-### Upcoming Meetings
+#Upcoming Meetings
-**Thursday, March 8, 7:30 PM** Dolley Madison Library, McLean: Terry McCarty, WA5NTI, will tell us how he has automated his ham station with a PC to make working, logging, and QSLing DX stations easy.
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-**Thursday, April 19, 7:30 PM** Dolley Madison Library, McLean: (NOTE: Third Thursday) To be announced.
+**Thursday, June 13, 7:30 PM, <a href="http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/dm/">Dolley Madison Library, McLean, VA.</a>** Terry McCarty, WA5NTI, will make a presentation on the JT65 weak signal digital soundcard mode. JT65 can decode signals many decibels below the noise floor making an exception to the old rule “if you can’t hear them, you can’t work them.” Terry has racked up an impressive list of contacts on nearly every band. The mode was developed by Joe Taylor, K1JT as an offshoot to his WSJT weak signal mode widely used in moonbounce contacts. Although JT65 was originally intended for troposcatter and Earth-Moon-Earth paths, Terry is one of the pioneers in using it for low power HF contacts. Terry will tell us where to get the free software, how to configure it, and what you can expect in a contact.
-### Recent Meetings
-**Thursday, 16 February** Jerry Wolczanski, KI4IO, described 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.
-For those who may be interested follow this URL to a video of this meeting:
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-http://www.justin.tv/amrad01/b/308797384
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-Bill, N4TS
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-**Thursday, January 12** Greg LeSage, N6LYU, made a presentation on performance modeling of the Terminated Folded Dipole.
-### Upcoming Events
+#Recent Meetings
+May 9, Karl Berger, W4KRL, shared his adventure exploring the possibilities for using the Arduino microcontroller in amateur radio projects. Karl set out a few months ago to make a stand-alone touch screen display for a portable antenna analyzer. He broadened his objective to include a flexible graphic display system that a ham can adapt to station control, test instruments and data logging. Along the way, he overcame challenges in converting his program from “in line” coding to the “object oriented” style and solving unexpected problems with hardware control.
-**February 26** Vienna Wireless Society Winterfest, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php
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-**March 10&11** 2012 Charlotte Hamfest and ARRL Roanoke Division Convention, http://www.w4bfb.org
+April 11, Ron Payne, WA6YOU, demonstrated how to build UHF Yagi antennas for receiving off-air DTV stations, or, for any UHF band application. Ron demonstrated his method of building antennas using spun copper wire for the antenna elements and how to get great results with low cost construction.
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+March 14, Andrea Hartlage, KG4IUM, former Vice Director ARRL Southeastern Division, was our guest speaker. She touched on two topics: "How to Involve Youth in Ham Radio and A Look Inside the ARRL Board Room.” She recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology and is now located in the Washington area.
-**March 17** Charleston WV Area Hamfest, Charleston, WV, www.w8gk.org
+#Upcoming Events
-**March 31** Greater Baltimore Hamboree & Computerfest, Timonium, MD, www.gbhc.org.
+**May 17, 18, 19, Dayton Hamvention™** Hara Arena. <a href="http://www.hamvention.net">www.hamvention.net.</a>
-**April 29** Springfest, Chesapeake, VA, Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service
-www.W4CAR.org
+**June 9, Manassas Hamfest** Prince William County Fairgrounds, Manassas, VA
+<a href="http://manassashamfest.org/"> http://manassashamfest.org</a> Ole Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club.
-**May 18-20** Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, OH, Dayton Amateur Radio Association,
-www.hamvention.org/index.php. AMRAD will be there.
+**August 4, Berryville Hamfest ** Berryville, VA, <a href="http://w4rkc.org/hamfest"> http://w4rkc.org/hamfest</a> Shenandoah Valley Amateur Radio Club.
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