W5ECO - Houston ECHO Society - Presentation Ideas

Amateur Radio Club meeting presentation ideas – compiled by Marty Blaise, AG5T

Original list compiled May 6, 2019 – in alphabetical order – please feel free to add to the list. If you know of an expert in any of these topics, let us know.

• Antenna analyzers
• Antenna theory
• ARRL Traffic Handling
• Broadcast engineer – from am, fm etc. radio
• Build a basic dipole antenna
• Coax – what to use, where to get, etc.
• Contest logging program comparisons
• Cruise Ship ham radio
• CW - tips to get going - practice software, keys, paddles, operating
• Digital Operations including FT8
• Direction finding - RFI and fox hunting
• DMR Radio
• DXpeditions
• Echo Link and D-star - what is it and why do I need it
• Elmering newcomers to the hobby
• EmComm training
• HF Propagation softwares
• High altitude balloons
• Houston QRP Club
• How you got started in the radio hobby
• Jpole antennas
• Logging Software comparisons
• Mounbounce
• MS150 bike-a-thon
• NOAA Weather Satellite Reception and Decoding
• NVIS antennas
• PIC programming
• Portable antenna projects - theory and make and take
• Portable power sources - generators, batteries, solar
• Protocol
• Quagi Antenna - What is it and how do I build one
• Raspberry PI for ham radio uses
• Repeaters – what makes them tick
• RF Safety
• Satellite Operations
• Scanners for hearing police and fire, you’ll need P25, etc.
• Software defined radio
• Soldering techniques
• Texas QSO Party
• Tower and tower climbing safety
• Using antenna modeling software
• Vertical antennas and grounding systems
• Web resources for Hams

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