Bunfight

There are two Bunfights per year that SUWS attends - these are events during which freshers are invited to stands belonging to societies to see which ones they would like to join. It is an important event for recruitment of new members.

The first bunfight is the SUSU bunfight, on the Wednesday in Freshers' Week. It involves all SUSU societies. The second one is the FPSE bunfight, on the Thursday in Freshers' Week. It involves only FPSE societies.

Generic Bunfight Notes

What to do

Bring tripod mast
Put demos in safe place (esp. discone)
Bring laptops with proper audio in/out
SUWS shirts for all members present

What not to do

Bring too many antennas

SUSU notes

What to do

Bring chairs
Bring whitetack for posters

What not to do

Upset H&S people (going up ladders)
Assume we'll have mains power

FPSE notes

What to do

HF demo station nearby?
Get Henry to upgrade kit to powerpoles

What we did in 2014

Demonstrate HF rig
- Data reception
RPi + webcam, transmitting images on SSTV
- Using VHF FM GPIO hax
- Receive signal using FT-817
Slideshow with contest pictures
Laptop for email capture
Static displays of other kit (see full list below)

What went well

We had lots of email sign ups (96 captured)
Bash script for email capture: simple but effective
Packed lunches: saves fighting through the crowds
Jubilee sports hall is cooler than Old sports hall
Morse's big battery had more than enough capacity
Morse's inverter was extremely helpful
Stepladder was useful to put stuff on
RPi SSTV demonstration was popular
Some HF reception possible from Mountbatten coffee room
- Don't want to transmit much, however, due to proximity of RF lab

Kit used

Quantity of netbooks.
Quantity of handhelds.

Morse

Prowhip
Big battery + fuses
Inverter
Powerpole box + cables

Graeme

2M yagi

Phil

Assorted batteries
5V power adapter for RPi

Henry

FT-817
Prowhip + long coax

Murray

RPi (with VHF FM SSTV demo)
Stepladder

Club kit

FT-920
Discone, Mag Loop, 5GHz dish
Old SOWN nodes
- Alix 2C (old), Meraki