{"id":8658,"date":"2024-09-16T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:09:46","slug":"club-meeting-sept-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/8658","title":{"rendered":"Club Meeting Sept. 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sept. Meeting &#8211; Ed Fong on J-Pole Collinear Gain<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Our guest speaker for the September\u00a0 meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).\u00a0\u00a0His talk this month will be the DBJ-UHF\u00a0 5dB gain base antenna (US patent \u2013 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.\u00a0\u00a0There have been over 8,000 sold since its introduction ten years ago.\u00a0\u00a0It requires no radials and is a DC shorted design so no lightning arrestor is needed.<br><strong>Biography &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN.\u00a0 He later upgraded to Extra Class (with full 20 WPM CW)\u00a0 with his present call of WB6IQN.\u00a0 He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 During his 40 year career he has performed worked for Motorola, National Semiconductor, Phillips Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices.&#8221;<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. Meeting &#8211; Ed Fong on J-Pole Collinear Gain \u00a0Our guest speaker for the September\u00a0 meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).\u00a0\u00a0His talk this month will be the DBJ-UHF\u00a0 5dB gain base antenna (US patent \u2013 2,124,424). A GMRS version is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/8658\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Club Meeting Sept. 20, 2024<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,31,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-meeting","category-current","category-september-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}