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We can reserve the same room, after VE Testing (morning) for in the afternoon. How about two Saturdays, October 4th and November 7th, from 12-4? Subject to room availability, at Bayland Park Community Center, 6400 Bissonnet.
Rick are you available for those days?
73 Mark K5MGJ
On Thursday, September 4, 2025 at 08:09:54 PM CDT, Rick Hiller via BVARC < [email protected]> wrote:
Ok, Blake, et al,
I would be all in to help instruct with an antenna building and general antenna theory class if some one wants to start getting one together. Let me know if you wish to discuss the possibilities.
Quite a few years back BVARC had a Saturday morning antenna seminar covering all types of antennas and it was well received. Coupling that with actually building a sky hook would attract more antenna aficionados and neophytes.
Standing by....73....Rick W5RH
Dan, I can confirm that an HT with a homebrew antenna is perfectly adequate for uplinking to a repeater.
My “base station” for a few months following my tech exam was a 10y/o IC-W32 and vertical dipole made of a wooden ruler, 12AWG electrical wire, GoPro mount, and BNC cable from a UHF microphone system. If anyone’s
made a J-pole from those same materials, I’d like to hear about it!
I’m still interested in an antenna building class with the club if anyone else is too. N5HCU built 2m tape measure Yagis a while back, and even that taught me a ton.
We also chatted about the intersection of new users, space-constrained antennas, low-cost handhelds, and hands-on projects!
The common Baofeng UV-5R has some limitations with the stock antenna. A gain antenna, like the J pole, can do all the good!
Friends in apartments, townhouses, and aggressive HOA-spaces can still make good use of the J pole planted in a flower pot or five gallon bucket!
Every new Ham, and any interested parties, can learn a lot from building antennas. The Golden Path of antenna building might look a lot like dipole, 1/4 wave ground plane, J pole, Slim Jim.
Cool, huh! I think we could manage a guided tutorial on antenna building!
So, friends such as N5BAA, with something like a HT, and a J pole in a bucket can really reach out! (lazy Clue metaphor)
We had a great chat today on 146.94 at 12:00 We even had a drop-in from the east coast (I think).
Our out of town guest offered up an interesting Raspberry Pi-based Ham Radio project -
sBitx
This reminded me of my interest in the Raspberry Pi-based WSPR project:
So cool! Everyone should do one!
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