2025-08-08 –, Ham Radio Village (W321)
Construct, test, and use a real antenna. Two kits are available: a VLF Foxhunt Loop to win your local fox hunts, and a LoRa Yagi antenna and become the alpha-ham dominating oppressive gain and narrow beam width.
Join us as we condense the sum total of humanity's antenna knowledge into 30 gripping fun-filled minutes of building, testing, and using a built from scratch antenna. Afterwards the instructors will be around to help with assembly in the Village.
This talk will demonstrate building this year's antenna building workshop. Our selections this year include a VHF loop for fox-hunting, suitable for use in this year's fox-hunt. Second is a LoRa compatible Yagi. You will learn the basics of antenna construction, testing, and finally verifying with the cold cruel uncaring reality of physics that your antenna works.
We will also cover trouble-shooting antennas, common pitfalls, and unsolicited life advice.
Chem Engineer, ex Navy Nuke and deep submersible pilot. Currently Director of planning for large Si wafer manufacturer.