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Meeting

September 2019 Meeting

The August AEA Amateur Radio Club (AGO) meeting took place Thursday, September 26, 2019 in A3/1607B (cafe). The meeting was in person and on Skype.

Meeting SlidesDownload
September Meeting Audio Recording

Attendees (in person):

  • -Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • -Ching Kong KJ6QBI
  • -Victor Lin AJ6LA
  • -Bob Lanahan KK6WYW
  • Skype Attendance:
  • -Tom Fagan
  • -Andrew Lin
  • -Victor Lin

Agenda/Notes:

  1. Kirk presented the meeting slides.
  2. Cert Exercise, 30 Oct
  3. Current activities and possible future presentation
    1. Bob: RF Dongle Presentation & NBEAMS
    2. Kirk: FT8 on Raspberry Pi
    3. Andrew: SDR GNU Radio
    4. Victor: Low Cost Vector Network Analyzer
    5. Tom: Stealth Antenna, EMI, HF CW, FT8, Giving lots of talks, grounding, bonding, lightning protection
  4. Holiday Party, Proud Bird, Wed, 11 Dec, 11 am. Ching will get the projector. Also need extension cord.

Meeting

Jan 2018 Mtg Minutes

Aerospace Radio club meeting, 25 Jan 2018
Room 1607B, 11:30-12:30

Attendance: Kirk Crawford, Teresa Moore, Joe Barger,
Tom Essenpreis, Don Hall, Steve Schmidt and Bob Lanahan

8 mins of meeting audio is available <click here>

Audio Player

I. Kirk (radio club president) made a presentation.
Here are Kirk’s charts 2018-01 Meeting Slides

Notes taken to supplement Kirk’s presentation.
1. New club members have on-line training available to them.
2. $5K is the club budget this year
3. Joe installed remote desktop in Radio Shack in D8, more on this            topic later.
4. Goal to have A2 antenna purchased this year.
5. Kirk asked if we need any purchases for field day. Discussed
options.
6. Kirk charts include ARRL Grid chase, good for FT8, he’s near
the top 1,000 chasers

II. Tom presented his briefing on Magnetic Loop Antenna
Here are the charts  Mag Loop – 26 Jan 2018

Notes taken to supplement Tom’s presentation.
1. Went thru his charts and excel spread-sheet
2. Tom’s briefing was very interactive, there were a lot of
questions, and overall it was a great presentation.
3. His capacitor is rated between 11-93 picofarads
4. His antenna tunes between 13 – 19 Mhz

III. Joe (radio club treasurer) presented his remote desktop set-up.
1. His surface was connected to the D8 shack computer, running
FT8, connected to the K3 radio.
2. He is using DxLab and remote desktop VPN.
3. Joe wants to get an internet controlled power strip, cost ranges
between $200 and $500.

Meeting photos
1. Tom and Don with Magnetic Loop Antenna

2. Joe and Kirk – remote connection

3. Joe’s remote connection running FT8