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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.

Antenna, Meeting, Shack

2023-09 Ham Club Meeting

On September 28, 2023 at 11:30 AM PDT we had our HAM Club Meeting in A3/2226MMC and on Teams. This time we watched a recording of how to make a QSO. We had 4 people in person and 11 on teams.

Kirk’s Slides

2023-09-How-to-QSODownload

A3 Antenna

Here is a link to the Gap Eagle Antenna we will be putting on top of A3.

Presentation

The main presentation was a video from Anthony Luscre K8ZT His slide deck is here with all the links.

Recording

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

Meeting

August 2023 Meeting

Saturday Afternoon Antenna Projects

We had our August meeting on Teams and in A3/1607A (Thanks Phil for hosting!) at 11:30 AM PDT 8/31/2023.

We had a discussion about the D8 Antenna status, our budget submission and a presentation on Saturday Afternoon Antenna Projects.

Attendees

  • Kirk Crawford
  • Len Yip
  • Thomas J Fagan
  • Daniel C Plaster
  • Al (NA1N) (Guest)
  • Kevin H Kirio
  • Lydia Zelk
  • KM4GC – Doug (Guest)
  • Robert E Oberto
  • Philip D Martzen
  • Victor Lin
  • James R Clark
  • Michael Bao
  • Bob Lanahan
  • Kirk D Madsen

Slides

2023-08-Saturda-Afternoon-Antenna-ProjectsDownload

Presentation

Here is a link to the meeting recording. Note this only works within the Aerospace Network.

Here is a link to the video on Vimeo

Meeting

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

2022-11Download

James Clark Slides

2022-Ham-Show-And-Tell-Jim-ClarkDownload

Daniel Plaster Slides

2022-11-Car-Power-Hookup-KN6OJHDownload

Doug McNulty Slides

2022-11-16-KM4GC-2022-ActivitiesDownload

Thomas Fagan’s On-The-Fly Slide

2022-11-17-AEA-W6AGO-club-meeting-antenna-discussion-Tom-K7DFDownload
Meeting

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

2022-09Download

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
Meeting

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

2022-07 SlidesDownload

Recording of the Meeting

(Only for Aerospace Employees)