[GCARC] Watch 11 year old KJ7NLL describe his 10-foot helical antenna to talk to the ISS

[Tony Starr]

Can we recruit him? We need some new members that will be around for a
while!

Tony_K3TS

On Nov 4, 2022 10:52 AM, "Jon Pearce" <jon at pearcefamily.org> wrote:

> This kid is amazing.  He got his Technician license at 8, his General at 9
> and is now using microwave-design software to spec out the 2 meter and 23
> cm helical antennas that he’ll rotate with home-build rotators using C code
> that he wrote himself to track the satellites.  He built a mock-up of the
> whole system using Lego blocks and did a presentation to the local ham club
> which he recorded and then edited for his own YouTube channel. His goal is
> to talk to the ISS, and as someone who as actually done that (yeah, I had
> to throw that in…) I know that a 10-foot helical isn’t needed – but then we
> used commercial antennas and tracking software (although we did use a
> 3D-printed rotator) – but this kid has built EVERYTHING himself. He even
> has a video of how he used his mon’s toaster oven to make a printed circuit
> board.
>
> Go watch the presentation that he did for his local ham club and see how
> poised and knowledgeable he is. One attendee asked when he was going to
> apply to MIT, to which he replied that he’s only 11 so it may be too soon.
>
> There are three linked articles with a lot of embedded videos so be sure
> to catch everything. Pretty amazing kid!
>
>     https://www.eejournal.com/article/o-m-gosh-ive-been-zeked-part-1/
>
> 73 de Jon WB2MNF
>
>
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