{"id":9517,"date":"2025-07-30T20:15:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:15:24","slug":"club-meeting-aug-15-collinear-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/9517","title":{"rendered":"Club Meeting Aug 15 &#8211; Collinear Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Collinear Talk<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Our guest speaker for the August meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).&nbsp;&nbsp;His talk this month will be the DBJ-GMRS 5dB gain base antenna (US patent \u2013 2,124,424). A HAM version is also available. This antenna was featured in CQ Magazine in Summer of 2012. The DBJ-GMRS is a highly effective 5dB base antenna at only 37 inches tall and no radials.&nbsp;&nbsp;There have been over 8,000 sold since its introduction ten years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;It requires no radials and is a DC shorted design so no lightning arrestor is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed will give a history on how these antennas were developed and the theory on how and why they work so well.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no \u201cblack magic\u201d to antennas.&nbsp;&nbsp;He will explain in a non-mathematical manner to convince you for overall performance and simplicity his approach is one of the most practical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SCCARC Meets at 7:00PM, on the THIRD FRIDAY of the each month (except December). We also host the traditional zoom meeting at the same time.<br>Location:&nbsp; La Posada Retirement Community Lounge<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/search\/609+Frederick+St.,+Santa+Cruz,+CA?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">609 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, CA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collinear Talk Our guest speaker for the August meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN).&nbsp;&nbsp;His talk this month will be the DBJ-GMRS 5dB gain base antenna (US patent \u2013 2,124,424). A HAM version is also available. This antenna was featured in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/archives\/9517\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Club Meeting Aug 15 &#8211; Collinear Talk<\/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":[31,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-july-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517","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=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9518,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k6bj.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}