[NLRS] Aurora'26 presentations

[Doug Buhrman]

Thank you Jon and Rob!

Doug   K0DSP

On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM Rob Jahnke via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Thanks Jon,
> All of the Optical Presentations that Warren and I have done plus a lot of
> references are at
> sites.google.com/view/k0xl.
> Rob - K0XL / K0THZ
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM Jon Platt via NLRS <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Following up on a few requests for a copy of the Aurora'26 presentations,
>> no, our current website will not support PPT presentations.  We have had
>> offers to host such presentations by club members (thanks!), but for now
>> the decision is to simply put those who may be so interested to directly
>> contact the presenter(s).   I know that all the presenters email address
>> can be found on QRZ, or just ask me direct.   Here was the afternoon
>> program:
>>
>> Afternoon Session: Technical Program
>>
>> 1:00 pm NLRS Business Meeting
>> 1:40 pm Building the 5760 MHz W1GHZ Transverter by Charlie Betz, N0AKC
>> 2:05 pm Some New Adventures in EME by Charlie Betz, N0AKC
>> 2:30 pm Optical communications Update by Rob Jahnke, K0XL
>> 3:15 pm The Excitement of 10 GHz Rainscatter While Portable by Bruce
>> Richardson, W9FZ
>> 3:45 pm AI-Assisted 222 MHz Yagi-Uda Design by James “JB” Anderson, K8OS
>> 4:30 pm The 222.057 MHz W0ZQ/B Using the RFZero Board by John Platt, W0ZQ
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Jon
>> W0ZQ
>>
>> No, the website will not support PPT slide show presentations. The best
>> we could do is create a folder where people could download the PPTs and
>> view them on their own computers. Before we consider doing something like
>> that, you would need to get permission from the presenters to do this.
>> Also, this folder would have to be temporary, since PPTs and accompanying
>> sound files (like those with Bruce's PPT) are very large files, and we only
>> have 1 Gb of site storage space to work with. You could consider converting
>> all the PPT to PDF, whose file size would be significantly smaller, but you
>> cannot incorporate sound files into PDFs. Again, it would have to be a
>> temporary thing due to web storage space considerations.
>>
>> I think the better solution would be to have those wanting the PPTs
>> contact the presenter directly by email and have the presenter send their
>> PPTs directly to those requesting them. Also, I think Rob has a website of
>> his own about all his optical work...I think he makes a lot of his stuff
>> downloadable from there.
>>
>>
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