FCARC July 2025 Club Meeting on 7/31/25 - Dual band Antenna Talk with Dr. Ed Fong, WB6IQN
Meeting Date Thursday 7/31/25 @ 7pm
Join us for the in-person meeting of the Fayette County Amateur Radio Club on Thursday 7/31/25 @ 7pm. All are welcome to attend.
The location and time are same as always:
Time: 7pm EDT
Location: Fayette County Emergency Operations Center at 110 Volunteer Way, Fayetteville, GA.
Topic: Dual band Antenna Talk
Presenter: Dr. Ed Fong, WB6IQN
Presenter Bio:
Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to Extra Class (when 20 WPM was required ) with his present call of WB6IQN. He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco. A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, he has 13 patents and over 50 published papers and books in the area of communications and integrated circuit design. Presently, he is employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz (previously with Berkeley from 1997-2010) as an instructor teaching graduate classes in Antenna Design, RF design and high speed interface.
Presentation Brief:
Our guest speaker for the July meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN). As many of you know, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna that was featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST. His most recent antenna was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna that was published in March 2017 QST. The DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll up version. The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF antenna Handbook and also in the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook. There are over 40,000 of these antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other half by government and commercial agencies.
Ed will give a history on how these antennas were developed and the theory on how and why they work so well. There is no “black magic” to antennas. He will explain in a non-mathematical manner to convince you for overall performance and simplicity his approach is one of the most practical.
Meeting Location
The meeting will be held at the Fayette County Emergency Operations Center at 110 Volunteer Way, Fayetteville, GA.
The club meeting will also be live streamed if you are not able to make it in person.
Zoom Meeting Details
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2558946756?pwd=d2NqVDVDSmVqRVM2VnpSNVgyZTF5UT09&omn=88631634863
Meeting ID: 255 894 6756
Passcode: 654863
<optional> There will be an optional Eating Before the Meeting starting at 5:00pm at Applebee’s in Fayetteville. No RSVP needed.
The street address is:
792 Glynn St N, Fayetteville, GA 30214
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Join us for the in-person meeting of the Fayette County Amateur Radio Club on Thursday 7/31/25 @ 7pm. All are welcome to attend.
The location and time are same as always:
Time: 7pm EDT
Location: Fayette County Emergency Operations Center at 110 Volunteer Way, Fayetteville, GA.
Topic: Dual band Antenna Talk
Presenter: Dr. Ed Fong, WB6IQN
Presenter Bio:
Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to Extra Class (when 20 WPM was required ) with his present call of WB6IQN. He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco. A Life Senior Member of the IEEE, he has 13 patents and over 50 published papers and books in the area of communications and integrated circuit design. Presently, he is employed by the University of California, Santa Cruz (previously with Berkeley from 1997-2010) as an instructor teaching graduate classes in Antenna Design, RF design and high speed interface.
Presentation Brief:
Our guest speaker for the July meeting will be Ed Fong (WB6IQN). As many of you know, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna that was featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST. His most recent antenna was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna that was published in March 2017 QST. The DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll up version. The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF antenna Handbook and also in the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook. There are over 40,000 of these antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other half by government and commercial agencies.
Ed will give a history on how these antennas were developed and the theory on how and why they work so well. There is no “black magic” to antennas. He will explain in a non-mathematical manner to convince you for overall performance and simplicity his approach is one of the most practical.
Meeting Location
The meeting will be held at the Fayette County Emergency Operations Center at 110 Volunteer Way, Fayetteville, GA.
The club meeting will also be live streamed if you are not able to make it in person.
Zoom Meeting Details
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2558946756?pwd=d2NqVDVDSmVqRVM2VnpSNVgyZTF5UT09&omn=88631634863
Meeting ID: 255 894 6756
Passcode: 654863
<optional> There will be an optional Eating Before the Meeting starting at 5:00pm at Applebee’s in Fayetteville. No RSVP needed.
The street address is:
792 Glynn St N, Fayetteville, GA 30214
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