diff --git a/src/content/pages/pastspeakers.md b/src/content/pages/pastspeakers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52621c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/pages/pastspeakers.md @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +# MicroHAMS Past Speakers (2024–2026) + +*To help inspire what speakers we may invite in 2026, +I used time travel to attempt to reconstruct past speakers going back until 2024. +(But faulty flux capacitors may have impacted the accuracy of time travel.) + +--- + +## 2026 + +### **January** +- Brian — *Modernizing the RF data path and improving your IQ* + +### **February** +- Updates from Hamcation — Scott Honaker, N7SS +- Modernizing Critical Ham Radio Software — Brian Stucker, KB2S + +### **March** +- Kevin — *Meshtastic and Mesh Core with live equipment demo* + +### **April** +- Jason — *GroundWave* + +### **May** +- Conrad Trautmann N2YCH *Station Setup Techniques to Prevent Field Day RFI* + +### **June** +- TBD + +--- + +## 2025 + +### **January** +- Adrian Stimpson, VE7NZ, and Scott VA7SL — *High altitude and “pico” ballooning* + +### **February** +- *Build a Simple Coax Shield “Sniffer” Probe for Detecting & Solving Stray RF on Your Coax & in Your Shack* — Group discussion + +### **March** +- Don Greenbaum, N1DG — *DXpeditioning using a Radio in a Box on remote islands* + +### **April** +- Mark Smith, N6MTS (Halibut Electronics) — *Common mode currents* + +### **May** +- *A Father/Son DXpedition to West Africa* — Angus, KJ7KOJ and Robin, W7YED + +### **June** +- Seapac and other topics (tentative) + +### **July** +- *Get out and have fun this summer: POTA, SOTA and other reasons to go operate portable* — Kevin Samson, KI7DEE + +### **August** +- Summer festive gathering at local brewery — *Black Raven* + +### **September** +- *GNU Radio and IQ signal encoding using SigMF* — Dr. Marc Lichtman + +### **October** +- Crowd‑sourced amateur radio “pro tips” + +### **November** +- *10 Simple ways to improve your shack and operating experience!* — Grant Hopper + +### **December** +- Microhams Holiday Gathering — Various attendees + +--- + +## 2024 + +### **January** +- Brian Stucker, KB2S, and Grant Hopper, KB7WSD — *An Introduction to Digital Modes* + +### **February** +- EME? — + KB7Q — *KISS LDMOS amps for Moonbounce* + +### **March** +- Brian, KB2S — *Automatic Level Control: why it matters to digital transmission performance, and how to do it right* + +### **April** +- *Nine Cool GNURadio Software Defined Radio (SDR) Projects and GNU herding demo* — Don, KE7ARH + +### **May** +- Mike Lewis, K7MDL — *VHF/Microwave station performance improvements for every ham* + +### **June** +- *Self‑healing APRS digipeater/gateway station in a docker container* — Ion, W7ION + +### **July** +- Scott Honaker, N7SS — *The Icom IC‑905: why you might want one*, and hands‑on with the Icom IC‑705 HF/VHF+ portable radio + +### **August** +- Summer festive gathering at local brewery — *Black Raven* + +### **September** +- *Transceiver measures and criteria for ARRL’s Clean Signal Initiative (CSI)* — Rob Sherwood, NC0B + +### **October** +- *H44WA DXpedition to Guadalcanal Island, Solomon Islands (Nov 2023)* — Jack P. + +### **November** +- *Oregon Sat: a new open‑source ground station* — Andrew Greenberg, KD7CJT, Portland State University + +### **December** +- Microhams Holiday Gathering — *Black Raven*, various attendees + +- A **sortable table** for the MicroHAMS site + +Just tell me the format you want.