Monday Overdrive for January 27th, 2025

January 27, 2025Each week so much compelling content is considered for Amateur Radio Weekly but there’s always a handful of great links that just can’t fit. These are the links that didn’t make it into issue 366 of Amateur Radio Weekly.

• An Off-Center Fed Sleeve Dipole
  A Sleeve Dipole is a cunning idea that employs the Skin Effect to achieve a physically end-fed, but electrically center-fed dipole antenna.
  Ham Radio Outside the Box
• Radio Magic on a Cold Winter’s Night
  A January FM E-Skip opening after midnight that was so unusual.
  RadioWorld
• January VHF Single Op Portable
  Freezing Temps, Cold & Cruel Propagation.
  K5ND
• Locating an Intermittent Interferer with a KrakenSDR
  KrakenSDR is our 5-channel coherent radio based on RTL-SDRs, and it can be used for applications like radio direction finding.
  RTL-SDR
• This antenna cost me pennies
  All of the parts for my 10 meter J-Pole came out of the scrap bin of parts that I’ve collected over the years.
  KB9VBR

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Southeastern VHF Conference 2025 Announcement & Call for Papers

January 24, 2025The following is a press release from the Southeastern VHF Conference:

Southeastern VHF Conference 2025 Announcement & Call For Papers

Quality Inn, 3095 Wilma Rudolph Blvd, Clarksville, TN 37040

April 4th and 5th, 2025

Papers and presentations are solicited on both the technical and operational aspects of VHF, UHF and Microwave weak signal amateur radio. Some suggested areas of interest are:

• Transmitters, Receivers, Transverters
• RF Power Amplifiers, RF Low Noise Preamplifiers
• Antennas
• Construction Projects
• Test Equipment and Station Accessories
• Station Design and Construction
• Contesting, Roving, DX-peditions
• EME, Propagation (Sporadic E, Meteor Scatter, Troposphere Ducting, etc.)
• Digital Modes, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Software Defined Radio
• (SDR) Amateur Satellites, Amateur Television

In general papers and presentations on non-weak signal related topics such as FM repeaters and packet will not be accepted but exceptions may be made if the topic is related to weak signal. For example, a paper or presentation on the use of FM simplex in contests or on the use of APRS to track rovers during contests would be considered.

Formats:
All submissions for publication in the proceedings should be in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) formats. Submissions for presentation at the conference should be in Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx) format and delivered at the conference on a USB memory stick. Please understand that your PowerPoint Slide presentation will not be accepted to be published in the proceedings; only meaningful text will be published in the proceedings, not slides that need description for understanding.

Paper:
Size should be 81⁄2 x 11-inches.

Margins:
Top and sides should be 0.75 inches; bottom must be 1 inch.

Font:
You may choose your font, however, try and use standard fonts. The font should be clean and easy-to-read 12 pt.

Layout:
Either a one or two-column format.

Page numbers:
Do not include page numbers.

Headers/Footers:
Do not include Headers and/or Footers.

Drawings:
Drawings should be embedded in the files. Place them where you’d like them to appear.

Photos:
Color or black-and-white digital images if utilized should be embedded in text files. Place them where you’d like them to appear.

Printing:
We print what we receive. We do not copy edit (but will correct something if we notice it – or if you notice it and let us know). We try to make all papers somewhat uniform, but we do not rework each article. Page numbers are added as we prepare the files for our printer.

The deadline for the submission of papers and presentations is February 15, 2025.

Please indicate when you submit your paper or presentation if you plan to attend the conference and present your paper in person or if you are submitting solely for publication.

Papers and presentations are being handled by Mike Stipick, KC4RI, and should be sent to: KCRI@ATT.net. Mike may be contacted at the same email address if you have any questions.

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