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W6TRW Club Meeting February 14, 2023

Speaker Topic for this Month: “HF Update – Making The Most of Your Operating Time” Bill Shanney, W6QR In this presentation, Bill reviews transceiver performance with an emphasis on making sure you get what you want and also a radio that has a clean transmitter. Following is an antenna overview leading into some examples of …

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W6TRW Club Meeting May 10, 2022

Speaker Topic for this Month: “EFHW Antenna” Bill Shanney, W6QR W6TRW welcomes one its own, longtime members, Bill Shanney, W6QR.  A ham operator since 1960, Bill has written many technical articles and stays current with ham radio items of interest for beginners to the most advanced operators. “My first call was WV2RDG in NJ. I …

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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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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday May 8, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting May 8, 2018 Tuesday @ 5:30pm Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker from Silicon Valley:  Edison Fong, WB6IQN “A Tri-Band Antenna for 2 meters, 220 MHz, & 70 cm Antenna Without Radials” WB6IQN will present his new patent on a Tri Band base antenna (TBJ-1), featured in QST March 2017. …

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