On May 6th, we held our first foxhunt-adjacent event at the local makerspace on campus–EnVision. Big shout out to them for letting us borrow their workspace for our event. We are still in the process of getting a space for the club itself. We didn’t get to much foxhunting because the yagi antenna build took longer than expected since most of us haven’t built one before. We did, however, test it a bit from the nearby parking garage.

It was a cool learning experience to see from the NanoVNA antenna analyzer brought by one of our members how the Yagi Antenna was optimized for directional (as seen by the peaks in the photo–the antenna only had a sharp peak at 2 frequencies). We also started to build our transmitter from a relay, Arduino and Baofeng radio (referencing this video on foxhunt transmitters).

Thanks to all those who showed up! We hope to host more events like this in the future–perhaps with more hunting involved.

A couple of days ago, on 4/15, we went up to the roof to install the Comet Antenna. We set up a pulley to transport all the tools up to the antenna outlook. In order to find the length of coax needed for the antenna, we used a handheld spectrum analyzer that Jack brought. It took about 3 hours to install the antenna. Thanks to everyone who volunteered to help!

Hello!

Apologies for the late notice but we will be having our first meeting of the spring quarter today, 4/13 at 6pm in HSS 2025.

We will continue to have weekly meetings on Thursdays at 6pm in HSS 2025 (room may change based on room availability).

These are the planned events for the upcoming spring quarter: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_f1e3f7f6b391a0acdcc20bd1cb299b8c2139001ba51f48efde3ed39131e86b71%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles

We partook in the winter field day along the SIO pier. We managed to hear stations from places as far as Hawaii, Canada, and Utah.

Go to https://winterfieldday.com/ to learn more about winter field day.

Here are some photos 🙂

Upcoming Events:

• (2/13) ARRL School Club Roundup
  • Information about the ARRL School Club Roundup can be found at https://www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup
• (3/04) Event: Ham Radio Merit Badge Outreach (w IEEE)

Upcoming GBM Topics:

• GBM #4: Antenna Building
• GBM#5 Transmitters
• GBM#6 Digital Radio Modes & remote access to the radio in the radio shack setup
• GBM#7 “Foxhunt” Scavenger Hunt
• GBM#8 SSTV & Image Encoding (w demo)

Note: all GBM meeting topics are subject to change.

We welcome anyone who is interested in radios and engineering! You do not have to have a radio license or any knowledge to join. The majority of our announcements are done through our discord server which can be joined here: https://discord.gg/U2Fxj86YXn