September 27th, 2007 - Mike Toia, K3MT, "Life in the Day of an Antenna Engineer"
Notes Posted By Len Hook on September 27th, 2007
VWS General Meeting, Friday, Sept. 14, 2007
Vienna Elementary School
Attendees: 40
Two first-time visitors: Ray Derr, and Nate Derr, welcome guys!
One new callsign: AI4ZA, Glen Smith. Congratulations, Glen.
Refreshments: Dan Sullivan, KO1D. Thanks, Dan!
Next week: Gary Nelson, KI4EKM.
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 PM by President Jim Parsons, W4JTP.
Announcements
Pete Norloff, KG4OJT.
1. New 2007 VWS Club Directories are available, $3.00 each.
2. VWS received a check for $550 from the Town of Vienna, a donation to our repeater fund.
3. 'Summitt' estate items are listed on the VWS web site. The proceeds go to the widow, Kay Summitt.
4. VWS is planning a balloon launch in December. Details TBA.
5. The President's Picnic is Sept. 30 at the Glyndon Park upper pavilion.
6. The Vienna Halloween Parade is Wednesday, Oct. 24. We need 10-12 hams with HTs.
7. Please note our new cafeteria "clean-up" rules.
8. Rick Low, N6CY will be our 2008 Field Day Chairman.
New Business
Dan Sullivan, KO1D.
1. Marine Corps Marathon needs 120 hams. See ncacdc.com for details.
2. Reagan Drill coming up.
3. NVFMA Meeting Thursday, Sept. 27.
Net Report
Brian Treadwell, WV4V.
Brian filled in for Mike Steussy, AE4R as net control for the 10-m Pow-wow net, 28.444 MHz, Thursdays, 8:30 PM.
Repeater Report
John Transue, AF4PD.
The new feedline is in on the 2-m machine. Both 2-m and 440 machines are working fine.
Tonight's Presentation.
Mike Toia, K3MT, "Life in the Day of an Antenna Engineer"
Mike gave a very interesting presentation on designing wire antennas using the NEC v.4.0 software and the NEC2 engine. He concentrated on the design of multi-band windoms and inverted-Ls. It was fun to watch the NEC software operate in real time as Mike fed in the parameters such as wire length and segment size.
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