Meeting Program Presentations & Activities

Here is a list of recent ham radio related club activities that have been presented at the regular club meetings held every 2nd Tuesday of the Month at 7:00pm at our clubhouse at 5513 Stewart Lane.

If you have a presentation of general amateur radio interest you’d like to present at a club meeting, please present the idea to the vice-president of program by sending an email to contact@w5qx.org

• Radio Mobile Propogation Software (https://www.ve2dbe.com/rmonline_s.asp) by K5DCM
• 900MHz LoRa Mesh Networking / Meshtastic node construction and configuration, K5ICR
• Twin-Lead roll-up J-Pole Construction Activity led by W7IKT
• Club History research which led to Radio Pioneers of San Angelo Museum Exhibit by K5DCM
• Anderson Power Poles – Purpose, usage and techniques for installation by K5DCM
• Nano VNA – Purpose, usage, and experiences using, by N5TBT
• Coax Cable Connector Types, examples, usage, planning for connector camp by K5DCM
• 3D Printing presentation & overview by K5DCM and KI5ZEX
• Debrief of O.C. Fisher Corps of Engineers Exercise/Workshop
• Lithium Battery Safety, summary of safety course presented by COSA EOC
• 94 Repeater Project Completion Report by K5DCM
• AI Noise Cancelling filtering in the Cloud for HF SSB audio (W5ODP)
• FT8 Demonstration using Club Station by KD5TKR (worked Arctic Research Station!)
• Presentation by SAPD Dispatch & Radio System Director
• Field Trip to Poor Boy Avionics for an aviation radio presentation and shop tour by WB5MTR
• COAD Community Organizations in Disaster exercise debrief by K5ICR, KC7LOX, KD5URW
• Runnels County Repeaters Status Update by K5DCM
• Calculation of total feed-line losses for various types of cable, in context of planning for N5NWS station upgrade. by K5DCM

Future Program Presentations in the works… in no particular order, no dates guaranteed

• Modification of 900MHz Commercial Mobile radios for Ham use by K5DCM
• ISS Crossband Repeater overview and techniques by K5DCM
• Programming Cables and Software – Build your own cables, pitfalls to avoid by K5DCM
• AM Broadcast antennas by K5AHN
• Repeater Duplexer Tuning by K5AHN
• EME Moonbounce Operations by WM5L