### Upcoming Meetings

**Thursday, June 14, 7:30 PM** Dolley Madison Library, McLean: Richard O'Neil will make a presentation on How to Make a Crystal Set: 1) Circuits: - Antenna - Tapped Coil, Series Coil & Capacitor, Tuggle, 2) Variable Capacitors - SLF, SLC, Variants Insulation - Hard Rubber, Phenolic, Ceramic, Styrene, Teflon 3) Coils: High Q - Coil Form Materials, L/D Ratio, Wire Gauge, Wire AC Resistance, Wire Spacing, Litz Wire 4) Diodes - Mineral Crystals, Germanium Diodes, Schottky Diodes 5) Impedance Matching Transformer: Specs, Sources 6) Phones: Crystal, High Impedance Magnetic, Balanced Armature 7) DXing: What to Expect

 
### Recent Meetings

**Thursday, May 10**  Members of the Montgomery Amateur Radio Club (MARC) Kevin Whipp, W3KDW, David W2LNX, and Vic WB2U, told us about their work experimenting with the Linksys WRT54GL, running HSMM-MESH™ software from http://www.hsmm-mesh.org/            

**Thursday,  April 19** ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, reviewed the ITU 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference and the outlook for a new domestic allocation at 472-479 kHz.

**Thursday, March 8** Terry McCarty, WA5NTI, provided a view of his automated his ham station with a PC to make working, logging, and QSLing DX stations easy. 
  
### Upcoming Events

**May 27** Memorial Day Hamfest, West Friendship, MD, www.marylandfm.org

**June 10** Manassas Hamfest & Amateur Radio Show, Ole' Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club, www.w4ovh.org

**June 23-24** ARRL Field Day http://www.arrl.org

**August 5** 2012, Berryville Hamfest, Berryville, VA, www.w4rkc.org/hamfest

**September 21-23** ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), Atlanta at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel. July 31 is the paper submission deadline. Please send papers to Maty Weinberg, ARRL HQ by mail or e-mail maty@arrl.org. 

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