3 **Thursday, 16 February, 7:30 PM** Dolley Madison Library, McLean: (Note: Third Thursday). Jerry Wolczanski, KI4IO, will describe the high performance Low Frequency (LF) receiver he designed and built as well as his vintage German Torn E.b regenerative LF receiver. Jerry has logged many LF Non Directional Beacons (NDBs) with a very interesting LF antenna he designed.
7 **Thursday, January 12** Greg LeSage, N6LYU, made a presentation on performance modeling of the Terminated Folded Dipole.
9 **Thursday, December 15** AMRAD's Annual Meeting. Look for the minutes of this meeting in the Jan-Feb 2012 issue of the AMRAD Newsletter. Elections were held at the meeting. Directors Bill Fenn, N4TS; Frank Gentges, KØBRA; and Paul Rinaldo, W4RI were re-elected for two-year terms, as were Alternates Paul Mooney, K4KRE and Rob Seastrom, AI4UC for one-year terms.
13 **February 4** Virginia State Convention (Frostfest 2012), Richmnd, VA, www.frostfest.com
15 **February 4** South Carolina State Convention, Ladson, SC, www.wa4usn.org
17 **February 26** Vienna Wireless Society Winterfest, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php
19 **March 10&11** 2012 Charlotte Hamfest and ARRL Roanoke Division Convention, http://www.w4bfb.org
21 **March 17** Charleston WV Area Hamfest, Charleston, WV, www.w8gk.org
23 **March 31** Greater Baltimore Hamboree & Computerfest, Timonium, MD, www.gbhc.org.