All posts by kirkcrawford

President, AEA Amateur Radio Club

November 2022 Meeting – Show and Tell

Video Recording

Recording of the meeting. (Must be in the Aerospace Firewall to view)

Audio Recording

Meeting Audio

Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford
  • Albert Leong
  • Thomas Fagan
  • Ching Kong
  • Dan Plaster
  • James Clark
  • Jeff Deifik
  • Sarah Seguin
  • Stephanie Wong
  • Ryan Noguchi
  • Bob Lanahan

Kirk and Stephanie’s Slides

James Clark Slides

Daniel Plaster Slides

Doug McNulty Slides

Thomas Fagan’s On-The-Fly Slide

October 2022 HAM Club Meeting – SDR Radios – Karen Burnham

Meeting Announcement Slide

Meeting Recording

Here is a link to the meeting recording. (You must be inside the Aerospace network for this to work)

My Slides

Karen’s Slides (Low Cost SDR for EMC)

Links from the Chat

Choosing an Antenna – Sept. HAM Club Meeting

We had our September HAM Club meeting on 9/29/2022 at 11:30 AM.

Ed Hare W1RFI gave an excellent presentation on using antenna modeling software to select an antenna for a given situation. See the recording for that presentation.

Meeting Recording

I recorded the presentation and it is available here to Aerospace employees.

Other Slides

Attendees

  • Thomas J Fagan
  • D.B. Cole
  • Dean J Sklar
  • Hare, Ed, W1RFI
  • Eliana Nossa
  • Robert E Oberto
  • Kirk B Crawford
  • Blair Thompson
  • Victor S Lin
  • John M Les
  • Sarah A Seguin
  • Gary D Flinchbaugh
  • Richard Massey
  • Horace Lee
  • Stephanie Wong
  • Alex G Ellis
  • Daniel C Plaster
  • Vahe Avedissian
  • Ching S Kong
  • Christopher A Day
  • Richard Day
  • Bob Lanahan
  • Kelly Gov
  • Wayne Fenner
  • Steve Bayless

July 2022 HAM Club Meeting

We had our July AEA ARC meeting on July 28 at 11:30 AM Pacific time. It was in A3/2226 MMC and on TEAMS

We are looking for presentations for upcoming meetings. We have three slots to fill for this calendar year, August, September and October. We are thinking of a presentation from Sarah about Antennas and a presentation from the local ARRL section coordinator about ARRL. If you can present on a HAM radio related topic or know of someone who can, let me know.

Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford
  • Jim Nokes
  • Bob Oberto
  • Sarah Seguin
  • Thomas Fagan
  • Stephanie Wong
  • Andrew Lin
  • Scott Simpson
  • Ryan Noguchi
  • Daniel Plaster

Slides

Recording of the Meeting

(Only for Aerospace Employees)

June 2022 HAM Club Meeting – Field Day Results

We had our meeting for June 2022 on Thursday June 30 at 11:30 AM Pacific on TEAMS and in A3/2226 VTC.

See the recording here. Note this will only work for people inside Aerospace network.

Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Jason Bayonne
  • Judy Kerner
  • Stephanie Wong
  • Sarah Seguin
  • David Ping
  • Thomas Fagan
  • Victor Lin
  • David Cole
  • Daniel Plaster

An Additional Picture from Field Day

Lark Hadley FCC KA4A, Kirk KK6KC, Stephanie KN6RNB, Sophia KN4RST, and Sean

D8 Amplifier Circuit Installed

The new circuit and outlet has been installed for the new D8 Amplifier. It will be on the air soon.

D8 Amplifier Outlet (on the left) The other stuff is powered in the center.
  • This is a 240V 20A circuit because the amplifier takes 195-250 VAC, 50/60 Hz up to 20A supply voltage
  • The outlet for the old amp was on the South Wall and would require a extra long power cord. I had the outlet moved here so it is near the other outlets used by the station and won’t require a new power cord.

D8 Amplifier Unboxing

Today I brought the new Elecraft Amplifier to the D8 shack and took it out of the box.

New Amp on top of old Amp

its footprint is a bit smaller than the old amp, but it comes in two parts with the power supply as a separate unit.

Back of amps.

It has a 20 amp AC plug but different style than the old amp. I will have to have the electrician install a new receptacle. While I do that I will have it moved to the West wall since that will be behind the amp. The current receptacle is on the south wall and requires a longer cord.

Everything arrived with the package. Cables, manual etc.

73, Kirk

May 2022 Meeting

The May Meeting occurred on Thursday May 26 at 11:30 AM Pacific time.

May Meeting Header Image

Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford -KK6KC
  • Sophia Trissell -KN4RST
  • Sean Michel
  • Sarah Seguin – KE0WHI
  • Tom Fagan – K7DF
  • Kyle Logue – K6OF
  • David Cole
  • Ching Kong – KJ6QBI
  • Sherree Buckland
  • Stephanie Wong – KN6RNB
  • Bob Oberto
  • Bob Lanahan – KK6WYW

Meeting Slides

Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here. Note this will only work inside the Aerospace network.

April 2022 Meeting – Field Day Planning

Meeting started at 11:30 AM on April 28, 2022 in A3/1607A and on Teams.

Attendees were:

  • Kirk B Crawford KK6KC
  • Stephanie Wong KN6RNB
  • Thomas J Fagan K7DF
  • Brian Aris
  • Andrew Lin KM6TWS
  • Patrick Riley
  • Shane M Bruski
  • Daniel C Plaster KN6OJH
  • Lauren C Johnson
  • Sean Nichol
  • Jim Nokes KN6QQV
  • David Ping WB6DP

Presentation Slides

Recording of the meeting

(Only works inside Aerospace Network)