930 --> 00:16:15.490 Yeah, so the TLAs, the engineering world is full 00:16:15.490 --> 00:16:18.429 of TLAs and FLAs, which are three -letter acronyms 00:16:18.429 --> 00:16:20.190 and four -letter acronyms. And that's just an 00:16:20.190 --> 00:16:23.429 acronym for acronyms. And that was another friend 00:16:23.429 --> 00:16:27.289 of mine at Cornell actually told me that. But 00:16:27.289 --> 00:16:30.610 yeah, we love using that just as a joke, but 00:16:30.610 --> 00:16:34.830 yeah. So Yehudi is a five -letter acronym. It's 00:16:34.830 --> 00:16:40.580 even better. So anyway, that's there. So that's 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:42.779 one of the reasons we have Patrick on tonight 00:16:42.779 --> 00:16:47.139 is is to promote that award. So Get your nominations 00:16:47.139 --> 00:16:52.379 in again AR newsline org and click on the hoodie 00:16:52.379 --> 00:16:56.940 tab. So Tell us about what you've been doing 00:16:56.940 --> 00:17:01.919 with the amateur radio club at Cornell and How 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:06.569 you got involved with violet? the satellite and 00:17:06.569 --> 00:17:11.210 your part in building that. Absolutely. So my 00:17:11.210 --> 00:17:14.170 involvement of those two programs were actually 00:17:14.170 --> 00:17:18.609 totally separate at the beginning. It was the 00:17:18.609 --> 00:17:21.710 W2CXM Amateur Radio Club of Cornell, one of the 00:17:21.710 --> 00:17:24.569 oldest clubs. I think it's 101 years old right 00:17:24.569 --> 00:17:28.009 now. It used to be, or it was for a very long 00:17:28.009 --> 00:17:31.319 time, a graduate student club. And the advisor 00:17:31.319 --> 00:17:34.019 for it asked me to sort of go through the process 00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:36.900 of making it an undergraduate club, because there's 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:38.640 a lot of interest from undergraduate students. 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.779 So that was one of the big goals I had for freshman 00:17:43.779 --> 00:17:46.039 year. And so I did that. And that was a number 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:51.259 of undergraduate members. And then a separate 00:17:51.259 --> 00:17:54.400 thing that I joined was the Space Systems Design 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:59.019 Studio. And I joined Project Violet, which is 00:17:59.019 --> 00:18:02.140 a nano satellite, so approximately 0 .5 meters 00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:05.140 cubed. So significantly larger than your normal 00:18:05.140 --> 00:18:10.220 CubeSat. And we couldn't use any CubeSat hardware, 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:12.700 which is significantly cheaper than pretty much 00:18:12.700 --> 00:18:15.619 any other satellite hardware you could get. So 00:18:15.619 --> 00:18:20.039 all of the PCBs are in -house. So we do have 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:23.819 a couple COTS components. But primarily, COTS 00:18:23.819 --> 00:18:26.579 is a four -letter acronym. It means commercial 00:18:26.579 --> 00:18:30.559 off the shelf. And so we have a couple of components, 00:18:31.200 --> 00:18:33.420 like a gyroscope that we use, a magnetometer, 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:35.440 and then the spectrometer, which is why it's 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.920 actually called Violet. We wanted to look at 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:41.799 the upper Earth atmosphere, basically viewing 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:44.319 the sun through the top layer of our atmosphere. 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.779 But the primary goal of Violet was to be a technology 00:18:48.779 --> 00:18:52.539 demonstration of these new sort of miniaturized 00:18:52.539 --> 00:18:55.599 actuators called control moment gyroscopes. So 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:58.569 they're basically just The International Space 00:18:58.569 --> 00:19:02.789 Station uses these as well as a couple other 00:19:02.789 --> 00:19:05.890 telescope satellites. But that's the primary 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:08.250 goal is to demonstrate those as well as the algorithms, 00:19:08.549 --> 00:19:10.609 the steering algorithms. So that's attitude control 00:19:10.609 --> 00:19:14.670 systems mission, pretty much. And so basically 00:19:14.670 --> 00:19:18.430 what we do is just slew the satellite in our, 00:19:18.430 --> 00:19:20.789 in low Earth orbit and demonstrate these steering 00:19:20.789 --> 00:19:22.589 laws, their efficiencies, and then get the data 00:19:22.589 --> 00:19:25.789 down to ground. So that's the basis of Violet. 00:19:26.230 --> 00:19:28.990 And so I joined Violet as the lead of telemetry 00:19:28.990 --> 00:19:30.950 and command. So basically I had to deal with 00:19:30.950 --> 00:19:35.130 all RF communication, all the radio communication. 00:19:36.289 --> 00:19:39.809 And so I sort of joined those two clubs, WCXM 00:19:39.809 --> 00:19:42.450 and Violet, in an effort to get a ground station, 00:19:42.569 --> 00:19:45.190 a satellite ground station developed. So that 00:19:45.190 --> 00:19:49.109 happened. So now we have a wonderful azimuth 00:19:49.109 --> 00:19:52.329 elevation rotator system on the top of Barton 00:19:52.329 --> 00:19:57.500 Hall. on Cornell campus. We also have all of 00:19:57.500 --> 00:19:59.380 the peripheral equipment that would be required, 00:19:59.500 --> 00:20:03.339 so we do all the satellite com through a TS -2000. 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.079 But I've been remaining kind of hands -off on 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:11.160 that part. I gave the ground station lead his 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:13.339 responsibilities, let him do all that stuff. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:15.579 And so this semester I sort of moved on from 00:20:15.579 --> 00:20:18.309 my telemetry and command position. I've been 00:20:18.309 --> 00:20:21.309 doing a lot of power work and other electronics 00:20:21.309 --> 00:20:23.369 debugging. I'm really a huge electronics guy 00:20:23.369 --> 00:20:27.289 in general, so I wanted to sort of get some more 00:20:27.289 --> 00:20:31.450 experience with other stuff like a custom PCB 00:20:31.450 --> 00:20:37.349 fab debugging and just in general the electronics 00:20:37.349 --> 00:20:39.670 that might go in a satellite. So this semester 00:20:39.670 --> 00:20:44.529 I worked a lot on the photovoltaic system, charging 00:20:44.529 --> 00:20:48.220 system, state of charge algorithm. inhibit system, 00:20:48.460 --> 00:20:50.740 which pretty much means when we want to turn 00:20:50.740 --> 00:20:55.539 on the satellite, use these lodging relays. And 00:20:55.539 --> 00:20:58.660 a bunch of other power systems. That's been my 00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:01.400 main focus for the last two semesters. I've also 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:05.440 been doing a ton of telemetry, so a lot of the 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:08.500 RF stuff was sort of finished and good when I 00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:12.420 came in, but there were a lot of packet structure 00:21:12.420 --> 00:21:14.160 issues, so I worked on a lot of debugging with 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.480 that. A lot of CRC problems, checksum, like whenever 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:22.279 you send a packet, you need to basically do a 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.619 checksum or just check that the packet is real 00:21:25.619 --> 00:21:29.660 and okay. So I did a lot of that debugging. But 00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:31.900 I've been kind of hopping around subsystems. 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:37.039 So our team is made of like 11 different subsystems. 00:21:37.220 --> 00:21:39.579 So we know structures, CDH, which is command 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:44.779 and data handling, attitude control, power. TNC 00:21:44.779 --> 00:21:46.839 telemetry and command and a couple other ones 00:21:46.839 --> 00:21:49.720 and So most of my work has been on power telemetry 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:51.799 command and I've just recently gotten really 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.819 into attitude control systems And that's sort 00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:57.759 of my new my new obsession right now in terms 00:21:57.759 --> 00:22:02.359 of electronics is is control systems But yeah, 00:22:02.420 --> 00:22:06.059 I'm really in love with spacecraft and so I found 00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:08.539 a great way to kind of connect those two amateur 00:22:08.539 --> 00:22:11.119 radio and spacecraft and so now I'm just sort 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.460 of taken off, if you will, and sort of exploring 00:22:14.460 --> 00:22:18.859 the whole realm of technology and space. And 00:22:18.859 --> 00:22:20.920 it's really a beautiful thing. And I think that 00:22:20.920 --> 00:22:25.380 there's going to be a huge explosion of sort 00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:28.359 of space exploration in the next couple years. 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:31.460 Everything's getting cheaper now, as you might 00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:35.339 see with launch vehicles, and especially the 00:22:35.339 --> 00:22:38.160 Falcon 9, being able to be returned. That pretty 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:44.410 much lobs off $30 million straight off the launch 00:22:44.410 --> 00:22:47.670 cost. And that's a pretty astounding thing. So 00:22:47.670 --> 00:22:51.869 I think more youngsters that are into ham radio 00:22:51.869 --> 00:22:54.809 will have the chance to get into space just since 00:22:54.809 --> 00:22:57.690 it's getting cheaper and cheaper. And a lot of 00:22:57.690 --> 00:23:00.730 schools are doing CubeSat programs now, and a 00:23:00.730 --> 00:23:03.609 lot of space competitions, they're hosting them. 00:23:04.470 --> 00:23:07.369 So if anybody's interested, they can email me 00:23:07.369 --> 00:23:10.349 and see. Uh, I don't know, just ask about opportunities, 00:23:10.849 --> 00:23:13.890 but, um, yeah, certainly space has been kind 00:23:13.890 --> 00:23:18.170 of my biggest or my, my highest obsession. Um, 00:23:18.349 --> 00:23:21.410 that leads us right into the next thing. So, 00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:24.509 uh, last summer you were able to land an internship 00:23:24.509 --> 00:23:29.450 with, uh, SpaceX and, um, I actually got to visit 00:23:29.450 --> 00:23:31.650 you for a short time down there at Cape Canaveral. 00:23:31.970 --> 00:23:34.170 So tell us a little bit about, uh, what you did 00:23:34.170 --> 00:23:37.549 down at Cape Canaveral and then. what you're 00:23:37.549 --> 00:23:40.910 getting ready to do here in a few days for this 00:23:40.910 --> 00:23:45.390 summer? Certainly. So with all the work that 00:23:45.390 --> 00:23:49.529 I sort of did on Violet, I sort of grabbed attention 00:23:49.529 --> 00:23:54.569 of a recruiter and landed an interview. And so 00:23:54.569 --> 00:23:56.390 the first interview actually was in headquarters 00:23:56.390 --> 00:23:58.890 and it was for a co -op, which means I had to 00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:01.049 take off a semester. And I ended up just turning 00:24:01.049 --> 00:24:04.130 that down because I was unable to do that early 00:24:04.130 --> 00:24:07.509 on in my education. I did a second interview 00:24:07.509 --> 00:24:09.190 for Cape Canaveral, and that's one of their other 00:24:09.190 --> 00:24:12.289 sites, which of course they do most of their 00:24:12.289 --> 00:24:15.450 launches from. They have one launch site in Vandenberg, 00:24:15.849 --> 00:24:19.809 but primarily SLC 40, Space Launch Complex 40 00:24:19.809 --> 00:24:24.069 in Cape Canaveral. And so I got hired as a launch 00:24:24.069 --> 00:24:30.970 intern among 17 other kids, and my more specific 00:24:30.970 --> 00:24:35.109 job was instrumentation and range interns. So 00:24:35.109 --> 00:24:37.990 I pretty much worked on a lot of the instrumentation, 00:24:38.809 --> 00:24:42.150 all the electronics underneath the bay. I actually 00:24:42.150 --> 00:24:46.890 worked on SLC -39A, which is complex 39A, which 00:24:46.890 --> 00:24:51.250 is where all the Apollo missions launched from 00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:53.410 and roughly half of the shuttle missions launched 00:24:53.410 --> 00:24:56.430 from. NASA just leased it to SpaceX for their 00:24:56.430 --> 00:24:59.910 new Falcon Heavy vehicle. The launch pad will 00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:04.079 also launch Falcon 9s, but it was primarily developed 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.079 for Falcon Heavy. So I worked on a lot of the 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:09.819 electronic systems down there, a couple different 00:25:09.819 --> 00:25:13.700 RF systems, but yeah, a lot of data acquisition, 00:25:14.119 --> 00:25:17.339 instrumentation, stuff like that. And I had a 00:25:17.339 --> 00:25:21.259 specific project I worked on, which was really, 00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:24.240 really fun. I won't talk too much about it, might 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:27.140 be a little boring for you. But it was really 00:25:27.140 --> 00:25:29.680 great working there. I had a lot of one -on -one 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:34.599 time with my boss, who's a manager of electrical 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:38.220 engineering on the pad. A really great guy. And 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:40.920 the people there are just really passionate and 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:43.859 really knowledgeable. So that was an incredibly 00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:47.579 fun internship. I got to drive around the Air 00:25:47.579 --> 00:25:50.119 Force base all day. I got to look at other launch 00:25:50.119 --> 00:25:54.400 pads. I got to watch rocket launches. And so 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:56.920 it was a great experience. Very, very fun summer. 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:01.220 And picked up surfing. Oh, yeah, absolutely. 00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:05.059 Yeah. A lot of a lot of people there go surfing. 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.839 And so I just sort of hopped on. I got a I rented 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:13.200 a board for a while. Incredibly fun. But I was 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.299 surfing on Cocoa Beach, which is sort of the 00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:18.980 best place if you want a shark bite. And so there 00:26:18.980 --> 00:26:22.660 were I had a couple of experiences where I would 00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:24.880 see sharks just a couple feet away from me. Uh, 00:26:24.940 --> 00:26:27.460 one time I had a little, a baby shark, uh, hit 00:26:27.460 --> 00:26:30.779 me in the leg, just swam right into me. Uh, but 00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:32.500 you know, it was a, it was a really great experience. 00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:35.079 A lot of fun surfing, totally recommend. Great, 00:26:35.079 --> 00:26:38.240 great, great way to get out there. So. All right. 00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:40.819 Well, now you're on the way to the other end 00:26:40.819 --> 00:26:43.700 of the continent. So tell us what's, what's coming 00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:48.390 up this summer. Absolutely. So, um, I was in 00:26:48.390 --> 00:26:50.990 Cape Canaveral last summer, and this summer I 00:26:50.990 --> 00:26:54.990 interviewed and got a position in Hawthorne, 00:26:54.990 --> 00:26:59.470 California, which is basically right outside 00:26:59.470 --> 00:27:03.369 Los Angeles. It's the headquarters of SpaceX, 00:27:03.569 --> 00:27:07.730 and so I will be working as an avionics intern 00:27:07.730 --> 00:27:12.490 on Dragon. Dragon is the spacecraft that goes 00:27:12.490 --> 00:27:15.390 on top of the Falcon 9. It does all of the CRS, 00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:18.819 the cargo resupply missions. to the International 00:27:18.819 --> 00:27:25.259 Space Station and in 2017 and 2018 that the Dragon 00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:28.680 capsule will be flying our astronauts, our very 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:30.640 own astronauts. We don't have to use the Russians 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.980 anymore for that and so there's a great deal 00:27:33.980 --> 00:27:37.440 of patriotism there and so I'm very excited to 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:39.839 be working on that. I can't really give any more 00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.859 specifics mostly because I don't really have 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:46.539 any more specifics myself but as far as I know 00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:49.880 right now avionics and the dragon vehicle so 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:52.200 I'm incredibly excited I've never been to California 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:54.880 before hopefully I'll get some more surfing in 00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:58.099 maybe get a little sun but it should be a fun 00:27:58.099 --> 00:28:00.740 summer should be a very fun one well it sounds 00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:04.140 like a great opportunity for you and I couldn't 00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:07.759 be more proud that you're able to do that hey 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.119 it's time for us to take our final break but 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.579 we'll be back with more with Patrick Lassendreau 00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:16.720 KC9 UUS right after this message from the HamStation. 00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:19.559 This episode of HamTalk Live is brought to you 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:23.000 by the HamStation. 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So give us a call. 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:03.500 on Skype at HamTalk Live or if Skype isn't your 00:30:03.500 --> 00:30:11.420 thing call 812 -NET -HAM -1 that's 812 -638 -4261 00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:14.559 and give us a call and we'll take your questions 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:21.519 here with Patrick Lassendre KC9 UUS and we'll 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.920 wait just a second here I saw that there was 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:28.450 a Dexter Moore I believe that was calling So 00:30:28.450 --> 00:30:31.950 hopefully he'll give us a call back here. We 00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:34.029 couldn't do that in the middle of the show. Yep, 00:30:34.069 --> 00:30:38.029 there he is. So we'll connect with Dexter here. 00:30:38.049 --> 00:30:48.329 How are you? Are you there? Good. Thank you for 00:30:48.329 --> 00:30:56.650 giving us call. On the live feed is very low. 00:30:58.109 --> 00:31:02.410 Yes, I'm here your audio on the live feed was 00:31:02.410 --> 00:31:09.450 very low Yeah, Patrick Patrick was fine your 00:31:09.450 --> 00:31:14.730 audio was low Well, okay Looks okay on this end. 00:31:14.730 --> 00:31:17.809 So I will dig around and try to find what's going 00:31:17.809 --> 00:31:21.690 on with that I don't see anything here, but we'll 00:31:21.690 --> 00:31:25.269 give it a try. Did you have a question for for 00:31:25.269 --> 00:31:30.000 Patrick? No, I didn't. Just letting you know. 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:32.819 Oh, okay. Very good. Well, thanks for letting 00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:36.119 me know. I'll check into that and see what's 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:42.000 going on with that. Thank you very much. Well, 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.599 thank you. I'm going to send off now. All right, 00:31:44.640 --> 00:31:52.039 take care. 812 Natham 1. 812 Natham 1 or 812 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:56.890 -638 -4261. The number to call. or you can Skype 00:31:56.890 --> 00:32:01.130 us at HamTalk Live and we'll see if we get another 00:32:01.130 --> 00:32:09.009 call here. Let's see here. Oh, we have a message 00:32:09.009 --> 00:32:13.009 here from Troy. You remember Troy from Illinois? 00:32:13.130 --> 00:32:16.289 Good to hear you, he says. Troy Simpson over 00:32:16.289 --> 00:32:21.369 at Glenn Raymond School over in Illinois. Patrick, 00:32:21.789 --> 00:32:26.799 what would you tell aspiring young hams out there 00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:30.380 that are working on, you know, still finishing 00:32:30.380 --> 00:32:34.480 up middle school, high school, maybe even elementary 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:40.900 school. What would you say to those hams that 00:32:40.900 --> 00:32:46.039 are looking to study more beyond high school? 00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:52.220 All right, so definitely, you know, go and get 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:55.099 your license. try and go as high as possible. 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:59.000 I think that sort of will bring you as much knowledge, 00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:00.740 especially if you're passionate about the hobby. 00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:04.539 I would also definitely study electronics on 00:33:04.539 --> 00:33:08.759 your own time because, you know, hand radio is 00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:12.299 inherently tied to electronics. Everything is 00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:17.720 electrical. It's, you know, based purely on, 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:23.130 you know, LCs and... I would just study electronics 00:33:23.130 --> 00:33:27.309 and even start building. A great book, a great 00:33:27.309 --> 00:33:30.130 couple of series of books that got me into the 00:33:30.130 --> 00:33:33.529 hobby were the Forrest Mims engineered notebooks. 00:33:34.130 --> 00:33:38.710 They have tons of examples of 555 circuits and 00:33:38.710 --> 00:33:41.970 op -amp circuits that really teach you the basics 00:33:41.970 --> 00:33:46.970 of electronics. You know in analog circuitry, 00:33:47.230 --> 00:33:50.549 so I would you know get passionate about it What 00:33:50.549 --> 00:33:53.009 maybe watch some YouTube videos of people in 00:33:53.009 --> 00:33:56.470 their homebrew projects? That's definitely something 00:33:56.470 --> 00:33:59.670 that motivated me is like watching people Kind 00:33:59.670 --> 00:34:01.930 of build something from nothing and then have 00:34:01.930 --> 00:34:05.509 it You know work and do a really cool thing so 00:34:05.509 --> 00:34:08.510 building a transmitter is amazing You know you 00:34:08.510 --> 00:34:11.590 you just have like this pile of of like carbon 00:34:11.590 --> 00:34:15.320 and silicon And then you solder it together and 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.500 you end up creating something that can talk to 00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:19.099 somebody halfway across the world. I mean, that's 00:34:19.099 --> 00:34:21.880 amazing. And you really don't feel that until 00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.460 you've sort of done it. And so until you've built 00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:27.179 it. And once you've built it, it's kind of the 00:34:27.179 --> 00:34:28.980 most amazing feeling. I think there's a great 00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:31.860 Nikola Tesla quote that says there's nothing 00:34:31.860 --> 00:34:34.300 greater than the feeling that or there's nothing 00:34:34.300 --> 00:34:37.519 greater than the inventor who sees a creation 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:41.360 of their mind come to be. I'm super paraphrasing, 00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:45.739 but. Look that quote up to just you know the 00:34:45.739 --> 00:34:49.840 internet is a great A great resource pretty much 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:51.599 everything you could possibly want to learn is 00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:55.139 on the internet And so that's what I would say 00:34:55.139 --> 00:34:57.980 is just kind of teach yourself. I mean if you're 00:34:57.980 --> 00:35:00.179 passionate about something There's there should 00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:02.260 be no barriers there for you, and you should 00:35:02.260 --> 00:35:06.179 try and break them down And so that's you know 00:35:06.179 --> 00:35:09.039 that's what I did in high school is I sort of 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:12.539 Asked for a soldering iron for my birthday I 00:35:12.539 --> 00:35:15.460 got that and I started taking apart stuff. Just 00:35:15.460 --> 00:35:18.760 even televisions, old cathode ray tube stuff. 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.860 You've got to be really careful because sometimes 00:35:20.860 --> 00:35:24.079 they have some capacitance that will shock you. 00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:28.119 But take apart stuff safely and then use those 00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.920 parts in like the TV or the microwave or whatever 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.840 it might be to build a project and then just 00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:37.039 build one thing and then you'll really realize 00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:41.019 how cool it is. But beyond that, I mean, you 00:35:41.019 --> 00:35:43.250 know. I guess try to educate yourself as much 00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:45.469 as possible. And it's great, you know, go to 00:35:45.469 --> 00:35:48.630 a school, you know, to learn just at college 00:35:48.630 --> 00:35:52.030 or a couple year program. Definitely teach you 00:35:52.030 --> 00:35:55.570 a ton. And I think understanding and being able 00:35:55.570 --> 00:35:58.170 to build and design electronics is an incredibly 00:35:58.170 --> 00:36:02.650 valuable tool. And we see that its value is skyrocketing 00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:07.469 as time goes on. So. Do you have an opportunity 00:36:07.469 --> 00:36:13.050 to go to several summer programs that Had some 00:36:13.050 --> 00:36:18.550 pretty cool science to them. Oh Yeah, so there's 00:36:18.550 --> 00:36:22.269 a ton of there are a ton of summer programs that 00:36:22.269 --> 00:36:24.710 are totally free So I'm gonna give a shout out 00:36:24.710 --> 00:36:26.670 to the people at Michigan State University There's 00:36:26.670 --> 00:36:29.690 a physics of atomic nuclei pan program. Look 00:36:29.690 --> 00:36:32.449 it up totally free program You basically will 00:36:32.449 --> 00:36:35.550 learn about atomic nuclei and the nucleosynthesis. 00:36:35.550 --> 00:36:41.519 So pretty much how a star will generate nuclei 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.719 up to iron. And then once it explodes, there's 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:47.000 enough activation energy to create other nuclei. 00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:50.300 It's a great program that teaches kids a lot 00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:53.619 about physics. And in the process, you learn 00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:55.679 a little bit about programming and other stuff 00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:58.739 totally free week at Michigan State University. 00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:03.679 Great programs like that will push you into the 00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:07.869 STEM fields. And so I, there's a couple other 00:37:07.869 --> 00:37:11.070 stuff. Uh, I did a program at like Brown university 00:37:11.070 --> 00:37:14.389 on Nikola Tesla. I'm kind of have a thing. He's 00:37:14.389 --> 00:37:17.869 a, he's one of my favorite, um, scientists. Um, 00:37:17.909 --> 00:37:19.510 but this, you know, plenty of is a, you know, 00:37:19.590 --> 00:37:21.469 a plethora of programs that you can look into 00:37:21.469 --> 00:37:23.929 that are, you know, free and highly educational 00:37:23.929 --> 00:37:26.090 and just great things to do. So I would look 00:37:26.090 --> 00:37:28.989 into those. And did you see the Tesla bumper 00:37:28.989 --> 00:37:33.400 stickers from, from Hamvention? Yes, Maria just 00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:36.079 gave me one. It's a yellow bumper sticker. I 00:37:36.079 --> 00:37:40.260 think it's ICOM from ICOM. It has his face, Nikola 00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:44.380 Tesla's face, and it says Tesla was right. I 00:37:44.380 --> 00:37:49.019 assume alternating current. But yeah, wonderful, 00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:59.019 wonderful stickers. A question about the Young 00:37:59.019 --> 00:38:02.440 Ham of the Year Award or any of these things 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:06.940 that Patrick's talking about or SpaceX and his 00:38:06.940 --> 00:38:09.460 internship there, why give us a call? We've got 00:38:09.460 --> 00:38:13.840 just time for maybe one call. So if you want 00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:16.559 to get that in, now's the time to do that. 812 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:23.960 -NATAM -1 or Skype HamTalk Live. So tell us just 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:29.389 quickly about your classes. How are classes going 00:38:29.389 --> 00:38:32.929 for you and how's Ham Radio helped you out in 00:38:32.929 --> 00:38:38.510 those? Certainly. So this semester I took a couple 00:38:38.510 --> 00:38:41.449 electrical engineering classes, one of them being 00:38:41.449 --> 00:38:43.670 Introduction to Circuits and the other being 00:38:43.670 --> 00:38:47.230 Introduction to Digital Logic. So Introduction 00:38:47.230 --> 00:38:51.130 to Circuits was sort of just, I don't want to 00:38:51.130 --> 00:38:52.829 be like mean or anything, but it was kind of 00:38:52.829 --> 00:38:57.650 a cakewalk. And so definitely learning All of 00:38:57.650 --> 00:39:00.829 the material that leads up to the extra class 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:03.829 significantly helped. And if you know a little 00:39:03.829 --> 00:39:06.030 bit about math, you can understand Laplace transforms. 00:39:07.650 --> 00:39:10.289 And Laplace transforms are incredibly valuable 00:39:10.289 --> 00:39:13.730 when it comes into circuit analysis, and especially 00:39:13.730 --> 00:39:17.130 sinusoidal circuit, steady state analysis. So 00:39:17.130 --> 00:39:20.469 that was a fun class. Ham Radio has certainly 00:39:20.469 --> 00:39:23.159 helped me with that one. I really... did not 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:26.340 struggle with that at all. Digital logic, that's 00:39:26.340 --> 00:39:29.719 sort of more, you know, computer architecture 00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:34.519 stuff. I didn't get a whole lot of exposure to 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:36.679 that from ham radio. Obviously I knew all the 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.619 gates, I knew how they all work. I understood 00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:42.440 like sort of the basic of flip -flops, a little 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.980 bit of memory, stuff like that. But there's a 00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:49.280 lot of stuff that I didn't know, like, you know, 00:39:49.579 --> 00:39:54.079 doing... time analysis, CPI, like cycles per 00:39:54.079 --> 00:39:56.880 instruction, ALUs, I didn't really know anything 00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:59.320 about that, and in general, like the computer 00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:03.119 architecture of a processor. Didn't know too 00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:05.860 much, but Hammer Day still helped out with the 00:40:05.860 --> 00:40:08.420 sort of basics of that class, you know, inverters 00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:13.480 and NAND gates, all that sort of stuff. And so, 00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:18.260 next semester, I will be taking signals. ECE 00:40:18.260 --> 00:40:21.219 class. ECE is the program at Cornell. It's at 00:40:21.219 --> 00:40:24.000 electrical and computer engineering. And I'll 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.639 be also taking an ECE design class, which pretty 00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:31.639 much needs to design a line following robot that 00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:36.179 utilizes an FPGA, which is a field programmable 00:40:36.179 --> 00:40:38.480 gate array, which is definitely something I would 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:40.559 advise youngsters to get into. It's an incredible 00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:44.260 technology, as well as microcontroller architecture. 00:40:45.190 --> 00:40:47.550 And one of my friends actually included sort 00:40:47.550 --> 00:40:50.670 of an RF chipset in that as well. So that'll 00:40:50.670 --> 00:40:52.769 be a fun class. I'll get to just really do a 00:40:52.769 --> 00:40:56.170 lot of design work, be creative. I'll also be 00:40:56.170 --> 00:40:59.730 taking a couple mechanical and airspace engineering 00:40:59.730 --> 00:41:03.369 classes, one of them being Introduction to Spaceflight 00:41:03.369 --> 00:41:05.829 Mechanics, which will be really cool. It's basically 00:41:05.829 --> 00:41:09.130 celestial mechanics, understanding orbits, Hohmann 00:41:09.130 --> 00:41:11.809 transfers, and different things like that. And 00:41:11.809 --> 00:41:13.750 then I'm also taking something that I'm really 00:41:13.750 --> 00:41:17.429 excited about called feedback control methods. 00:41:18.269 --> 00:41:21.010 And so that sort of dials into my my interest 00:41:21.010 --> 00:41:25.869 in attitude control and guidance. So for spacecraft, 00:41:26.110 --> 00:41:29.329 basically that it is an intellectual engineering 00:41:29.329 --> 00:41:33.510 class. It sort of teaches you how to build controllers 00:41:33.510 --> 00:41:36.829 with with feedback mechanisms. And so you can 00:41:36.829 --> 00:41:39.630 use like op amps to build PID controllers, which 00:41:39.630 --> 00:41:42.500 is proportional and integral derivative controller. 00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:46.039 And so I would also advise kids to get into that 00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:47.719 kind of stuff, because that's really cool. That 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.599 goes into robotics. That goes into pretty much 00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:53.940 everything in the future. So that's going to 00:41:53.940 --> 00:41:56.719 be a really, really fun class. And I'm excited 00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:59.739 for that. And then, of course, there'll be cooler 00:41:59.739 --> 00:42:01.699 classes in the future beyond that. But that's 00:42:01.699 --> 00:42:05.019 what I have for now. Well Patrick, thank you 00:42:05.019 --> 00:42:08.480 so much for sharing everything and telling us 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.860 getting us caught up on what you've been up to 00:42:11.860 --> 00:42:15.880 and how ham radio ties into all that and Thanks 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:19.380 for taking some time out of your few days off 00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:23.320 here between school and work to To let everybody 00:42:23.320 --> 00:42:25.920 know about it Certainly. Thanks for having me 00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.820 on mr. Epp All right. Thank you. That's Patrick 00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:32.699 Lassandra KC9 UUS the 2013 amateur radio news 00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:38.400 line Young Ham of the Year, among other awards 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.280 and recognitions. Thanks so much for being here, 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.980 and that's a wrap for this week's HamTalk Live. 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.300 I'd like to thank my guest Patrick and all the 00:42:48.300 --> 00:42:50.579 callers and listeners out there in cyberspace, 00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:53.760 and I invite you all back next Thursday night 00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:58.429 at 9 p .m. Eastern when Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB, 00:42:58.610 --> 00:43:01.250 will be here. He's the kit guy, and he'll be 00:43:01.250 --> 00:43:03.829 here to catch us up on what's going on in kit 00:43:03.829 --> 00:43:06.610 building. And for a list of all of our upcoming 00:43:06.610 --> 00:43:10.690 guests, visit HamTalkLive .com. So for now, this 00:43:10.690 --> 00:43:15.750 is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7375, and may the 00:43:15.750 --> 00:43:37.820 good DX be yours. Thanks for watching!