[DARARepeater] B Road Thursday Evening

[Charles E Kaiser]

Since, we don't have internet in the old classroom, and we had so many that came last Thursday, many had to sit or stand in the radio room. We will not be having Thursday Evening Classes till we can be in the new classroom and everything is working. Charles - KD8JZR



List of topics and presenters, They are not in any particular order.

Crimp Coax Fitting - Glenn

Stacking Antenna, Spacing - Reuben 6-20-2013 and another date.

Antenna Analyzer - Steve Reed to be announced

Satellite Antenna - 
Rotor Control Modification (Black Box) - Tom Schenck

SDR - Stan 1-31-2013 - Part 1 of 4

How to DX - 

Proper Grounding - Glenn 

Tour of Channel 16 tower - Fred Stone

D-Star - Al, Joe, Charles 

Group Suggestion - things to build:

1.       Frequency Generator
2.       60 MHZ Frequency Counter
3.       Build your own Oscilloscope
4.       Digital (Digi) Interface kits (Computer sound card to Radio interface)
5.       APRS I-Gate
6.       Raspberry PI projects
7.       Mobile heads up display for D-STAR (George Ewing’s contribution! J) Sorry George, just couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a good laugh!
8.       Satellite projects (CubeSat , etc.)
9.       PIC Controller Projects
10.   Antenna Projects (Build Antennas; Satellite, J-Pole, Colinear, Walking Stick, 5/8 wave 70 cm and 2 m Antenna’s, etc.)
11.   Power Supplies (Build from scratch and how to modify your Computer Power Supplies for bench use)
12.   Software Defined Radios (SDR’s) (modifying USB TV Dongles, build your own SDR kits, etc.)
13.   Antenna Tuner (Build your own, theory of operation)
14.   HF Triplexer (June, 2010 QST) also good DIY HF beam article (Sept, 2002 QST)
15.   Alternative Power Systems (Solar, Wind, Alternative Fuels Generator (Propane, Natural Gas, Alcohol, Wood Gasifier, Etc.) Proper conditioning of alternative power systems (UPS’s, power conditioners, Etc.), Energy Storage
16.   2 Meter pre amp kits
17.   Rig Runner Power Pole’s
18.   DIY Rotors, Controllers, Satellite trackers, etc.
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