November 5, 2020 Club Meeting
Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 7:00 PM Via Zoom. Login sent via email or upon request.
Program: Antennas: Array of Light—book review, Allan Taylor, K7GT
Tom Schiller, N6BT, founder of Force 12 Antennas, and very experienced in practical antennas write a book entitled ‘Antennas: Array of Light’ that provides an intuitive understanding of antennas and contains the lessons he learned over the years. Allan Taylor will review the book highlighting key aspects of how antennas work.
Biography: Allan Taylor, K7GT is a contester, high speed CW operator, and former club president.
The November club meeting will be conducted via Zoom. The logon details for the meeting will be sent via email, and on the (private) club email reflector. We will also send the login upon request.
Announced in the November 2020 issue of The Repeater.
October 1, 2020 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 7:00 PM Via Zoom. Login sent via email or upon request.
Program: TBD
The October club meeting will be conducted via Zoom. The logon details for the meeting will be sent via email, and on the (private) club email reflector. We will also send the login upon request.
The last meeting we had was in March, since COVID-19 closed everything down afterwards. Our normal meeting location (Medford PD) has closed to all community activities for the time being.
Right now the club does not have a confirmed program. Please consider presenting a short report on any projects you have been working on, contests you’ve entered, DXing and other activities, and any Zoom Ham Conferences you’ve attended, etc.
Announced in the October 2020 issue of The Repeater.
June 4, 2020 Club Meeting - CANCELLED
Thursday, June 4, 2020 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: MEETING CANCELLED
The June club meeting has been cancelled due to the Corona Virus COVID-19. The Medford Police Department has suspended the use of the Community Room due to COVID-19, so we wouldn’t have a place to meet anyway.
The club officers will make a decision about future meetings probably towards the end of the summer. This will have to be balanced against our state’s county-by-county restart rules, and the availability of meeting space that the host will allow use of. Essentially, we have little clue what the world will look like in 3 months.
Announced in the June 2020 issue of The Repeater.
May 7, 2020 Club Meeting - CANCELLED
Thursday, May 7, 2020 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: MEETING CANCELLED
The May club meeting has been cancelled due to the Corona Virus COVID-19. The club officers will make a decision about the June meeting in about a month.
Announced in the May 2020 issue of The Repeater.
April 2, 2020 Club Meeting - CANCELLED
The April club meeting has been cancelled due to the Corona Virus COVID-19. Club officers will re-evaluate the sitaution next month.
Announced in the April 2020 issue of The Repeater.
February 6, 2020 Club Meeting
Thursday Feb 6 2020, 7:00 PM
Medford Police Department Community Room
219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: nanoVNA
Scott Cummings and Mike Bach will present on the new, very low cost (about $50) Vector Network Analyzer that recently became available. The unit will be demonstrated and compared to a (very expensive) precision VNA. The applications and use of the VNA, as well as how to purchase the unit will be discussed.
Scott is the club Vice President and avid Dxer and contester. Mike is club treasurer, and has an enormous wealth of RF experience.
Announced in the February 2020 issue of The Repeater.
March 5, 2020 Club Meeting
Thursday Mar 5 2020, 7:00 PM
Medford Police Department Community Room
219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Programs:
- 1917 Ham Station
- Favorite DX Tools
Mini-program
- 1917 Ham Station
Mini program: Overview of an amateur radio station, circa 1917 in Lud Sibley’s possession. It’s, of course, a spark rig. The owner was a recipient of the Navy order requiring amateurs to take down their antennas and lock up their gear when we entered WW I. (The inheritors of the material had the letter but didn’t pass it along.) The gear is a small spark coil, fixed ceramic-based spark gap, big “oscillation transformer,” capacitor made up from 8 x 10 photo plates, slide tuning coil, and vintage headphones.
Biography: Lud Sibley, KB2EVN is a long time club member, historian, and president of the Vacuum Tube collectors association.
Main program
- My Favorite DX tools.
Program: A collection of DXtools—clusters, propagation analysis, and other tools related to finding and working that elusive and rare DX station.
Biography: Scott Cummings, NA7OM is the club vice president, DXer, and contester.
Announced in the March 2020 issue of The Repeater.
January 2, 2020 Club Meeting
Thursday, January 2, 2020 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Using the GQRX Linux SDR display program on the Raspberry Pi 4. Are we there yet?, John Armstrong, KF7UMK
John will discuss the installation of GQRX on the Raspberry PI 4 computer. GQRX is an SDR interface program that will allow your RPI4 to control, process signals, listen, and display information from various different Software Defined Radios (SDRs). There will also be a demonstration using an RTL dongle as the receiver.
GQRX is an AM, FM and Single Side Band (SSB) software defined receiver implemented using GNU Radio and the Qt4 GUI toolkit. As a result it supports the Ettus USRP devices as well as OSMO SDR compatible radios (quite a few).
Biography: John Armstrong, KF7UMK is club secretary. He was instrumental in bringing HSMM / AREDN to the Rogue Valley, and enjoys computers and ham radio.
Announced in the January 2020 issue of The Repeater.
December 7, 2019 Club Meeting
Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 6:30 PM N5EG QTH, 3950 Southview Ter., Medford, OR
Program: Holiday Pot Luck Dinner
The December meeting is the club’s annual holiday Pot-Luck dinner. This is a time to socialize, eat, and talk about ham radio in general.
We will have a pot-luck dinner starting at 6:30 PM. Suggested items to bring are organized by last name (to reduce overlap on items). If you have your heart set on bringing something else instead, please do !
- A through F: Appetizer or finger food
- G through M: Hot dish, vegetables, or bread
- N through Z: Desert, fruit, or beverage
Announced in the December 2019 issue of The Repeater.
November 7, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Tangerine SDR, Tom McDermott, N5EG
Tangerine SDR is a cooperative project between the HAMSCI amateur science project and TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio). TAPR is developing hardware for a science package to be used in ionospheric research that will be aided by the HAMSCI project. This is a citizen-science initiative to deploy numerous low-cost science packages in order to improve data collection for scientists to study ionospheric physics.
Recently this project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. This instrument has been nicknamed the ‘Space Weather Station’. The Principle Investigators are from University of Scranton, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack observatory.
The hardware is planned to consist of a dual-channel 0.1-30 Mhz SDR receiver, FPGA board for signal processing, a single board computer for control and local data storage, and a 3-axis magnetometer. Scientists will be able to trigger and capture data from these space weather stations over a wide geographic area, and store annotated data in central servers. The program will cover some key aspects of the hardware, and some project objectives.
Biography: Tom McDermott, N5EG is club newsletter editor. He is active in the system engineering and analysis of the Tangerine SDR equipment, and is designing the dual-channel receiver unit.
At the November meeting we need to nominate and elect the four officers for 2020. Three current office holders have agreed to run again for their respective offices (Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice President). At this point however we do not have anyone who has agreed to run for President.
Announced in the November 2019 issue of The Repeater.
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