January 2009 Club Meeting - Jan 10th

Brent Carruth, AD7VF, will be giving a presentation on antennas, input impedance, designing impedance matching networks. Some of the types of antennas Brent will talk about are dipoles, Yagis, loops, quads, helicals, and arrays and the far-field radiation patterns of some of these types. Brent will begin with transmission lines and explain how antennas radiate. Then he will discuss input impedance and some techniques for impedance matching for a center-fed full wave dipole and an end-fed half wave dipole such as the popular J-pole antenna.
 
Also, part of the meeting will be to help others learn how to use the radio they received for Christmas. If you have a new radio you would like help programming or learning how to use, please bring your radio and manual if you have one.
 
As always, refreshments and visiting with friends.