October presentation shows operations from DX locations

  This October Harv K2PI presented a pictorial of his DX travels from over 27 yrs. He discussed the challenges of operating from both common and rare DX locations. Harv covered some excellent information including his 7 steps for success when considering operating from abroad. To download and review Harv’s PPT presentation (4MB) click here.

August meeting covers Electrical Measurements of PL259 Connectors

John, kx4o, presented measurements made on several examples of ‘UHF’ (PL-259 and SO-239) connectors alongside SMA, N, BNC and TNC connectors. The above charts show the UHF connectors in Red, the other connectors in Cyan and a reference baseline in Black. A particular focus is the idea mismatch loss results from the connector’s deviation from …

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March meeting covers Microcontrollers

  At this months meeting Andy K1RA presented information on microcontrollers. The presentation covered these tiny computer devices and compared them to microprocessors, noted where they are used, popular models, vendors and kits and associated programming from both the hardware and software perspectives. Finally Tom KG3V, Eric W4EON and Andy K1RA each presented and demonstrated …

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