Wes Cardone presented at the July 2024 meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club the principles of directed energy by means of multiple antennas. The principle is that you rob from the rich and give to the poor. We decide on a pattern that we want our dual-antenna configuration to produce and then place the two antennas a defined distance… Read more »
The 2024 Chelsea Amateur Radio Club Swap & Shop was a huge success. The weather looked down upon us favorably as well. Please tune in later for photographs taken of our door prize awards presentations.
I will take the blame for allowing my Kenwood TM-V71A transceiver to be abused. Witness the result of my abuse illustrated in Figure 1. The DC power cord has become horribly frayed and worn. And that to the point of an imminent short! But let this be a warning to others to mind what is going on with your equipment… Read more »
The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club site agreement ends, and an urgent search for a new location is underway. Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club facing displacement after 50 Years on the Mesa
At the May meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club board, Margaret A. Goodrich (W8MAG) was made a life member. Margaret has served the club for literally decades upon decades with dedication. Her late husband, David, was likewise an asset to the club beyond measure.
Updated 4-18-2024 I recently discovered a YouTube video that shows how to cut an antenna’s feedline length to achieve resonance (See below). I then discovered that there are many such erroneous YouTube videos telling you that you can use “jumpers” to improve your antenna performance. There are no benefits to these practices! But this begs the question… Why? On the… Read more »
More on EZNEC at the April 2024 club meeting. Have you dabbled with EZNEC antenna modeling software (or any of the other free NEC derived antenna modeling software applications) and found it just did not work out for you? Join the crowd. At the April meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club, Wesley Cardone (N8QM) will give a third presentation… Read more »
Here are the slides for tonight’s (March 13, 2024 at 7 PM Eastern DST) presentation. This will be by video conference using the usual club Zoom account. Click here for a direct link. For more information, please see the earlier blog post.
A Qualitative Presentation At last month’s meeting (February 2024), we introduced the free EZNEC antenna modeling software. It was a very introduction-oriented presentation that explained what it was all about. For the March 2024 meeting (Tuesday, March 12th), we will be presenting concepts relating to what EZNEC software demands from you, the user. That is, what ratios in wire lengths… Read more »