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The Technical Program consisting of presentations
is the meat of the conference. The interesting presentations
usually expand horizons, motivate attendees, and share knowledge.
The variety and depth of talks this year were outstanding.
What's great about a conference is that
presenters and authors can be engaged for expanded discussion
in hallways or the Hospitality Suite.
A listing of the presentations is below.
Some of the talks can be found in the conference Proceedings available from the ARRL.
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 photo ©2005 Ken Wyatt WA6TTYPresident Lauren Libby WØLD welcomes attendees to the technical program
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One of the highlights of the
VHF/UHF/SHF year was the first EME contacts on 47GHz
by Al Ward W5LUA, Barry Malowanchuk VE4MA, Gary Lauterbach
AD6FP, and Sergey Zhutyaev RW3BP. W5LUA and VE4MA took turns
telling us about the different challenges they faced and how
they were overcome. Surely, transmit power and receive noise
figure, were important. But several db of capability were
gained by software that assisted with encoding and decoding
of the transmitted signal. To overcome the challenges took
time, effort, and creativity. Each earned the reward of
completing 47GHz EME contacts.
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photo ©2005 Ken Wyatt WA6TTYW5LUA and VE4MA presented about the first ever 47GHz EME contacts
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photo ©2005 Ken Wyatt WA6TTYAndy KØSM/2 teaches about Rainscatter and his
Rainscatter! program
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photo ©2005 Ken Wyatt WA6TTYDr. Robert Suding WØLMD presented about dishes for satellites
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