Meeting

December 2024 Holiday Party

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We had our annual Holiday Party on December 12 2024 at 11:30 AM PST in A3/2226 MMC and on Teams. The food was catered from the cafeteria. We had Freshly Roasted Prime Rib of Beef Rubbed with Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper, Herbs, Topped with Cabernet Au Jus and Accompanied by a Horseradish Cream Sauce, Chive Mashed Potatoes, Balsamic Baby Vegetables, Kale Salad: Kale, Candied Walnuts, Apple, Dried Cranberries, and Parmesan Cheese with Balsamic Dressing, Fresh Baked Rolls and Butter, and Iced Tea and some desserts brought by club members.

Slides of the Party

Video Recording of the Party

See it here

Audio Recording of the Party

Results

We now have a new secretary for the club Jared Blanchard! Congratulations Jared!

We also have Raffle Prize Winners:

$300Mike Gorlick
$200Wayne Fenner
$100Sarah Seguin
$50Phil Martzen
$50Victor Lin
$50Kyle Logue
$50Dan Plaster

Happy Holidays!

HF Net

December 2024 HF Net Report

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We had our December HF Net at 8:30 AM PST on Wednesday December 4. Operators were:

  • Kirk Crawford – KK6KC – A3 Shack
  • Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW – Vero Beach FL
  • Doug McNulty – KM4GC – Leesburg VA
  • Al Carlson – NA1N – Laytonsville MD

Reports

RX/TXKirkBobAlDoug
Kirk––1-11-1
Bob1-1–2-63-3
Al–5-5–3-3
Doug–5-7––
14.234 MHz
RX/TXKirkBobAlDoug
Kirk–––5-5
Bob––––
Al––––
Doug5-9–––
28.412MHz
RX/TXKirkBobAlDoug
Kirk––2-15-5
Bob––––
Al3-3––3-3
Doug5-3–––
24.947 MHz

See this table for the definition of our signal reports.

HF Net

November 2024 HF Net

We had our HF Net for November on 11/6 at 8:30 AM PST.

David Ping WB6DP joined me, Kirk Crawford KK6KC in the A3 Shack, and we had Doug McNulty KM4GC in Leesburg VA and Bob Lanahan KK6WYW in Vero Beach FL. Kevin Kirio was in the teams meeting as an observer.

We tried several bands. Here are the results:

14.270 MHz – No Contact

RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-3–
Doug–––
Bob–––
18.125 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-33-4
Doug––5-9
Bob2-4––
21.317 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-4–
Doug5-7–
Bob––
24.964 MHz
RX/TXKirkDougBob
Kirk–5-8–
Doug5-3–
Bob––
28.640 MHz
RX/TXDougBob
Doug–5-2 to 5-7
Bob5-2 to 5-7–
14.288 MHz (Lots of Fading)

So we had workable coast to coast communication on multiple bands. The propagation was rapidly changing during the contacts. See you next month!

Meeting

October 2024 HAM Club Meeting

We had our October HAM Club meeting on Thursday October 31, 2024 at 11:30 AM on Teams and in A3/1607A. Many folks attended and we had a presentation on RTTY with real teletype machines by Harold Hallikainen W6IWI. Here are my meeting slides:

Kirk’s Slides

Recording of the Meeting

This is the recording. Note this only works from within Aerospace. For those outside of the Aerospace network here is another recording of the same presentation given at the Long Island CW Club.

HF Net

October 2024 HF Net Report

We had our October 2024 HF net at 8:30 AM PDT on October 2. We had pretty good propagation today, especially on 20 between LA and Tucson which is highly unusual.

Operators

  • Kirk Crawford- KK6KC – El Segundo, CA – AGO A3 Shack
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF – Tucson, AZ – Raytheon HAM Club Shack
  • Al Carlson – NA1N – Laytonsville, MD – Home Shack

20 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-5–
Tom5-55-9
Kirk–20 Over
14.275 MHz

17 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-33-3
Tom5-5–
Kirk2-3–
18.145 MHz

15 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-93-3
Tom5-95-5
Kirk3-35-5
21.300 MHz

10 Meters

RX\TXAlTomKirk
Al5-6–
Tom5-75-5
Kirk–4-5
28.593 MHz

Antenna, Meeting

VSWR & Stuff with Nano VNA – Sep 2024

Our club meeting was on September 25, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time. We had several members on Teams and quite a few in the room in A3/2226 MMC.

Kirk’s Slides

The main focus of the meeting was the presentation by Carl Foster, KB7AZ about VSWR and VNAs.

Carl’s Slides

VSWR and VNAs no VideoDownload

Go here for his slides with the video.

Recording of the Meeting

Here is a link to the recording of the meeting. Note: this will only work inside the Aerospace Network.

Smith Chart

Here is a link to the Smith Chart that Carl had us print out.

HF Net

September HF Net

The HF Net began at 8:30 AM PDT with Kirk – KK6KC, Tom -K7DF, Doug-KM4GC and Stephanie-KN6RNB. We had time to do 20 Meters and 15 Meters. Here are the results:

20M – 14.312 MHz

RX/TXTomKirkDougStephanie
Tom–5-55-7
Kirk3-5–2-55-9
Doug5-75-3–
Stephanie5-6–
14.312

15M – 21.346 MHz

RX/TXTomKirkDougStephanie
Tom–5-9
Kirk2-4–5-9
Doug5-93-2–
Stephanie5-9–
21.346

HF Net

August 2024 HF Net

Our August HF Net occurred on Wednesday August 14 at 8:30 AM Pacific Time. We had the following operators in attendance:

Kirk

KK6KC – A3 Shack

Stephanie

KN6RNB – El Segundo

Doug

KM4GC – Michigan

Tom

K7DF- Raytheon Shack, Tucson AZ

We tried to communicate on 20 Meters and 15 Meters. Here are our results:

RX/TXDougKirkTomStephanie
Doug3-3
Kirk2-15-9
Tom
Stephanie5-5
20 meters (14.261 MHz)
RX/TXDougKirkStephanie
Doug5-7
Kirk2-35-7
Stephanie5-9
15 meters (21.276 MHz)

Tom had to leave the meeting after we did 20 meters.

73 until next month! – Kirk KK6KC

AEA Amateur Radio Club