MicroHAMS general meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. unless otherwise specified.  Meetings are held in conference room 2200 in building 44, 146.58 simplex is monitored for anybody who requires assistance finding the site or access to the building.  Club meetings are open to club members, those interested in joining the club (see club membership policy), and guests of club members.  Members of the general ham community may also attend a club meeting by sending email to the club at least seven days prior to the meeting.  Space for guests is limited.

For more information or to suggest meeting ideas, contact Dennis-K7DEM.  This list is subject to change so check back prior to the meeting date to verify the topic for the meeting for the current month.

July 20, 2009	Topic: TBD
June 21, 2009	Topic: The final Field Day prep
May 18, 2009	Topic: Field Day prep

We've had lots of great speakers in the past.  Here's a list of previous presenters and the topics that they spoke on:

April 20, 2009	Topic: Steve-N8GNJ will present the final presentation in the series on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G and a overview of mesh networking.
March 16, 2010	Topic: Kenny-KU7M present the second part in the series on hacking the WRT54G
February 16, 2009	Dennis-K7DEN gave the first of three presentations on hacking the Linksys WRT54G router.
January 19, 2010	Scott-N7SS gave an updated presentation on VHF contesting
December 17, 2009	No Meeting - Happy Holiday's!
November 17, 2009	Topic: N7SS gave us an overview of the new 'rules' for emergency service employees and ham radio. KU7M also discussed plans for the 2010 Digital Conference.
October 20, 2009	Topic: Building cool things with the Arduino board by KD7VBS
September 15, 2009	WA7NWP gave an overview of some of the interesting talks from the 2009 NWAPRS Summer Gathering and high lights on his thoughts for ARPS 3.0. Many of the links he mentioned during the talk are available here.
August 18, 2009	K7DEM showed a video from last years TAPR conference on building SatSuit1.
July 21, 2009	Field Day post mortem and huge list of upcoming events.
June 16, 2009	Review Field Day rules, discuss action items for Redmond ARES team and Microhams, watch City of Redmond mayor declare June Ham Radio month.
May 19, 2009	More Field Day 2009 prep work.
April 21, 2009	Introduced the new board and had lots of discussions about Field Day 2009
March 17, 2009	Prepared the digital conference packets and held elections for the board of directors.
February 17, 2009	Review status of the digital conference and watched a video from the 2008 TAPR developer conference.
January 20, 2009	Lynn - N7CFO gave a presentation on his experiences getting Winlink and Pactor3 running.
December 18, 2008	No Meeting - to close to the holidays
November 18, 2008	Adam - VA7OJ/AB7OJ spoke about his experiences managing several popular Ham radio online forums.
September 16, 2008	Scott-N7SS presented pictures from his tour of HAARP during his AK trip.
October 21, 2008	Marc-K9PET spoke about CasualDX.
August 19, 2008	Video on HF Digital Voice for Amateur Radio
July 15, 2008	Held a Field Day Postmortem with Redmond ARES club and discussed plans for next years Field Day
June 17, 2008	Met with the Redmond ARES club to prepare for a joint Field Day and reviewed the MicroHAMS equipment database
May 20, 2008	Mike-N6MZ gave an introduction to the clubs new service monitor
April 15, 2008	Presentation on portable antenna options by Joe-WO8J
March 18, 2008	Intro to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing by Dennis-K7DEN. The slides are available here.
February 19, 2008	Reviewed the status of the Microhams Digital Conference and hear a update from N7SS on Orlando Hamfest
January 15, 2008	We watched a couple short podcasts from AmateurTV about MFJ.
December 18, 2007	Duane Dougal-KE7MNA will give a brief update on the coordination activities between Microsoft Security, the Red Cross and various ARES groups.
November 20, 2007	Dick-K6KR brought in his brand new Elecraft K3 and gave a short talk about his experiences doing the construction and what it is like operating the rig.
October 16, 2007	"llya-KE7OPG talked about his recent adventure to the High Speed Telegraphy contest in Belgrade, Serbia."
September 18, 2007	"Mapping APRS Tracks with MapPoint by Kenny-KU7M, slide deck posted soon"
August 21, 2007	"Canceled regular August meeting. Met just for dinner in Redmond"
July 17, 2007	"Presentation and demo of the clubs news battery analyzer by Robin-W7YED"
June 18, 2007	"Field Day Prep"
May 15, 2007	Unknown.
April 17, 2007	We watched a DXPedition video.
March 20, 2007	"Bill showed off the wonders of NSLU2 with his talk on "Amateur applications for the Linksys NSLU2 device" by Bill-WA7NWP.
February 13, 2007	"Keep Your Lights On (and Stay on the Air!) Even When PSE Tries to Keep You QRT" -- how to equip your home with a generator and stay electric-code-legal by Mike-N6MZ." Which will always be remembered as the "Please don't burn down your house presentation".
January 16, 2007	Meeting was canceled due to the second Winter Storm of the season.
December 19, 2006	Meeting was canceled due to the Winter Storm.
November 21, 2006	Since the meeting lands in the same week as Thanksgiving, there will be no meeting in November.
October 17, 2006	Dennis-K7DEH gave a great presentation on the theory behind J-Pole antennas and construction details.
September 19, 2006	Kenny-KU7M is going to give a presentation about working the simple digital APRS satellites using a D7/D700.
August 15, 2006	Ray-N9JA talked about his experiences attending the large hamfest in South America and attending WRTC contest.
July 18, 2006	Art-N7CC spoke about his experiences building a complete Elecraft K2.
June 20, 2006	Very small turn out, probably due to the week before Field Day and the nice weather Seattle has been enjoying. The three people attended BS about random things and looked over a nice AMSAT presentation given at Dayton. Lots of unique shots of the SuitSat.
May 16, 2006	Watched the DVD of the World Radiosport Team Championship 2002.
April 18, 2006	New officers were annouced, see the April board meeting notes for details. Covered the details for reserving club Field Day equipment this year and the clubs new magazine subscriptions. Kenny-KU7M gave a presentation on using Winlink over VHF/UHF packet. The Powerpoint deck is available here.
March 21, 2006	Board elections took place. The new board members are Scott-N7SS, Art-N7CC, Mike-N6MZ, Robin-W7YED, Kenny-KU7M, Mark-N7WSU, Dennis-KD7PSV. Scott-N7SS gave a overview of the previous weekends Digital Winter Gathering. Mark-N7WSU also showed a video he created about the experiences of the N7OS 160m SSB contest crew. The video is available here.
February 21, 2006	Rather short regular business meeting this month. Mike-N6MZ gave a great talk on the using Winlink and Airmail for HF communication. The presentation is available here.
January 17, 2006	Had our second club auction and managed to sell everything! Thank you to everybody that took part. We also had a interesting presentation on how to locate and leverage the vanity call system by AE7Q. Check out his website!
December 20, 2005	Movie Nite! Mike N6MZ brought in a DVD on his DxPedition to Kergeulen Island.
November 15, 2005	Mike, K7MDL presented his SDR (Software Defined Radio) and its different options.
October 18, 2005	Something happen.
September 20, 2005	N6MZ spoke about his latest DXPedition adventure. The title of the talk is "In the Middle of Nowhere: FT5XO".
August 16, 2005	Mike-K7MDL gave a updated presentation on Radio Mobile.
July 19, 2005	Post Mortum for FD2005 and watched a interesting 1950's Bell Labs video on SWR and Impendence matches.
June 21, 2005	Voted on bylaw changes for family membership and ran though last minute items for Field Day 2005.
May 17, 2005	Walked through high level action items for Field Day by K7LOG. Presentation by N7CFO on his morse code keys and bugs.
April 19, 2005	Annoucement of new board and a presentation on Redmond ARES by Lt. Gordon of Redmond PD. Included a tour of the Redmond mobile CommCenter.
March 15, 2005	Offical board elections and presentation by N7SS on operating martime mobile for the 160m CW contest.
February 15, 2005	Great presentation on W7YED's experiences putting up an "expensive" tower.
January 18, 2005	Yearly treasury report, watched Icom video and presentation on putting up a tower by KU7M.
December 21, 2004	Meeting cancelled - same week as Christmas
November 16, 2004	Great talk by Lyle-KK7P on AO51.
October 19, 2004	Art-N7CC gave a overview of hardline coax and the special requirements when using it.
September 21, 2004	Held the first MicroHams auction and watch video about 3B9X DXpedition.
August 17, 2004	Viewed the very funny HamRadio music video and N6MZ gave a presentation and live demo for the LoTW.
July 20, 2004	Reviewed score for FD2004 and then covered the good/bad from this years Field Day.
June 15, 2004	Reviewed final plans for Field Day and operated KD7SLL's mock FD contest using the loaned IC-7800!
May 18, 2004	Field Day prep meeting. Mike-N6MZ presented the current antenna plans and reviewed the goals for this years event. Then we all watched a CQ Mag introduction movie on contesting.
April 20, 2004	Mike-K7MLD did a show and tell with his latest microwave project, a low cost 10Ghz transverter.
March 16, 2004	Andrew-G0IJI gave a talk about ham radio in the UK and his experiences operating from the other side of the Atlantic.
February 17, 2004	Dennis-KD7PSV discussed his experieneces with the ARRL online antenna course and the modeling tools used.
January 20, 2004	Formal nominations were held for the board of directors. The following people are currently running: Art-N7CC, Andreas-KU7T, Kenny-KU7M, Mike-K7MDL, Rosie-KD7SLL and Mike-N6MZ
December 16, 2003	Finally had necessary ballots to vote on proposed amendments, everything pass! Annouced N6MZ will be our Field Day Chairman this year. Had a great talk on laser communication by N7WLO.
November 18, 2003	Attempted to vote on proposed amendments again, still no luck. KU7T presented a break down of our 2003 Field Day score, compared with other clubs in WWA section. Discussed QRP/battery power for 2004, voted against it for now. Agreed to put one station on batteries for testing purposes.
October 21, 2003	Watched a movie on the VP8SSI South Sandwich Island DXpedition.
September 16, 2003	Update on new 40m band changes, 60m allocation and BPL, presented by Mike, N6MZ. Notes for the presentation available here.
August 19, 2003	Movie Night! - VK0IR Heard Island video, titled "Field Day 12,000 Miles Away", presented by Mike, N6MZ.
July 15, 2003	Field Day 2003 post mortem completed and Ward Silver, N0AX gave a great presentation on contesting. The handout is available here. NOTE: (10/03/03) I have also just uploaded a great video which Ward used in his presentation based on a request from N7WLO.
June 17, 2003	Final Field Day prep and FD contesting presentation from Mike, N6MZ.
May 20, 2003	Annouced the new Microhams club call, N7OS. Reviewed details for upcoming Field Day and got an update on Dayton.
April 15, 2003	Annual Field Day goal setting meeting. Reviewed FD2003 Feature specification.
March 18, 2003	Rick Beatty, NU7Z gave a great presentation on operating in the microwave bands. He also demo'd his 24G and 47G rigs. Here is a link to his slides.
February 18, 2003	Ray Novak, N9JA (Sales Manager for Icom) gave a presentation on their new D-Star radios, including their repeater system and mobile. The D-Star system is a 1.2G digital system, providing both voice and data channels.
January 21, 2003	Mike Mraz, N6MZ gave a great presentation on the XR0X Dxpedition.
December 10, 2002	Informal meeting, members brought in projects they built for show and tell. Also approved amendment to change meeting to third Tuesday of the month.
November 12, 2002	"Basics of Satellites" Mike (K7MDL) gave a presentation on working ham satellites; including the types of tracking software available, equipment needed and what the signals typically sound like. Here is a link to the presentation.
October 8, 2002	"Radio Mobile Seminar" Mike (K7MDL) gave us a demonstration of the Radio Mobile software, used to estimate RF coverage for a network of VHF stations.
September 10, 2002	"Meteor Scatter Digital Modes" Mike (K7MDL) talked about WSJT and other weak signal modes that are now gaining popularity. Here is a link to the presentation.
August 13, 2002	Informal meeting; no scheduled topic.
July 11, 2002	"Remote FT-817" Dan Van Hoy (K7DAN/VR2HF) came and showed us his remote FT-817 that he has running in Hong Kong.  Dan welcomes everyone to try out his receiver and listen to the action overseas.
June 11, 2002	"Field Day Planning - Part II"   This was our final planning meeting before Field Day.
May 14, 2002	"Field Day Planning - Part I"   We talked about logistical issues for Field Day this year.
April 9, 2002	"Field Day Goal Setting"   We met to talk about what our goals were for Field Day.
March 12, 2002	"SteppIR"   Mike Mertel (K7IR), John Mertel (WA7IR), and Jim Thomas (KD7NHL) from Fluidmotion came in and gave us a detailed technical talk on how their SteppIR antenna works.
February 12, 2002	"VHF contesting"   Kenny Richards and Mark Lium show us how to have fun while contesting.   Resource: Slides
January 8, 2002	"Miscellaneous"   We just hung out together and had fun, just like we always do. :-)
December 11, 2001	"Powerpoles"   N7CC gave an informal talk on Anderson Powerpole connectors.
November 13, 2001	"VHF contesting"   Scott Honaker talked to us about VHF contesting.
October 9, 2001	"Radio Direction Finding"   Scott Honaker gave a presentation on RDF antennas and techniques.
September 11, 2001	Due to the tragic events of September 11, our meeting was cancelled.
August 14, 2001	"Club Night at the Trailer"   In what's sure to be a popular event, we held our very first club night at the red trailer.
July 10, 2001	"Field Day 2001 - Post-mortem"   In classic Microsoft fashion, and true to his PM upbringing, Kenny Richards held a Field Day post-mortem to discuss all that we had learned at this year's Field Day.
June 12, 2001	"Field Day 2001"   We met to talk about what we were going to do for Field Day 2001.
May 8, 2001	We spent some time talking about club hats and jackets, then we convened in the parking lot for a little ATV fun.
April 10, 2001	We just hung out together on an informal basis to talk about what cool things our club members are doing with ham radio in their day-to-day lives.
March 13, 2001	"ARES Plan for the Microsoft Campus"   Todd Buiten, AEC for ARES, gave a general overview of the ARES plan for the Microsoft campus.   Resource: Slides
February 13, 2001	"The N6TJQ Campus Repeater System"   We talked about what people want to do with the campus repeater so that we can begin working on a new design.
January 9, 2001	"Antennas for Your Office"   Have you ever wondered if there's a better antenna for your HT that would fit in your office and provide great reception of the campus repeater?  Mark Lium presented the results of some experimenting that he's been doing to find the perfect antenna.   Resource: Slides
December 12, 2000	"Linking Amateur Repeaters with the World Wide Web"   Pete Policani (K7PP) Pete powered up his first repeater system in his garage in the fall of 1969.  At the time it was only the third repeater system in the entire state.  Today, the system has improved and now provides radio communications covering the State of Washington, Northern Oregon, parts of Idaho & Montana, Canada, and a Satellite Link to Honolulu, Hawaii.   Pete is heavily involved in the Internet Repeater Linking Project, linking repeaters all over the world using the Internet.
November 14, 2000	"TCP/IP and Ham Radio"   Steve Stroh, Digital Radio columnist for CQ Magazine, dropped in to talk about what local hams are doing with TCP/IP.   Resource: Slides
October 10, 2000	"Introduction to the King County EOC Support Team"   Gisli Olafsson (KD7FQA) has been an active volunteer for the KCEOC for quite some time now.  He will give us a presentation on the organization's mission, activities and volunteer opportunities.  The organization also serves as base camp support for the area's Search and Rescue (SAR) teams, providing communications during the more than 90 SAR activations each year.
September 12, 2000	"APRS Presentation"   Bob King (K7OFT), East Puget Sound APRS Coordinator, came with Bill Vodal (WA7NWP) to give us a talk about APRS.  We had a really cool demo of a portable APRS station that fit in an old ammo box.   Resources: Slides, TAPR, Bob King (K7OFT)
August 2000	The MicroHAMS club did not meet this month.
July 14, 2000	"The New Club Logo"   Along with recapping this year's Field Day activities, we also presented our new club logo.
June 2, 2000	"Field Day 2000"   Scott Honaker (N7WLO) laid out the plan for Field Day.
May 5, 2000	"A Tour of the New MicroHAMS Web Server"   An overview of the capabilities of our new web server.
April 7, 2000	"A History of Amateur Radio"   Harry (W7JWJ) and Mary (W7QGP) Lewis came and gave us an audio/visual presentation on the history of amateur radio.
March 3, 2000	"Alternative Power Sources"   Ralph Javins (N7KGA) brought examples of alternate power sources, plug standards for power, and an array of gender bending plugs and adapters.
February 4, 2000	"Pick the Board"   The club met to pick its first board members.
January 7, 2000	"The FCC's New Report & Order"   Todd Buiten gave a talk on the new licensing structure outlined in the latest FCC Report & Order.
December 3, 1999	"Name the Club"   At our second meeting we met to name our club.  After considering a number of entries we settled on naming ourselves the Microsoft Amateur Radio Club, or MARC for short.  (We would later change this name due to restrictions on the use of the name "Microsoft".)
November 5, 1999	"First Contact"   The MicroHAMS club met for the very first time.  We spent most of our time talking about organizational issues such as meeting times, club name, etc.  Our very first speaker was Rick Hodges (KB7TBF) who talked to us about how our members could participate in ARES.