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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to a Joint Conference
Joint Conference Announcement
History of Microwave Update
A Short Note From Your Eastern VHF/UHF Chairman
The Eastern VHF/UHF Conference Experience
Trivia Info
In Memoriam -- Tom Kirby, W1EJ
The Tom Kirby Award
Biographies
GENERAL
Roving Observations and Comments from the Mid-Atlantic; Bill Seabreze, W3IY/R
WSJT; Joe Taylor, W1JT
Quality DC Power -- Cheap; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
In Praise of Powerpole; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
An Audio Tone Indicator for Tuning or Antenna Measurements; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
So You Thought You New All About Crystals; Bob Aurand, K3VOT
So You Thought You New All About Crystal Oscillators; Chris Bartram, G4DGU
A Simple, Yet Still "Fool-Resistant": Sequencer for Transverters; Paul Wade,
W1GHZ
Bias Tee for Remote Transverter Control; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
Directional Couplers Used for VSWR and Power Measurements; Dick Knadle, K2RIW
Will Your Antenna Stay Up Next Winter; Matt Reilly, KB1VC
K6LEW Receiver Test Procedures; Owen Wormser, K6LEW
Connecting the Transverter to the Antenna; Peter Loveridge, ZL1UKG
Andrew Cable and Connectors at Microwave Frequencies; Tom Whitted, WA8WZG
50-1296 MHz
US Six Meter Firsts; Emil Pocock, W3EP
WA2WEJ's 10 Meter IF Mods for the Ten Tec 1208; Bill Hoenig, WA2WEJ
50 MHz Low Pass Filter Built in a Small Project Box; Bill Hoenig, WA2WEJ
Interface Circuits for the FT817; Dave Robinson, WW2R
Modifications to Improve the Noise Figure of the Ten Tec 1210; Maarten Broess,
W1FIG
HT Marker Generator; Wes Atchison, WA5TKU
Software DSP Solutions for Weak Signal Communications; Roger Rehr, W3SZ
2 Meter Miniverter -- A Tiny Transverter; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
A 222 MHz Transverter for FT817; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
GI-7B 222 MHz PA; Dragoshaw Dobricic, YU1AW
G4DDK004 Oscillator Upgrades; Kevin Murphy, ZL1UJG
Globalstar 1.6 GHz PA Modification for 1.3 GHz; Robert Munn, W6OYJ
New Receive Section Design for 1296 Transverters; Steve Kostro, N2CEI
The Very Small Array; Dr. Paul Shuch, N6TX
2304-5760 MHz
A State-of-the-Art 2.3 GHz Pre-amplifier; Grant
Hodgson, G8UBN
The Dual Injection Converter; Sam Jewell, G4DDK
A 2.4 GHz PLL Synthesised Local Oscillator Source; Grant Hodgson, G8UBN
Modifying the Qualcomm "Texas" Synthesizer for 2400 and 2592 MHz;
.. Dave Robinson, WW2R
The Quest for Microwave Frequency Stability; Tom Williams, WA1MBA
Helical Feed Antennas; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
BiQuad 802.11b Antenna 11 dBi, 'Wide Band'; Trevor Marshall
802.11b WLAN Waveguide Antennas; Trevor Marshall
Calculating and Correcting Radome Reflections; Dick Knadle, K2RIW
Modifying the Qualcomm 1W Ku-Band for use on 3.4, 5.7 or 10.3 GHz; K. Banke,
N6IZW
Experience in the Construction of a Portable Microwave EME System; Matt Reilly,
KB1VC
10 GHz & UP . . .
Self Locking Screws for Microwave Adjustments; Andre
Jamet, F9HX
Soldering 'pipe cap' Filters on a DEM 10 GHz, Xvtr Board; Bob Gormley, WA5YWC
Tutorial on Building the DB6NT 10 GHz Amplifier; Ken Schofield, W1RIL
Commercial Feedhorns for 10 GHz dishes; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
The Flyswatter Microwave Antenna; Doug GW3ATM
The 10 GHz Beacon at W3LPL; Mike Cresap, W3IP
Qualcomm Power Supply Board Layout; Chuck Houghton, WB6IGP
The Qualcomm 2.X GHz to 10 to 12 GHz Multiplier; Chuck Houghton, WB6IGP
Two X4 Microwave Multipliers; Ken Schofield, W1RIL
The 24 GHz Amplifier Project Delivers; P. Drexleer, W2PED, and T. Whitted
WA8WZG
Large Diameter Reflectors Antennas for 47 GHz; Barry Malowanchuk, VE4MA
An Example of Gear for the 241 GHz Amateur Band; Brian Justin, WA1ZMS/4
NOISE FIGURE MEASUREMENTS
2001 Eastern VHF/UHF Conference
SCVHFS Conference, 2002
ANTENNA MEASUREMENTS
2001 Eastern VHF/UHF Conference
Welcome to Fort Worth; Robin Haighton, VE3FRH
AMSAT OSCAR-B Project Status Update -- A New LEO Satellite from AMSAT-NA; Richard Hambly, W2GPS
Microsat Design -- What Do People Want?; Richard Hambly, W2GPS
So You Want to Build a Satellite! -- Revisited; Dick Jansson, WD4FAB
RUDAK DSP -- Software Defined Radio in Space; Assi Friedman, 4X1KX/KK7KK, Jim White, WDØE, Michael Kingery, KE4AZN, Lyle Johnson, KK7P, Harold Price, NK6K, and Chuck Green, NOØADI
AO-40 RUDAK Description and Results; Jim White, WDØE, Harold Price, NK6K, and Lyle Johnson, KK7P
Proposal for a FEC-Coded AO-40 Telemetry Link; Phil Karn, KA9Q
How Kids Can Talk to Space People (Who are aboard the International Space Station); Gene Chapline, K5YFL
Making a Case for Amateur Spectrum through Research, Education, and Industry Cooperation; Cliff Buttschardt, K7RR, W6HDO, and Clark Savage Turner, WA3JPG
Environmental Factors Affecting AO-40 Reception; G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM
The P5 Special: A Satellite Station for North Korea; Gerald Brown, K5OE, and Bruce Paige, KK5DO
A Disposable Antenna for Receiving AO-40 on S-Band; Anthony Monteiro, AA2TX
Dual-Band Dish Feeds for 13/23 cm; Gerald Brown, K5OE
A K-Band Receiver for AO-40 (For Less Than a King's Ransom); Gerald Brown, K5OE
The 8th Western States Weak Signal Society Conference was held October 11-13, 2002, in Cerritos, California. Here is a summary of papers presented. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. ISBN: 0-87259-874-8; cost is $20, plus shipping; ARRL Order No. 8748.
The 21st ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference was held September 13-15, 2002 in Denver, Colorado. Here is a summary of papers presented. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. ISBN: 0-87259-875-6; cost is $20, plus shipping; ARRL Order No. 8756.
1-Wire APRS Weather Station; William Beals, N0XGA
PIC-EII; Richard E. Carter, KE1EV
APRSWXNET/CWOP--A Beneficial Partnership of NOAA, Amateur Radio and Other Good Citizens; Russ Chadwick, KB00TVJ
Automatic Packet Reporting System: Building a Large Scale Geospatial Database; James Jefferson Jarvis, KB0THN
Created Realities Technology in Amateur Radio; Greg Jones, WD5IVD
Repeater Data Transmission System; Peter Mudie, VK2XZP
On Amateur Radio Use of IEEE 802.11b Radio Local Area Networks; Paul L. Rinaldo, W4RI, and John J. Champa, K8OCL
Emergency Radio Email (ER-Email); Paul Schreiber, W2UH
801.11 and Ham Radio; Darryl Smith, VK2TDS
A Software-Defined Radio for the Masses, Parts 1 and 2; Gerald Youngblood, AC5OG
Here is a summary of papers. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. ISBN: 0-87259-855-1; cost is $20, plus shipping; ARRL Order No. 8551.
Table of Contents
Amateur Radio Clubs
Instructors and Teachers
School and Youth Applications
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
Scouting Activities
Projects
General Interest
American Radio Relay League 2002 Audio Video List
Competitive Award Nomination Form
2000 ARRL Award Winners
SETICon 02 was held April 26--28, 2002, at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ. Here is a summary of papers presented. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. Cost is $20, plus shipping; ISBN: 0-87259-866-7; ARRL order number: 8667.
Technical Program
Keynote Address: Steven J. Dick, Ph.D.
Banquet Presentation: Why Alien Intelligence May Not Be So Alien; Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe
SETI League Vision and Mission Statements
Extra-Terrestrial QSL Cards, Rules and Regulations
Extra-Terrestrial Century Club Rules and Regulations
Giordano Burno Memorial Award Rules and Regulations
Orville N. Green Service Award Rules and Regulations
SETI and the Postbiological Universe; Steven J. Dick
Post-biological Implications for SETI; Professor Allen Tough
M87, a Bull's-eye for SETI?; Dallas Bader
Application of a Liquid Crystal Tunable Filter to Near-Infrared Spectral Searches; Jessica Call and Robert A. Lodder, WD8BTA
High Energy SETI: A New Proposal; Dr. Ian R. Carstairs
Modulated High Energy Photon Exchange as a Means of Extraterrestrial Communication; Dr. Ian R. Carstairs
Magic SETI Frequencies: One Amateur's Search; Steve Carver, K5PT
Upgrading your Argus station: where to put the money?; Marko Cebokli, S57UUU
Synchronized SETI--Searching for Low Duty Cycle Signals; Robin H. D. Corbet
Idea for a SETI Control Experiment; Robert L. DeBiase
A Planetary Probe with Hyperspectral Vision for Detection of Blue-Green Algae; Karen Dumstrof, Kah-Siew Ho, Adrienne Ellis and Robert A. Lodder, WD8BTA
The Little Bitty Telescope Version 2; Chuck Forster
The Stress Parabolic Reflector and Its Application to Space Communications; Allen Katz
Heat Transfer from a Solid-state Peltier-effect Cooling Device, Lee Kitchens, KB9PIP
What did Project Cyclops really say about Optical SETI?; Larry Lesyna
On Setting up a SETI Station as a Teaching Tool--Lessons Learned; Melvin A. Lewis
Condensation Prevention for LNAs and Associated Modules; Jeffrey M. Lichtman
The Future of SETI and Radioastronomy from the Farside of the Moon; Claudio Maccone
All Alone? (Or Not?); Philip Morrison
SETI Through the Gravitational Lenses of Alpha Centauri A, B, C and of Barnard's Star; Claudio Maccone
Simplified Alignment of a Radio Telescope; Dean Osgood
2001: A Moonbounce Odyssey; Dr. H. Paul Shuch, N6TX
SETI vs the Anthropic Principle; Nikiforos A. Sideris
Applying Descriptive Statistical Analysis to SETI Data: Looking for the Abnormal in the Normal; Russ Tillman, K5NRK
Security During the First 30 Days; Allen Tough, Ph.D.
Project Cyclops Errata
The 2002 Southeastern VHF Society Conference was held April 25-26 in Oak Ridge Tennessee. Here is a summary of papers presented. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. Cost is $20, plus shipping; ARRL order number: 0-87259-868-3.
24 GHz EME--Conquered, 47 GHz EME--The Next Frontier; Al Ward, W5LUA, and Barry Malowanchuk, VE4MA
Catch a Falling Star...; Shelby Ennis, W8WN
Demystifying the Alford Slot; Ott Fiebel, W4WSR
Polar Mounts for EME Dishes; Dale R. Parfitt, W4OP
Roving 301: Tradeoffs for Roving Fun!; Brian Skutt, ND3F
Long-Boom Yagi Sidelobe Suppression or The Silence of the Lambda; L. B. Cebik; W4RNL
Time, Space and Frequency Diversity above 50 MHz; Doug Smith, KF6DX
Coaxial Cable Primer; Tom Whitted, WA8WZG
Periscope Antenna Systems; Paul Wade, W1GHZ
Multi-Band Microwave Loop Feeds (and Variations); Tom Haddon, K5VH
A High Performance Loop Array System for VHF/UHF Mobile Operations; Tom Haddon, K5VH
Interdigital Filter Design Tables; Reed Fisher, W2CQH
DXing on Six with a Tramp; Dick Hanson, K5AND
AO-40 Telemetry Reception and Decoding; G. Gould Smith, WA4SXM
PSK31 + 2-Meters = Transatlantic Triumph?; Ev Tupis, W2EV
SVHFS Conference Noise Figure Measurement; Fred Runkle, K4KAZ, and Jim Worsham, W4KXY
SVHFS Antenna Gain Measurement; Dale Baldwin, WB0QGH, and Charles Osborne, K4CSO
2002 SVHFS Conference -- Antenna Gain Measurements; Charles S. Osborne, K4CSO
The 2002 Southeastern VHF Society Antenna Range; Charles S. Osborne, K4CSO
Tricks for Doing Antenna Measurements at Home; Charles S. Osborne, K4CSO
The K4UFH Award
2001 SVHFS Conference Banquet--Door Prize Donors
The 36th Conference of the Central States VHF Society was held July 26-28, 2002, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here is a summary of papers presented. Conference Proceedings are available from ARRL. ISBN: 0-87259-871-3; cost is $20, plus shipping; ARRL Order Number 8713.
