I'm also interested in attending this as well!
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On Friday, September 5th, 2025 at 8:58 AM, Kelly Reimann via BVARC
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ditto.
>
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> On 9/5/25 08:51, Byron Harris via BVARC wrote:
> As a newish ham I would LOVE it. Count me in.
> Blessings,
> Byron
>
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> From: mark janzer via BVARC <[email protected]>
> Date: 9/5/25 8:39 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Cc: mark janzer <[email protected]>, Rick Hiller <[email protected]>
> Subject: [BVARC] Antenna Building and Theory class - was The Stir Crazy Net
> is here for you!
>
> 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
>
> Rick W5RH [email protected]
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM baaelectronics via BVARC <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 
> Blake Alley | BAA Electronics
> QRZ: N5BAA Mobile: (281) 450-5785
> [email protected]
>    
>
> From: BVARC <[email protected]> on behalf of Daniel Poirot via BVARC
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
> To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Poirot <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [BVARC] The Stir Crazy Net is here for you!
> AND...
>
> 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)
>
> Thoughts?
> 73
> Dan KJ5IZK
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM Daniel Poirot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
> The sBitx is a 25 watt, high performance SDR that you can easily build, it
> has all popular digital modes like FT8 integrated.
>
> This reminded me of my interest in the Raspberry Pi-based WSPR project:
> RaspberryPi WSPR Node : 7 Steps
> So cool! Everyone should do one!
>
> 73
> Dan KJ5IZK
>
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