Read an interview with Dr. Chris Lirakis AA9AL before the Newport County Radio Club recent 6-GHz VNA assembly event at FabNewport, Newport, RI.
Assembly event video highlights:
ARRL New England Division Town Hall Meeting – February 23, 2023 at 7 pm
Phil Temples K9HI, our Assistant Directors, and I will hold our next New England Division Town Hall Meeting on Thursday, February 23rd, at 7 pm ET. The purpose of the meeting will be to provide you with an ARRL update, get your thoughts on what we should be focusing on, and answer any questions you might have about the ARRL and what we are doing on behalf of ARRL members here in New England. We plan to spend a good deal of our time together answering your questions. If you’d like to send us a question in advance, you can do so via an email to ab1oc@arrl.org, or you can just plan to ask your questions during the Town Hall Meeting.We will hold our Town Hall Meeting via a Zoom Webinar. You can get your personal link to join the Town Hall Meeting via the following link (paste the link in your browser to register) –https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-4QVGZj_THG1VXImuTnazQ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. We hope to see you on February 23rd!
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ARRL New England Division
Director: Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC ab1oc@arrl.org
Phil Temples <phil@temples.com>
Willy W1LY Featured in The Jamestown Press
Willy W1LY was featured on page 11 of the February 9th edition of The Jamestown Press, in a nice story that described his entry into the hobby, as well as the club’s activities during JOTA, WFD and SFD. Our thanks to The Jamestown Press, and of course to Willy, a tireless member of our club who represents the best of what Amateur Radio is all about!
To see the entire article, please click on this link: W1LY & WFD
NCRC February Meeting
NCRC’s February Meeting will be a remote only meeting from 7:00pm to 9:00pm on Monday, February 13. A ZOOM invitation will be sent out later this weekend. Minutes and Business Meeting slides will be posted as available.
A special presentation entitled “SPY” Radio Operations, Enigmas & CIA “BUGS”, will be given by Dr. Tom Perera W1TP.
Tom will describe the desperate attempts by the resistance to build and hide secret radios so they could keep informed about the progress of the war. He will show how spies communicated critically important intelligence information back to the Allies while being ruthlessly hunted by direction-finding teams. The role of the ENIGMA and the latest CIA “Bugs” and radios will also be discussed.
Tom is a retired professor of neuroscience. He has been an active ham for over 69 years while collecting, researching, lecturing and writing about WW-II radios, telegraph keys and German Enigma cipher machines. His website: http://w1tp.com shows and describes over 3000 telegraph keys and radios and his online Enigma museum: http://EnigmaMuseum.com shows Enigma history and technology.
Very Nice Analyzer (VNA) assembly event
NCRC invites you to a learning experience on Vector Network Analyzers, the most common instrument for RF component measurements. This is a kickoff for the ÄRTEN™ project funded by a recent ARRL grant to NCRC.
Place: FabNewport,
Address: 1 York St, Newport, RI 02840
Time: 6:30 pm to 9pm
The first 2 minutes of the youtube DIY Vector Network Analyzer Kit explains the instrument concept but we hope to bring this knowledge to a much younger and older audience. The remainder of the video deals with the software aspects. To me the VNA is a fancy AC Ohmmeter for RF components.
Agenda for Friday is to review the material in the UVNA-63 box and have the team mount the pieces and connect the coax cables with a proper torque wrench. We will then attempt to measure some common components like a resistor, capacitor and inductor and measure filter parameters of the supplied test circuits like filters. Another skill used will be the calibration of the instrument that is typical of any VNA like the NanoVNA. A Very Nice Analyzer learning tool indeed.
Hoping to see you and we will attempt a recording to share if you can’t.
For more info contact : VicePresident@W1sye.org