General Meeting Announcements
MicroHAMS member meetings are always held on the Third Tuesday of the month at 6 PM unless otherwise announced. Meetings are held at The Garage in Building 27. All members who are not currently badged employees (etc.) need an escort and can call on 146.580 simplex to ask for an escort as well as directions to the meeting location.
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 Secretary at least seven days prior to the meeting. Space for guests is limited.
NOTE: There is no visitor access from the parking garage.
MicroHAMS general meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. unless otherwise specified. Meetings are held in the 4th floor conference room in building 35. 146.58 simplex is monitored for anybody who requires assistance finding the site or access to the building.
NOTE: There is no visitor access from the parking garage.
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 Scott-KD7VBS. 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.
Upcoming Meetings
The agenda is subject to change based on any number of factors outside of the control of the MicroHAMs Board of Directors.
| September 18, 2018 |
WRTC: World Radiosport Team Championship
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October 16, 2018 |
LTspice – circuit simulation
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| November 20, 2018 | TBD |
Log of Past Meetings
We’ve had lots of great speakers in the past. Here’s a list of previous presenters and the topics that they spoke on:
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August 21, 2018 |
Topic: Bi-Annual dinner meeting. |
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July 17, 2018 |
3D Printing for Amateur Radio with N2EU |
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June 19, 2018 |
Antenna Modeling with EZNEC v6.0 (KK7TM) |
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May 15, 2018 |
VHF+ radiosport: Limited rover style – Darryl Holman, WW7D |
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April 10, 2018 |
Show and Tell |
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March 20, 2018 |
Scott N7SS – Radio Programming via Software (N7SS) and Chirp (N2EU) |
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February 17, 2018 |
The History of Coax with Michael Dinkelman N7WA |
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January 16, 2018 |
Programming Radios |
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December 19, 2017 |
Bi-Annual dinner meeting. |
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November 21, 2017 |
Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) with N7SS |
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October 17, 2017 |
Vertical Antennas Demystified |
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September 19, 2017 |
The Vacuum Tube Curve Tracer Dennis, W7PF |
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August 2017 |
Bi-Annual dinner meeting |
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July 18, 2017 |
Scott, N7SS, will review Radio Mobile VHF/UHF propagation modeling software. |
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June 20, 2017 |
Dayton Hamvention |
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May 6, 2017 |
Warren McPherson, President of Vetco Electronics |
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April 18, 2017 |
ELAD SDR Transceiver |
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March 21, 2017 |
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February 21, 2017 |
Scott, N7SS will review our plans for the upcoming Digital Conference. |
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January 17, 2017 |
Portable Radio Kits by Scott N7SS |
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December 13, 2016 |
Bi-Annual dinner meeting |
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November 15, 2016 |
N7SS Presentation on HAARP – High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program |
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October 18, 2016 |
SteppIR speaker and/or antenna demo |
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September 20, 2016 |
MicroHAMS & SDR-SIG Club Meeting Notes |
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August 16, 2016 |
Topic: Bi-Annual dinner meeting. |
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July 19, 2016 |
Show and Tell |
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June 21, 2016 |
Topic: Field Day Prep |
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May 17, 2016 |
Discussed holding Field Day at Snohomish DEM, Virtual Reality options and how could be used with Ham Radio and had a update on the MicroHAMS rotator project. |
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April 19, 2016 |
Held Board of Director elections and got a demo of the new Icom 7300 HF radio. Link to Meeting Notes |
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March 15, 2016 |
Prep for MicroHAMS Digital Conference. Link to meeting notes |
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February 16, 2016 |
Kenny KU7M – Buster & AMBEserver (Slides) Peter K4PNG – Report of First SDR-SIG Meeting, Link to meeting notes |
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January 19, 2016 |
DXpedition to Navassa 2015 by N6MZ. |
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December 15, 2015 |
Bi-Annual dinner meeting. |
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November 17, 2015 |
Open discussion on SDR and all the options available today. Covered the creation of a local SIG by John-W7FU to discuss SDR efforts. |
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October 20, 2015 |
Bart-AE7Q gave an update on the HamWAN effort, including showing pictures of a recent activity to bring a new node online. |
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September 15, 2015 |
Bill-WA7NWP talked about building a WSPR beacon with a Raspberry Pi, plus showed a segment of the Amateur Logic PodCast discussing using Raspberry Pi’s in ham radio. |
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August 18, 2015 |
Bi-Annual Dinner Only Meeting, we met at the Canyons Restaurant in Redmond and had a great time. |
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July 21, 2015 |
Marshall Denny, AI4CM will talk about EXOR (extremely opportunistic routing protocol) |
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June 16, 2015 |
Topic: Field Day at Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island; Logging software presentation by Michael Schulz, K5TRI; and Show and Tell. |
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May 19, 2015 |
Topic: Icom US headquarters tour by Ray Novak, N9JA. Lynn, N7CFO gave a presentation on the Fox Delta antenna analyzer. |
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April 21, 2015 |
Topic: Icom D-STAR and Android; Sainsonic AP-510 – WA7NWP – APRS Beacon; MicroTrak; K3LR Quadcopter; and Dayton. |
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March 17, 2015 |
Topic: Board of Director Elections were completed, see the BoD page for the results. We also had a SDR show and tell where members showed off their SDR solutions. |
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February 17, 2015 |
Topic: Discussion about latest Codec2 efforts and MHDC |
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January 20, 2015 |
Topic: Show & Tell and Ham-Help |
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December 26, 2014 |
Topic: The Bi-Annual Dinner meeting. |
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November 18, 2014 |
Topic: MicroHAMS Digital Conference update by KU7M. |
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October 21, 2014 |
Topics: HamWAN update and how Bluetooth low power mode works. |
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September 16, 2014 |
Topic: How to install a mobile rig, mobile antenna options and suggestions. |
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August 19, 2014 |
Topic: Bi-Annual Dinner Meeting! – Huge turn out, there must have been at least 25 people there last month. |
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July 15, 2014 |
Topic: include
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June 17, 2014 |
Topic: include
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May 20, 2014 |
Topic: include
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April 15, 2014 |
Topic: included
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March 18, 2014 |
MHDC 2014 details, Board of Directors elections and KD7VBS gave a great talk on using the Realtek RTL2832U for Software Defined Radio (SDR). Full notes available here: link. |
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February 18, 2014 |
Topics included:
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January 16, 2014 |
Topics included:
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December 19, 2013 |
Yearly Christmas diner meeting at local Mexican place. |
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November 19, 2013 |
Ray Novak-N9JA (Icom NA Sales manager) gave a talk on his experiences with operating the Mozambique DXpediation this last year. |
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October 15, 2013 |
Topics included:
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September 17, 2013 |
Topic: Dennis, K7DEN gave a talk on transmission lines and how they work. His Slides are available here. |
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August 20, 2013 |
Topic: End of summer dinner meeting. We meet at the Tu Casa restaurant and ragchewed over dinner. |
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July 16, 2013 |
Two talks were presented. Kenny, KU7M gave a the first in hopefully a regular series of “Shack-n-Tell”, where he gave a quick walk through of his current shack. The main presentation of the evening was Taylor Smith, K7TAY great talk about Summits on the Air. Taylor’s presentation is available here and Kenny’s is available here. |
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June 18, 2013 |
Topic: Reviewed the things which people were interested in doing for ARRL Field Day. Scott-N7SS also gave some demo’s for installing crimp style coax connectors. (PL259/N/etc). |
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May 21, 2013 |
Topic: Planning for Field Day 2013 by Scott-N7SS. |
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April 19, 2013 |
Topic: No specific topic, but decided on Field Day plan for 2013. (2A and all Digital) Additionally received an update on the Communication Academy held the previous weekend and announced the new board of directors. |
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March 19, 2013 |
Topic: Elections for Board of Directors, Treasurer report (ending balance $8,442.08) and final prep for MicroHAMS Digital Conference.. |
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February 19, 2013 |
Topic: Reviewed volunteer positions for MicroHAMS Digital Conference. Also discussed plan to donate funds to the HamWAN project. Held elections for 2013 Board of Directors. |
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January 15, 2013 |
Topic: Dr. Josh Smith, a pioneer in wireless transmission of power, gave us an overview of his work. You can read it here |
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December 18, 2012 |
Topic: Annual Holiday Meeting, dinner only!. |
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November 20, 2012 |
Topic: Reviewed the current projects the members are working on. |
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October 17, 2012 |
Topic: Kenny Richards, KU7M told the story of how his homebrew D-Star repeater came to be. (copy of presentation is available here) |
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September 18, 2012 |
Topic: Puget Sound Data Ring by Bart Kus-AE7SI. (copy of presentation is available here) |
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August 21, 2012 |
Topic: Special end of summer Dinner meeting!. Currently scheduled at the Tu Casa restaurant @ 2115 Bel Red Road in Redmond. |
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July 17, 2012 |
Topic: Andy Ruschak KK7TR gave a presentation on Technology and Trends in Public Safety Communications. |
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June 19, 2012 |
Topic: Discuss the MicroHAMS Field Day plans. Invited the chairman of the Redmond ARES team, who we are joining for Field Day. |
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May 15, 2012 |
Topic: Travis Martin spoke about the Windows 8 NFC (near field communication) protocol. Travis is a developer on the Win8 NFC driver team. |
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April 17, 2012 |
Topic: Our speaker is Adam Burns from Icom America. He’ll be talking about NXDN radios (favored by railroads), a Part 90 commercial digital radio system that can be used under Part 97 rules. He will also talk about the Eclipse2 software-defined repeater. |
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March 20, 2012 |
Topic: Discussion the upcoming MicroHAMS Digital Conference and watched a presentation from the 2011 TAPR conference on Mesh-Potato or Village Telco project.. |
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February 21, 2012 |
Topic: Discussion about upcoming MicroHAMS Digital Conference and watch a ARVN video on the FunCube Dongle |
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January 17, 2012 |
While the meeting wasn’t cancelled, the attendance was limited due to the snow storm Seattle was dealing with that week. Agenda was pushed till February meeting. |
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December 20, 2011 |
No regular meeting, instead we had dinner at the local Round Table. |
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November 15, 2011 |
Unknown what presentation was, do you know? Send note to KU7M!. |
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October 18, 2011 |
General meeting and discussion about what club would like for future presentations and brain storming of ideas. |
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September 21, 2011 |
Ray Novak, N9JA the Division Manager at Icom America who will speak on his experiences with a 26A Field Day station.<br |
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August 20, 2011 |
No meeting.<br |
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July 20, 2011 |
The entire meeting was focused on debrief of the Microhams / Redmond ARES Field Day 2011.<br |
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June 21, 2011 |
The entire meeting was focused on Field Day discussions and planning.<br |
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May 19, 2011 |
We discussed a new proposed bylaw amendment updating the member dues amounts.(which was ultimately approved) The second topic was briefly discuss the new Field Day location.<br |
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April 19, 2011 |
The meeting topic will be an excellent video called Engineering Connections – more available here.<br |
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March. 15, 2011 |
Topic: Miguel, KC7IGT presented his latest project a remote control of an SDR radio. His Softrock receiver available via the Internet.. |
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Feb. 15, 2011 |
Topic: Constitution amendment and video. |
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Jan. 18, 2011 |
Topic: Video documentary about Sarnoff, DeForrest, and Armstrong. |
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Dec. 21, 2010 |
Topic: No official meeting, club met for dinner. |
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Nov. 16, 2010 |
Topic: Recent Conference Briefing |
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Oct 21, 2010 |
Topic: Robin – KE7ARL GSM Phone Chip to get data service. |
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Sep. 17, 2010 |
Topic: Kenny – KU7M Digital conference postmortem. |
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July 16, 2010 |
Topic: Scott-N7SS Fieldday Postmortem. |
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June 18, 2010 |
Topic: Scott-N7SS Fieldday 2010 Preperation . |
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April 20, 2010 |
Topic: Steve-N8GNJ will present the final presentation in the series on Hacking the Linksys WRT54G and a overview of mesh networking. |
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March 16, 2010 |
Topic: Kenny-KU7M present the second part in the series on hacking the WRT54G |
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February 16, 2009 |
Dennis-K7DEN gave the first of three presentations on hacking the Linksys WRT54G router. |
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January 19, 2010 |
Scott-N7SS gave an updated presentation on VHF contesting |
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December 17, 2009 |
No Meeting – Happy Holiday’s! |
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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. |
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October 20, 2009 |
Topic: Building cool things with the Arduino board by KD7VBS |
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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. |
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August 18, 2009 |
K7DEM showed a video from last years TAPR conference on building SatSuit1. |
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July 21, 2009 |
Field Day post mortem and huge list of upcoming events. |
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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. |
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May 19, 2009 |
More Field Day 2009 prep work. |
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April 21, 2009 |
Introduced the new board and had lots of discussions about Field Day 2009 |
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March 17, 2009 |
Prepared the digital conference packets and held elections for the board of directors. |
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February 17, 2009 |
Review status of the digital conference and watched a video from the 2008 TAPR developer conference. |
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January 20, 2009 |
Lynn – N7CFO gave a presentation on his experiences getting Winlink and Pactor3 running. |
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December 18, 2008 |
No Meeting – to close to the holidays |
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November 18, 2008 |
Adam – VA7OJ/AB7OJ spoke about his experiences managing several popular Ham radio online forums. |
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September 16, 2008 |
Scott-N7SS presented pictures from his tour of HAARP during his AK trip. |
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October 21, 2008 |
Marc-K9PET spoke about CasualDX. |
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August 19, 2008 |
Video on HF Digital Voice for Amateur Radio |
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July 15, 2008 |
Held a Field Day Postmortem with Redmond ARES club and discussed plans for next years Field Day |
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June 17, 2008 |
Met with the Redmond ARES club to prepare for a joint Field Day and reviewed the MicroHAMS equipment database |
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May 20, 2008 |
Mike-N6MZ gave an introduction to the clubs new service monitor |
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April 15, 2008 |
Presentation on portable antenna options by Joe-WO8J |
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March 18, 2008 |
Intro to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing by Dennis-K7DEN. The slides are available here. |
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February 19, 2008 |
Reviewed the status of the Microhams Digital Conference and hear a update from N7SS on Orlando Hamfest |
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January 15, 2008 |
We watched a couple short podcasts from AmateurTV about MFJ. |
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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. |
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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. |
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October 16, 2007 |
“llya-KE7OPG talked about his recent adventure to the High Speed Telegraphy contest in Belgrade, Serbia.” |
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September 18, 2007 |
“Mapping APRS Tracks with MapPoint by Kenny-KU7M, slide deck posted soon” |
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August 21, 2007 |
“Canceled regular August meeting. Met just for dinner in Redmond” |
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July 17, 2007 |
“Presentation and demo of the clubs news battery analyzer by Robin-W7YED” |
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June 18, 2007 |
“Field Day Prep” |
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May 15, 2007 |
Unknown. |
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April 17, 2007 |
We watched a DXPedition video. |
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March 20, 2007 |
“Bill showed off the wonders of NSLU2 with his talk on “Amateur applications for the Linksys NSLU2 device” by Bill-WA7NWP. |
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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”. |
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January 16, 2007 |
Meeting was canceled due to the second Winter Storm of the season. |
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December 19, 2006 |
Meeting was canceled due to the Winter Storm. |
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November 21, 2006 |
Since the meeting lands in the same week as Thanksgiving, there will be no meeting in November. |
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October 17, 2006 |
Dennis-K7DEH gave a great presentation on the theory behind J-Pole antennas and construction details. |
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September 19, 2006 |
Kenny-KU7M is going to give a presentation about working the simple digital APRS satellites using a D7/D700. |
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August 15, 2006 |
Ray-N9JA talked about his experiences attending the large hamfest in South America and attending WRTC contest. |
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July 18, 2006 |
Art-N7CC spoke about his experiences building a complete Elecraft K2. |
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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. |
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May 16, 2006 |
Watched the DVD of the World Radiosport Team Championship 2002. |
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May 16, 2006 |
Watched the DVD of the World Radiosport Team Championship 2002. |
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April 18, 2006 |
New officers were announced, see the April board meeting notes for details. Also 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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December 20, 2005 |
Movie Nite! Mike N6MZ brought in a DVD on his DxPedition to Kergeulen Island. |
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November 15, 2005 |
Mike, K7MDL presented his SDR (Software Defined Radio) and its different options. |
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October 18, 2005 |
Something happen. |
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September 20, 2005 |
N6MZ spoke about his latest DXPedition adventure. The title of the talk is “In the Middle of Nowhere: FT5XO”. |
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August 16, 2005 |
Mike-K7MDL gave a updated presentation on Radio Mobile. |
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July 19, 2005 |
Post Mortum for FD2005 and watched a interesting 1950’s Bell Labs video on SWR and Impendence matches. |
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June 21, 2005 |
Voted on bylaw changes for family membership and ran though last minute items for Field Day 2005. |
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May 17, 2005 |
Walked through high level action items for Field Day by K7LOG. Presentation by N7CFO on his morse code keys and bugs. |
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April 19, 2005 |
Announcement of new board and a presentation on Redmond ARES by Lt. Gordon of Redmond PD. Included a tour of the Redmond mobile CommCenter. |
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March 15, 2005 |
Official board elections and presentation by N7SS on operating martime mobile for the 160m CW contest. |
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February 15, 2005 |
Great presentation on W7YED’s experiences putting up an “expensive” tower. |
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January 18, 2005 |
Yearly treasury report, watched Icom video and presentation on putting up a ‘cheap’ tower by KU7M. |
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December 21, 2004 |
Meeting cancelled – same week as Christmas |
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November 16, 2004 |
Great talk by Lyle-KK7P on AO51. |
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October 19, 2004 |
Art-N7CC gave a overview of hardline coax and the special requirements when using it. |
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September 21, 2004 |
Held the first MicroHams auction and watch video about 3B9X DXpedition. |
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August 17, 2004 |
Viewed the very funny HamRadio music video and N6MZ gave a presentation and live demo for the LoTW. |
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July 20, 2004 |
Reviewed score for FD2004 and then covered the good/bad from this years Field Day. |
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June 15, 2004 |
Reviewed final plans for Field Day and operated KD7SLL’s mock FD contest using the loaned IC-7800! |
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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. |
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April 20, 2004 |
Mike-K7MLD did a show and tell with his latest microwave project, a low cost 10Ghz transverter. |
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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. |
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February 17, 2004 |
Dennis-KD7PSV discussed his experieneces with the ARRL online antenna course and the modeling tools used. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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October 21, 2003 |
Watched a movie on the VP8SSI South Sandwich Island DXpedition. |
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September 16, 2003 |
Update on new 40m band changes, 60m allocation and BPL, presented by Mike, N6MZ. Notes for the presentation available here. |
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August 19, 2003 |
Movie Night! – VK0IR Heard Island video, titled “Field Day 12,000 Miles Away”, presented by Mike, N6MZ. |
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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. |
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June 17, 2003 |
Final Field Day prep and FD contesting presentation from Mike, N6MZ. |
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May 20, 2003 |
Annouced the new Microhams club call, N7OS. Reviewed details for upcoming Field Day and got an update on Dayton. |
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April 15, 2003 |
Annual Field Day goal setting meeting. Reviewed FD2003 Feature specification. |
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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. |
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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. |
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January 21, 2003 |
Mike Mraz, N6MZ gave a great presentation on the XR0X Dxpedition. |
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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. |
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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.<A/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.<A/August 13, 2002Informal meeting; no scheduled topic. |
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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. |
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May 14, 2002 |
“Field Day Planning – Part I”We talked about logistical issues for Field Day this year. |
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April 9, 2002 |
“Field Day Goal Setting”We met to talk about what our goals were for Field Day. |
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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. |
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February 12, 2002 |
Kenny Richards and Mark Lium show us how to have fun while contesting.Resource: Slides “VHF contesting” |
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January 8, 2002 |
“Miscellaneous”We just hung out together and had fun, just like we always do. 🙂 |
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December 11, 2001 |
“Powerpoles”N7CC gave an informal talk on Anderson Powerpole connectors. |
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November 13, 2001 |
“VHF contesting” Scott Honaker talked to us about VHF contesting. |
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October 9, 2001 |
“Radio Direction Finding” – Scott Honaker gave a presentation on RDF antennas and techniques. |
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September 11, 2001 |
Due to the tragic events of September 11, our meeting was cancelled. |
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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. |
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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. |
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June 12, 2001 |
“Field Day 2001” – We met to talk about what we were going to do for Field Day 2001. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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August 2000 |
The MicroHAMS club did not meet this month. |
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July 14, 2000 |
“The New Club Logo”Along with recapping this year’s Field Day activities, we also presented our new club logo. |
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June 2, 2000 |
“Field Day 2000” – Scott Honaker (N7WLO) laid out the plan for Field Day. |
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May 5, 2000 |
“A Tour of the New MicroHAMS Web Server” – An overview of the capabilities of our new web server. |
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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. |
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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. |
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February 4, 2000 |
“Pick the Board” – The club met to pick its first board members. |
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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. |
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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 restrictionson the use of the name “Microsoft”.) |
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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. |