Aurora 2003 and Antenna building:
This page has some pictures and such on the Aurora 2003 conference and a small antenna party a bunch of us had this spring. First off, the Aurora conference is a weak signal VHF and up based event...for more information on it and the group that holds it go to the NLRS link on this site. They usually hold a antenna test range for 2 meters and above in the morning. There were also noise figure testing and a small swapmeet. There were various talks given about misc. projects and ideas. For example, Charlie (N0AKC) gave a talk on sequencers and Bill (K0AWU) gave a talk on Amplifiers, among many others.
I learned a lot, and met a whole lot of new people, got a whole lot of ideas, and had one of my antennas tested out. Prior to Aurora, we had a small antenna building party at Charlie's house. We ended up tuning a few homebrew antennas and constructing a few commercial and homebrew antennas for the VHF and up bands. Below are a few of the pictures from these events...and one bonus picture of KB9PJL pretending to be Frank Zappa.
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1. and 2. Darrell (KB9LVK) with the 12 element 2-Meter on the test range
3. Me helping (I think) with test measurements..*L*
4. Charlie (N0AKC) on the range testing his 6 element 2-meter
5. Charlie doing his presentation
6. Charlie putting together a yagi
7. Me....doing the drill press work.
8. KB9PJL apparently in Summer Style...either that or he spent too much time on 6 meters the night before and he fell asleep with Frank Zappa going through his head.
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