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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)

Field Day, Meeting

May 2022 Meeting

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

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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

2022-05Download

Recording of the Meeting

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

Meeting, Shack

October 2021 Meeting

Club Business

Our October club meeting was held on TEAMS and in A3/1607A. I was the only one in the room, but we had several club members on the TEAMS meeting. See below for the slides, a recording, and transcript of the meeting. If you missed it, try to be there next time!

2021-10 Meeting SlidesDownload

Meeting Recording

Transcript of October-HAM-Club-Meeting_2021-10-28Download
Field Day, Meeting

April 2021 Meeting

April Banner, Field Day Planning

Field Day Planning and D8 Roof Tour

See Recording here (Aerospace Only)

Meeting Slides

2021-04-Field-Day-PlanningDownload

Shack

80M Vertical Straightening

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Now Straighter 80M Vertical on the roof of D8

I met with Albert (KD6NSG) this morning on the top of D8 and we went over the antennas that we have there. We saw that the 80M vertical had drooped over quite a bit, and we were able to straighten it up a bit with an adjustment of the guy lines. It does look like there is a kink in it, but it should be better now. It may have also lost one of the rods in the top hat too.

We confirmed that in addition to the above, we have our big beam antenna, plus what looks like a EME setup. It is not hooked up anymore, but it has two long yagis on a Az/El mount and a third Bi Polarized yagi connected to the AZ portion. This may be able to be restored to service in the future.

There is another vertical that seems to be in good service, but the radials should be sorted out better. Based on the height, I suspect it is a 6 or 10M vertical.

73,

Kirk KK6KC

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

Field Day, Meeting, Shack

July 27, 2017 AEA Amateur Radio Club Meeting

AEA Amateur Radio Club meeting was held at 11:30 am on 7/27/17.  

Ten people were in attendance, two of whom joined at this meeting:

  • Teresa Moore AG6OD
  • Don Hall KK6DCX
  • Kirk Crawford KK6KC
  • Tom Essenpreis KB9ENS
  • Ryan Noguchi AI6DO
  • Victor Lin KK6RZO
  • Bob Lanahan KK6WYW
  • NEW MEMBER Susan McCormack K6SUZ
  • NEW MEMBER Wayne Wheeler  W6AHH
  • Joe Barger N6KK


 The meeting started with a report on this year’s Field Day and a discussion of what we should remember for next year.  Then we discussed the budget, including plans for upgrading the A2 shack HF radio and antenna.  Finally, HamCon is coming to Torrance this fall, September 15-17.  Besides interesting talks, there will be an opportunity for an added cost to tour the radio room on the battleship Iowa.  More information on all of these topics is available in the powerpoint presentation, which can be found on the club web site.

The meeting ended with a raffle.  All members including the new members received a free raffle ticket.  Victor won a Pixie transceiver, Don got the heat shrink tubing, Kirk got a helping hands tool, and Susan got the tape measure.

Wayne volunteered to do a presentation on his project to rebuild a 1928 HF radio.  He is on the calendar for the October meeting.

Teresa Moore

July 2017 Meeting Slides

Meeting

January 2017 Meeting Minutes

Audio of the meeting:

Audio Player

    Members in attendance:

  • Kirk KK6KC
  • Teresa AG6OD
  • Bob KK6WYW


14 members have paid dues for 2017

Holiday reports:

Kirk talked about using APRS during his recent RV trip.  His system involved a little Bluetooth APRS tracker device, a radio, and an old phone running APRSdroid.

Tom did a SOTA hike and got at least 4 contacts.

Bob studied for his General license and takes the exam on Saturday.  He may do a SOTA hike after the exam.

New Business:

Bob needs a computer for the A2 shack.  Kirk will look into getting a redeployed system from the Aerospace loan pool.

Some of the radios in the A2 shack have issues.  One doesn’t tune and another doesn’t receive well but seems to transmit OK using a 10 m horizontal dipole on the penthouse roof.  We may want to put an inverted V dipole on the penthouse.

Antenna survey for the A2 shack will take place Thursday Feb 2 at 1 pm for antenna planning.

    Upcoming Events:

  • 1/28-29 Winter Field Day
  • 1/28  Montana QSO party
  • 1/28 TRW swap meet
  • 2/4 Palm Springs Hamfest
  • 2/4 Vermont QSO party
  • 2/17-18 Yuma Hamfest
  • 6/24-25 Field Day (Kirk will be out of town)

Raffle:
1st prize to Bob who picked the 40 m transceiver kit
2nd prize to Kirk who picked the heat shrink tubing set
3rd prize to Teresa  who got the diagonal cutters