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

[Charles Olinda]

Great find Jon! … 
This young man gets it, and the neat part is he has developed the many skills needed to achieve his goals, 
and Tony your right, “and be around for a while” … can you imagine what he will be able to achieve at age 35, 45, 55 ...

It seems like he is Happy, and that is key. 
And yes, Schools like  MIT or Stanford will help him grow to the next challenge … stay tuned!

Thanks for sharing this!

Charlie Olinda, N2SRQ








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> On Nov 4, 2022, at 12:55 PM, Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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