February 2, 2017 Club Meeting
Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Software Defined Radio (SDR) - From DC to Daylight, Tom McDermott, N5EG
This program was one of six presented at the SeaPac 2016 ham convention in Seaside, Oregon during the Friday all-day SDR forum organized by Jeremy, NH6Z. The Friday SDR forum was very heavily attended, and received good reviews. This presentation covers remote SDR radio considerations, SDR radio architectures, and looks at some available radios. The presentation covers HF, VHF, UHF and SHF SDR radios.
Announced in the February 2017 issue of The Repeater.
Meeting Notes
From the March 2017 issue of The Repeater.
February 2 2017 RVARC meeting called to order at 6:58PM by President Scott Cummings.
Visitor and new member: Patrick KD7MPA, a hack lab friend of John Armstrong.
The next VE session was announced. It will be held at FD district 5 HQ so of Phoenix Saturday 25 Feb.
Treasurer’s report: $4580.77 with a check returned uncashed still pending.
Tom N5EG asked how the club-donated HF radio was to be conveyed to the St Mary’s radio club.
Field Day plans were briefly discussed, lead by Mike Bach WB6FFC. He asks all members to consider and suggest where the 2017 FD effort might be located.
Bob Deuel K2GLO announced that there will be an auction of old radio equipment in support of the Holly theatre renovation project. Date is 25 Feb at 10th & Front St, Medford. Contact Jefferson Live for further information.
The business portion was adjourned at appx. 7:30 for coffee and cookies. (Thanks, Mike!)
The evening’s presentation was by Tom McDermott N5EG about SDR radios. The presentation was enjoyed by all present and is available at his web page: www.tapr.org/~n5eg. There are MANY links to other SDR information sites at the end of the presentation’s powerpoint file.
Submitted by Allan Taylor, K7GT 3 Feb 2017
