W5ECO - Houston ECHO Society - Meetings

Because amateur radio is such a broad hobby you will find ECHO members involved with just about every aspect of it. Besides repeaters ECHO participates in various contests such as the ARRL field day and provides communications for the Tour DuRouge bike ride. Members participate in many other area public service events. As for personal hobbies, members are involved in everything from kit building to WSPR to FT8 to raspberry PI to helping (elmering) newcomers. Everyone is welcome to attend the club meetings and are encouraged to join in on the fun.

• Next club meeting -- The next Houston ECHO Society club meeting will be Monday, October 12 at the American Red Cross at 7 p.m., with pre-meeting dinner at 5 p.m. at Goode Company Taqueria, Westpark at Kirby. The presentation will be by David Holden, WJ9O and should be both in person and on zoom. He will talk about the ham radio sub-hobby of fox hunting. His amateur setup includes a homebrew 40 - 20 -15 - 10 fan dipole antenna up about     45’ between two pine trees for HF.  Also, ahomebrew J-pole at about 25 feet for VHF/UHF.  He uses a  homebrew Yagi for Fox Hunting, a loop antenna for Fox Hunting, and  a homebrew Yagi for satellite work. As you can see, he likes to make  his antenna equipment. Fox hunting in ham radio is the hobby/sport of using radio direction‑finding (RDF) techniques to locate a hidden transmitter (“the fox”). The core idea is simple: someone hides a small low‑power transmitter, it emits periodic signals and participants use directional antennas and receivers to track it.
• ECHO is always looking for amateur radio presentations. If you have a specialty contact martingblaise at gmail dot com. Presentations can be in person or by ZOOM.