Upcoming Meetings
Thursday July 9, 7:30 PM, Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA Bill Fenn, N4TS, will talk about the transition to Digital Television and describe the ATSC digital television transmission format. Bill will demonstrate how to dissect an off-air transport signal using a Tektronix analyzer.
Recent Meetings
Thursday June 18, 7:30 PM, Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA Hal Feinstein, WB3KDU, made a presentation on optical fiber communications.
Thursday, April 9, 7:30 PM, Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA Greg LeSage, N6LYU returned to talk about lasers. Topics were chirped pulse amplification, photoemission, and laser scattering from relativistic charged particle beams.
Thursday, March 12, 7:30 PM, Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA Greg LeSage, N6LYU spoke on RF powered particle accelerators, how and why large RF systems are engineered for these massive machines. Greg showed a number of components used.
Upcoming Events
June 27-28, ARRL Field Day: Meg and Frank Gentges will operate the VHF/UHF station at the Loudoun Amateur Radio Group (LARG) Field Day site. Please let Frank know if you wish to participate (fgentges@mindspring.com). See: http://www.k4lrg.org/ and http://www.arrl.org/contests/announcements/fd/
July 19, Hamfest and Computer Fest: Baltimore Radio Amateur TV Society (BRATS), Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD, http://www.bratsatv.org
August 2, Berryville Hamfest, Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club: Clark County Fairgrounds, Business Rte 7, Berryville, VA, http://www.svarc.us/hamfest
September 25-27, ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference, Chicago: The deadline for papers is July 31, 2009. Please mail submissions to Maty Weinberg at ARRL HQ, 225 Main St, Newington, CT 06111 or email to maty@arrl.org.