{"id":4409,"date":"2014-04-04T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2019-08-06T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T12:58:15","slug":"2012-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/?p=4409","title":{"rendered":"2012 MEETING PRESENTATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<br \/>\n<strong>January<\/strong> &#8211; Team Belchfire: Lynn N2HS presented the 3-element, 6-meter antenna project that Jay WS7I, Wayne WA1PMA, and he made last Summer.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>February<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne WA1PMA and Jay WA0WWW presented logging programs; they also used the cluster with the programs, including the new chat feature for SDXA members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne WA1PMA and Steve K7AWB presented LOTW and how easy it really is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>April<\/strong> &#8211; A DVD on the VP8ORK (South Orkney) DXpedition produced by James Brooks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May<\/strong> &#8211; A Field Day equipment setup was made at the meeting from Wayne WA1PMA, Randy K7TQ, and Jay WA0WWW for the upcoming June Field Day event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>June<\/strong> &#8211; Wayne WA1PMA gave a presentation on the logging program called N1MM to be used at the next SDXA Field Day event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>July<\/strong> -#1 \u2013 WA1PMA went over the new DXCC application on line; now as the cards come in to you,  you can enter them into a ARRL database and not wait until the end to do them all.  #2 &#8211; a 8mm film re-do for a DXpedition in the early 70s to Wallis Island, tube rigs, wire antennas, paper logs and pigs. <\/p>\n<p><strong>August<\/strong> &#8211; Summer Picnic at Franklin Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September<\/strong> &#8211; Wilse WX7P from Rice, WA presented his construction of a Beverage antenna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October<\/strong> &#8211; Dan Knutsen PE from Avista talked about their RF Interference Elimination Program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>November<\/strong> &#8211; Randy W7TJ gave a program on propagation with excellent insights to the propagation we might see this coming period of years which he called The Winter. There was a handout with active web links to some sites to help you decide if you head for the shack or work on the honey-due list. H showed a video (one of the links on his sheet) on how the sun works and how it affects our propagation.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>December<\/strong> &#8211; Annual Awards Banquet on December 6 at the Longhorn BBQ in Airway Heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdxa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}