weekly net - topics

Members are encouraged to find topics from QST or "On The Air" articles and the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications (copies are available in the Shack).

Below are ideas for discussion topics, which loosely follows the outline of the ARRL Handbook.

---activities---

Awards

Contests

Nets - traffic and casual nets

Ragchewing

ARRL Field Organization

Emergency Communications

Direction Finding

Satellite Operation

Repeaters

Image communications

Digital Communications

VHF Communications

Microwave Communications

EME (Earth-Moon-Earth)

---ac Theory and Reactive Components---

Quality Factor or Q of Components

Impedance

---safety---

RF Radiation and Electromagnetic Field Safety

Safety when building

---analog circuits---

Power Supplies

---Modulation types---

AM

SSB

FM

Digital Modes (WSPR, FT8, PSK31, Olivia, RTTY)

CW

Packet Radio

APRS

SSTV

FSTV

Radio Control

Spread Spectrum

---filters---

ELSI filter design tool

---transmission lines---

Matching antenna to transmission line

Matching transmission line to radio

Balancing devices: BALUN, UNUN

Impedance transformers

Waveguides

---antennas---

Trap dipoles

Verticals

Yagi

Quad

Quagi

Circular polarized beam

160 meter antennas

---propagation---

VOACAP

WWV / WWVH

Troposphere

MUF Prediction

Trap dipoles

---hamfests---

What to buy

How to negotiate

What NOT to buy

Experiences

---where to buy stuff online---

Favorite general retail dealer

Components?

Wire?

Tools

Kits to build

Measurement equipment

Local sources of stuff (in Tucson)