[HCARC] March's Meeting and Program

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A reminder that the Club has moved it's monthly meeting back to the 
first Thursday of the month at 7 PM.  We will meet on ZOOM (Information 
below)

Our March program we will have Steve Cerwin (WA5FRS) to talk about 
VHF/UHF antennas.

Steve is the author of "Radio Propagation and Antennas: A 
non-mathematical treatment of radio and antennas."  This is from the bio 
of his book.
Radio has held a fascination for me since 1963 when at age 12 I became 
licensed as WA5FRF and entered the wonderful world of Amateur Radio. 
Just the word "radio" holds wonder for me even now though I have been an 
active practitioner of radio art for over a half-century. Antennas and 
the way radio works have been at the forefront of this fascination. I 
will never forget the wondrous sounds emanating from an army surplus 
receiver when I hooked it up to the first antenna I ever made: a 
40-meter dipole in the backyard of my parent's house. Nor will I ever 
forget the 1-inch long arc that jumped from the open end of the coax to 
my finger one day. Could radio signals really be that strong or was it 
static electricity from the thunderstorm that was brewing nearby? I 
would not know until sometime later, but it certainly sparked an 
increased interest in radio and antennas. It was that early interest in 
ham radio that kindled my career in science. I spent most of my career 
at Southwest Research Institute, achieving the level of Institute 
Scientist and obtaining eleven patents. My formal education is as a 
physicist, though I have been designing and building antennas and RF 
systems throughout my professional career. Additional interests include 
flying full scale and radio controlled aircraft, and scuba diving.

https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Propagation-Antennas-non-mathematical-treatment/dp/1728320348 


Topic: Monthly HCARC Meeting
Time: Mar 4, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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