UPDATE: Doug K6JEY is unfortunately feeling ill and is unable to speak this month. Instead, Mark KD7DTS and Angelina KN6QAT will speak on “Your First SOTA Activation!”
Mark KD7DTS is one of the top Summits on the Air (SOTA) activators in SoCal and has a mountain of experience! Angelina KN6QAT recently achieved both her Tech and General license and has been keen in learning from our membership, including tackling her first SOTA summit and activation with Mark! Come learn about their experiences as first-time and expert SOTA activators!
(Same Zoom links and meeting location details as below)
Speaker Topic for this Month:
“Sidewalk Earth-Moon-Earth”
Doug Millar, K6JEY
Doug’s first EME QSO was in 1990 on 2m with W5UN, using two 35’ yagis and 500watts. ”I wanted to work on other bands and with no more roof space, that started the Sidewalk EME idea.” Just like cogs in a machine working together to make it function, he started collecting his gear to develop a practical home station. With a little help from his friends, find out how K6JEY turned the ‘impossible’ to became possible and fun to operate moonbounce on 144 MHz, and microwave amateur radio bands.
Dr. Doug Millar was first licensed in 1957 as KN6JEY. He is the ARRL Technical Advisor in Metrology, having written the 26th chapter in the ARRL Handbook on Test Equipment and Procedures (1995-2014), and keeps a home lab for measuring frequency, resistance, and RF power. K6JEY enjoys HF CW, AM, boat anchors, and microwaves. Doug has radios on bands up to 122 GHz. He holds an EdD in Educational Technology and is a semi-retired professor.
He will be leading a visit to Owens Valley Radio Observatory on the Weekend of June XX. The visit will include a tour of the observatory and nighttime astronomy. You can bring your own scope or look through others. More information is available if you email him at drzarkof56@yahoo.com.
When: Tuesday, April 8th at 5:30 PM
Where: Northrop Grumman S-Cafe and Virtual Meeting on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82794654895
Meeting ID: 827 9465 4895
Phone dial-in: 1 669 900 6833