Upcoming Meetings
Thursday, June 14, 7:30 PM Dolley Madison Library, McLean: Richard O'Neil will make a presentation on How to Make a Crystal Set: 1) Circuits: - Antenna - Tapped Coil, Series Coil & Capacitor, Tuggle, 2) Variable Capacitors - SLF, SLC, Variants Insulation - Hard Rubber, Phenolic, Ceramic, Styrene, Teflon 3) Coils: High Q - Coil Form Materials, L/D Ratio, Wire Gauge, Wire AC Resistance, Wire Spacing, Litz Wire 4) Diodes - Mineral Crystals, Germanium Diodes, Schottky Diodes 5) Impedance Matching Transformer: Specs, Sources 6) Phones: Crystal, High Impedance Magnetic, Balanced Armature 7) DXing: What to Expect
Recent Meetings
Thursday, May 10 Members of the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club (MARC) Kevin Whipp, W3KDW, David W2LNX, and Vic WB2U, told us about their work experimenting with the Linksys WRT54GL, running HSMM-MESH™ software from http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/
Thursday, April 19 ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, reviewed the ITU 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference and the outlook for a new domestic allocation at 472-479 kHz.
Thursday, March 8 Terry McCarty, WA5NTI, provided a view of his automated his ham station with a PC to make working, logging, and QSLing DX stations easy.
Upcoming Events
May 18-20 Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH, Dayton Amateur Radio Association, AMRAD will be there.
June 10 Manassas Hamfest & Amateur Radio Show, Ole' Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club, http://www.w4ovh.org
June 23-24 ARRL Field Day http://www.arrl.org
August 5 2012, Berryville Hamfest, Berryville, VA, www.w4rkc.org/hamfest
September 21-23 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), Atlanta at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. July 31 is the paper submission deadline. Please send papers to Maty Weinberg, ARRL HQ by mail or e-mail maty@arrl.org.