[DARARepeater] B Road Thursday Evening

Mon Mar 11 21:45:18 EDT 2013

"This Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 7 P.M."

Topic:

Lighting Protection - Proper Grounding 

by: Glenn - W8AK	

“B” Road Thursday Evening 

DARA CLUB HOUSE:  6619 BELLEFONTAINE RD. HUBER HEIGHTS, OH.

Time: 7 p.m.

Charles - KD8JZR

kd8jzr at arrl.net

List of topics and presenters, They are not in any particular order.
Crimp Coax Fitting - Glenn

Stacking Antenna, Spacing - Reuben

Antenna Analyzer - Steve Reed

Satellite Antenna - 

Rotor Control Modification (Black Box) - Tom Schenck

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

How to DX - 

Lighting protection - proper grounding - Glenn 3-14-2013

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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