McHenry County Wireless Association - Meetings

7:00PM - Socializing

7:30 PM - Business Meeting

8:00 PM - Program

9:00 PM - Village Squire, Crystal Lake
for Pizza and drinks. Everyone is invited. We usually chip in $10 each which leaves a good tip so they will let us come back next month, hi, hi.

PROGRAMS

February 7, 2012 - Wendell, N9REP, will give a talk about the UDDER Century Run

January 3, 2012 - Dave, NT9E, will present the latest technology in digital sound systems and R/C control for Large Scale (1:22-1:32 gauge) Model Railroading.

December 6, 2011 - Tom, W9NBG, will give the talk, "It is all about the Dipole"

November 1, 2011 - Mike, WB8BZK, will present “Canadian VHF Adventure (The Quest for 50 MHz VUCC from EO40).

October 4, 2011 - Jack, W9MU – Part 2 of his program on propagation, with an emphasis on 40, 80, and 160 M.

September 6, 2011 - The September meeting will have Jim, N7US, presenting a program on DXLab Suite (more info about the program here.

August 2, 2011 - Mobile Installation. Marty, W9MLP, will present.

July 5, 20011 - NO MEETING - since most of us have been together for Field Day, we usually skip this month.

June 7, 2011 - Program - HF Propogation, Hints & Kinks for 10/12/15/17/20 Meter Bands by Jack Hudson, W9MU.

May 3, 2011 - Program
Quartz Crystals:
While in days gone-by, crystals had meant that you were 'rock bound'; stuck on one frequency, modern radios are all crystal controlled. Once dug out of the ground, modern quartz is now manufactured. Steve will review some history, show how stable crystals really are and have things too look at. Our thanks to Steve, K9DCI for this program.

April 5, 2011 - Long Path on 50 Mhz
Masayuki Inoue JN3NFQ (K1GI) will present a program he and his friend Yutaka Ninomiya, JG3IFX put together for MCWA about long path on 50 MHz. See the article in the January 2011 QST page 90 for more details. A few of their friends, other JA 6M hams, are contributing to the presentation. This should be a very interesting program. Do not miss this one.
(check Jan & Feb QST "The World Above 50MHz for more info)

March 1, 2011 - The March meeting program was presented by AA6DY on low power automated CW QSO's. This is very low power HF with very slow speeds and special encoding.
View the Power Point Presentation by dowloading this 3.8 meg file.
Here's some more information about QRSS