-### Upcoming Meetings
+#Upcoming Meetings
-**Thursday, January 12, 7:30 PM** Greg LeSage will be our guest speaker at the Dolley Madison Library in McLean. His topic is performance modeling of the Terminated Folded Dipole.
+**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.
-**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.
-### Recent Meetings
-**Thursday, 15 December** 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.
-**Thursday, November 10, 7:30 PM** Dr. Michael King talked on hardware design for Software Defined Radio systems.
+#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.
-### Upcoming Events
+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.
-**January 14** Greenwood Hamfest, Greenwood, SC, www.w4gwd.org
+#Upcoming Events
-**January 14** Winston-Salem FirstFest 2012, http://FirstFest2012.w4nc.org
+**May 17, 18, 19, Dayton Hamvention™** Hara Arena. <a href="http://www.hamvention.net">www.hamvention.net.</a>
-**February 4** Virginia State Convention (Frostfest 2012), Richmnd, VA, www.frostfest.com
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-**February 4** South Carolina State Convention, Ladson, SC, www.wa4usn.org
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-**February 26** Vienna Wireless Society Winterfest, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA, http://www.viennawireless.org/winterfest.php
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-**March 17** Charleston WV Area Hamfest, Charleston, WV, www.w8gk.org
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-**March 31** Greater Baltimore Hamboree & Computerfest, Timonium, MD, www.gbhc.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.
+**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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