[QCWA] What have you been up to lately?

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Bravo, Jeff! Nice kickoff!
You employed a wonderful idea on a terrific platform.
Our local ARC has this very successful icebreaker at the top of our agenda every month after the Pledge Of Allegiance and introduction of guests.
You often have to wait your turn to share! I hope others will contribute their interesting recent, (or not so recent) experiences with us here. The reflector is quiet enough for everyone to chime in.
Let's hear from you, QCWA Members!
Tell us what you're up to!

Pete The Greek / NL7XM
QCWA National Director
Mem.Chap.17 Allentown


On May 28, 2013, at 7:27 AM, Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net> wrote:

> Since the first of this year, I've had an ongoing project.
> Part one was an antenna multi-coupler to allow several receivers
> to share a singe antenna.
> The second part was coming up with a wide band antenna that
> doesn't need tuning, so that I could listen to several receivers
> at the same time tuned to different frequencies.
> 
> For part one, a Maxim MAX4022ESG 14 pin SOIC chip turned out
> to work quite well. With a small handful of parts, I have a 50 ohm
> input and four 50 ohm outputs with 0 dB overall gain.
> The bandwidth on that is close to 0.1 to 150 MHz.
> 
> For part two, I have been investigating the terminated folded dipole.
> Being on a bit of a budget, this means "make your own" rather than
> buy one for $300 or up.
> 
> I have something in the air currently, but it's not optimized yet. But
> the results are promising.
> 
> Jeff-1.0
> wa6fwi
>