Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Time:  Open chat, 6:00 PM --- Meeting: 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Open chat after the meeting, too.

Web Meeting Info: For Zoom meeting information, please contact the NCCC Secretary at  secretary.nccc@gmail.com

Program:
"Efficient Antennas for Limited Space" by Tom Schiller, N6BT

Tom Schiller, N6BT QTH: Kingman, AZ

Founder, Force 12, Inc. and Next Generation Antennas; 33 years of design and production, shipped >27,000 antennas (amateur, commercial, military); antenna research includes using drones since 2014 for empirical testing of verticals on flat ground(s), salt water and adjacent to sloping ground (discovered launch angle shift); empirical comparisons of current returns and current balance; developed first trapless triband Yagi (C-3/C-3S, 1991, patented feed system), trapless 4 & 5-band single feed-line Yagis (XR-5), larger trapless tri-band Yagis (C- 19XR, C-31XR, C-49XR); first 50-ohm direct-feed Yagis (Magnum 620, 1993); 80/75 mtr Yagis and 160 rotatable dipoles; single & multi-band (no-trap) verticals: ZR series -- VDA & SVDA -- Sigma series (“I” shaped, HF-VHF-UHF); Bravo series (latest V-8 and DX-8 for R.I.B.) -- VOR (vertical open ring, single & multi-band); “Gull Wing” radials; low profile towers and trailers; speaker at more than 30 conventions, in-person and ZOOM; author, Array of Light (Four Editions); co-founder of the NCJ; contributing editor to 25th Edition A.R.R.L. Antenna Book; articles in QST and NCJ; co-founder of Team Vertical with K2KW (>25 World Records); several patents related to wireless communications; licensed 1959, ARRL Life Member, CWops #281; contester (member of AOCC, Hualapai ARC, former NCCC, Paso Robles ARC, Mother Lode DX/CC, MWA); DXpeditions plus mobile and portable. 

Greg, KK6PXT
NCCC Secretary