Category Archives: 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.

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

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.

VarAC HF Chat Reinvented – February 2024 Mtg

On February 28 2024 11:30 AM PDT we had a meeting. Our presentation was on VarAC a new HF Chat mode. Doug McNulty (KM4GC) and Bob Lanahan (KK6WYW) gave the talk. I presented a few slides at the beginning about our A3 Antenna status and the EOC trailer status.

Kirk’s Slides

Doug and Bob’s Slides

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VarAC Slides

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Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here available to Aerospace Employees

Holiday Party 2023

At 11:30 AM PST on December 14, 2023 we had our annual Holiday Party in A3/2226 MMC and on Teams. We had a catered luncheon of Prime Rib from the Aerospace Cafeteria and fantastic desserts shared by members of the club. We looked at pictures from the last year and had a good discussion. No one volunteered to run for the open secretary spot. We also had our raffle draw. See you next year!

Recording of the Meeting

Recording is here. Note this only works inside of Aerospace

Meeting Slides