Club Meeting Sept. 20, 2024

Sept. Meeting – Ed Fong on J-Pole Collinear Gain

 Our guest speaker for the September  meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).  His talk this month will be the DBJ-UHF  5dB gain base antenna (US patent – 2,124,424). A GMRS version is also available. This antenna was featured in CQ Magazine in Summer of 2012. The DBJ-UHF is a highly effective 5dB base antenna at only 37 inches tall and no radials.  There have been over 8,000 sold since its introduction ten years ago.  It requires no radials and is a DC shorted design so no lightning arrestor is needed.
Biography –  Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN.  He later upgraded to Extra Class (with full 20 WPM CW)  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 (previously at Berkeley and presently at Santa Cruz- Silicon Valley) as an instructor teaching graduate classes in RF design, antenna design and High Speed interface design.  During his 40 year career he has performed worked for Motorola, National Semiconductor, Phillips Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices.”