Our guest speaker for the January meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).
Ed's presentation will begin after the meeting opens promptly at 7:00 pm;
the business portion of the meeting will be after his presentation.
As many of you know, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna
that was featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST.
His most recent antenna was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna that was
published in March 2017 QST. The DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band
VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll up
version. The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both
of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF antenna Handbook and also in
the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook. There are over 40,000 of these
antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other
half by government and commercial agencies.
Ed will give a history on how these antennas were developed and the
theory on how and why they work so well. There is no “black magic”
to antennas. He will explain in a non-mathematical manner to convince
you for overall performance and simplicity his approach is one of the most
practical.
Biography:
Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to
Extra Class (when 20 WPM was required ) with his present call of
WB6IQN. He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of
California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco.
A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, he has 12 patents and over 40
published papers and books in the area of communications and integrated
circuit design. Presently, he is employed by the University of
California, Santa Cruz (previously with Berkeley from 1997-2010) as an
instructor teaching graduate classes in Antenna Design, RF design and
high speed interface.
Topic: MARC January Meeting - Ed Fong Guest
Speaker
Time: Jan 17, 2024 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
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