Dylon Mutz

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Nov 28

W6TRW Club Meeting December 14, 2021

Speaker Topic for this Month: “Pizza Pan Antenna Test Fixture, SWR Bridges & NanoVNA” Allen Wolff, KC7O Allen Wolff, KC7O, has held an Amateur license for 57 years (in NY, NJ, IN, UT and CA), is an ARRL Life Member, and earned his First Class FCC Radio Telephone License (now General Radio Telephone) in 1974. …

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Nov 06

W6TRW Club Meeting November 9, 2021

Speaker Topic for this Month: “AMSAT GOLF” Chris Wachs, WA2KDL   The goal of the GOLF program is to work by steps through a series of increasingly capable spacecraft to learn skills and systems for which we do not yet have any low-risk experience.  Among these are active attitude control, deployable/steerable solar panels, radiation tolerance for …

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Oct 02

W6TRW Club Meeting October 12, 2021

Speaker Topic for this Month: “Radio Frequency Interference – From Both Sides” Bill Shanney, W6QR RFI is a growing issue for Amateur Radio. The proliferation of electronics has added many potential noise sources which can interfere with receive signals. Our transmit signals can also interfere with household electronics. In this talk I’ll describe my experiences …

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Sep 09

W6TRW Club Meeting September 14, 2021

2.4GHz XCVR Module for Model Rocket Payload Dylon Mutz, KK6OTK Dylon Mutz, KK6OTK, will be speaking about his model rocket project with working payload capable of transmitting live altitude telemetry using 2.4GHz transceiver modules. When: Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30 PM Where: Virtual Meeting on Zoom Due to continued COVID-19 public health guidelines, the W6TRW …

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Aug 09

W6TRW Club Meeting August 10, 2021

N6RRY Long Duration Balloon Project Greg Martens, N6RRY Greg Martens, N6RRY, and other hams built a long duration balloon that circled the Earth 5 times.  Greg’s APRS callsign, N6RRY-11, was used to track the balloon around the world. When: Tuesday, August 10th at 6:30 PM Where: Virtual Meeting on Zoom Due to continued COVID-19 public …

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Jul 09

W6TRW Club Meeting July 13, 2021

  Stepping Up To A Hexbeam Chris Newton, N6FR Stepping up to a multiband directional antenna can be an intimidating and costly engineering enterprise.  However, the broadband hexbeam is an attractive option on both fronts.  This presentation covers the theory behind the hexbeam, construction notes on the commercial product sold by KIO Technology, and early …

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Jun 25

Field Day 2021 Is On!

W6TRW Field Day 2021 Is On! June 26-27, 2021 QTH: Deane Dana Friendship Park, San Pedro 1805 W 9th St, San Pedro, CA 90732 Event Schedule: 1800 UTC Saturday (11:00am local); Ending at 2100 UTC Sunday (2:00pm local) Due to recent COVID restrictions being lifted and thanks to the quick work of several club members, …

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Dec 06

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday December 8, 2020 Repeater Net & Zoom

W6TRW General Meeting 6:30 PM Tuesday 8 December Will Be Replaced by Repeater Net on the W6TRW 2 meter and 440 MHz repeaters, and a Zoom meeting. For the 8 December Tuesday 6:30 PM call-in, here is the W6TRW repeater info ( https://w6trw.com/repeaters/ ): VHF 2 Meters • 145.320 MHz, Offset: -600 kHz, PL: 114.8 Hz; Located …

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Nov 10

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday November 10, 2020 Repeater Net & Zoom

 W6TRW General Meeting 5:30PM 6:30 PM Tuesday 10 November Will Be Replaced by Repeater Net on the W6TRW 2 meter and 440 MHz repeaters, and a Zoom meeting. For the 10 November Tuesday 5:30PM 6:30PM call-in, here is the W6TRW repeater info ( https://w6trw.com/repeaters/ ):  VHF 2 Meters • 145.320 MHz, Offset: -600 kHz, PL: …

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Oct 13

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday October 13, 2020 Repeater Net & Zoom

Hi, all! We’re going to try something different for the Tuesday 13 October net.  Since a number of our W6TRW members can’t hit the local South Bay based W6TRW repeaters, we have decided to try Zoom, which other amateur radio clubs are using. Zoom isn’t as bad as the reputation that precedes it– you can …

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