West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group, Inc.
Where we have fun, play radio, and keep the squelch loose!
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, May 24, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
We have some exciting news so stay tuned!
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Want to be involved in our organization or participate in our discussions? Join us here – https://wpbarg.com/phpbb/
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be discussing our upcoming activities, including our 85th Anniversary at the Cox Science Center on April 27, between 10:00 and 2:00. That’s going to be a shindig!
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be discussing our upcoming activities, including Saturday in the Park on March 30, our 85th Anniversary being held at the Cox Science Center on April 27th, and Field Day in June. We’ve got some exciting stuff on the horizon!
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Want to be involved in our organization or participate in our discussions? Join us here – https://wpbarg.com/phpbb/
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, February 28, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be discussing our upcoming activities, including Field Day in June.
Ed, WX2R, the Public Information Officer for HamSCI, will be our guest speaker. Ed is an engaging speaker, and I am looking forward to his presentation.
Ed will be reviewing the HamSCI Project for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. After this solar eclipse, the next total solar eclipse that can be seen from the contiguous United States will be 20 years from now, on Aug. 23, 2044!
Amateur radio operators will have an opportunity to be a part of this science project. This will be covered Wednesday, including how we can be a part of this project by contributing data to help further our understanding of sun-ionosphere-earth relationships.
Following universities will also be participating in this project:
The University of Scranton (W3USR) (Lead Institution)
Case Western Reserve University (W8EDU)
New Jersey Institute of Technology (K2MFF)
The University of Alabama
Dartmouth College
Montclair State University
Rice University (W5YG)
HamSCI is affiliated with The University of Scranton, Department of Physics and Engineering, and is led by Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell, W2NAF
HamSCI has membership affiliations with several universities, including Dartmouth College, Embry-Riddle, MIT, Rice University, Virginia Tech and several others. From their website, “Advance scientific research and understanding through amateur radio activities.” More information can be found here – https://hamsci.org/
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Want to be involved in our organization or participate in our discussions? Join us here – https://wpbarg.com/phpbb/
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, at 7:00 p.m.
This is our first meeting of the year, so we have some exciting things to cover.
We will begin this meeting with our presentation first. We are excited to announce that our guest speaker for our January 24th meeting will be Dr. Ed Fong (WB6IQN). Everyone is welcome! After the remote presentation, we will be holding an interactive Q&A with Dr Fong. The presentation will begin promptly at 7:00 p.m., so please get there early.
More information on that is here – https://wpbarg.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=440
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
On behalf of the WPBARG Board of Directors, we would like to take a moment to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
Last month we discussed and celebrated our success for the year. As we embark on this new year, we will continue building on our past achievements with a forward look on new opportunities and ways to have fun. I more than look forward to the success of this coming year, I am excited for it!
We kick off our first meeting of the year on the 24th, where we are excited to announce our special guest speaker, Dr. Ed Fong. I have spent a fair amount of time communicating with Dr. Fong, who will insist you call him, Ed. Back in October, I had the privilege of a rather lengthy phone conversation with him. He is brilliant and a very good communicator.
Dr. Fong will join us with a remote presentation on antenna principles, including the J-pole antenna. We will have an interactive Q&A after the presentation with Dr Fong.
Dr. Fong holds a BSEE and MSEE from UC at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco. At the University of California, he teaches graduate classes in High Speed Interface Design and RF Design. He holds 12 patents and has several dozen published papers. His call is WB6IQN, and was first licensed in 1968.
After that, we will have a short business meeting where we will install our new officers and thank our previous.
Then, the following Saturday, the 24th, we have our monthly Saturday in The Park event, which coincides with Winter Field Day. We are currently working on a Mini Field Day for Saturday, so stay tuned for more information on that!
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
More discussions can be found here – https://wpbarg.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=5
This month, our monthly meeting will NOT be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Due to Thanksgiving, in November, we move the meeting back a week. Our monthly meeting this month will be held on November 15 at 7:00 p.m. We will also be moving back our Saturday in the Park to November 18th.
At the meeting, we will be reviewing this past year, the success we enjoyed and the fun we had doing it, and we will be looking at what’s ahead for the coming year. We will be holding our elections, so there may not be time for a presentation, but maybe we can get a short one in there if time permits.
This month is the last meeting of the year. December is our Holiday Party – December 13 at 6:30. We will be having it at the same place we did last year. More information to follow.
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be following up on our ongoing projects, including the Titanic display, our custom developed curriculum for Palm Beach County schools (that has now been requested by a homeschooling group), discussing how it went at JOTA and our upcoming WPBARG Fall Picnic/Saturday in the Park.
At our last meeting, Dave and Jim presented the spark gap transmitter and the membership was very excited about this project. Dave then found himself in an impromptu role as a docent. He was so good that this became an unplanned presentation, bumping our planned presentation of Winlink Global Radio Email, hosted by Marcos. We will have that Winlink presentation at this meeting.
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be getting a first look at our spark gap transmitter project that Dave and Jim have been working diligently on. Dave’s talent and passion is far reaching. Combine that with Jim’s experience serving with the elite Seabees, and these two guys can build anything!
The spark gap transmitter will be available for the Science Center’s Titanic display and other projects we have in the hopper, including with Palm Beach County schools.
Last Friday, at our Youth Outreach meeting, we got a look at a PowerPoint presentation of the curriculum created by Cindy and Randy that we will be using in Palm Beach County schools, and it is fantastic! We will be talking more about that.
As the Jamboree On The Air Camporee 2023 approaches, we will be providing a quick review of those dates and activities for next month.
We have been so busy with these upcoming projects that we didn’t have time for presentations at our meetings. We are getting back to our presentations, which this month will be hosted by Marcos. Marcos has put together a presentation on Winlink Global Radio Email, and, personally, I’m really looking forward to that!
We welcome everyone to our meetings and activities, members and non-members, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org
Our monthly meeting, held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, is Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 7:00 p.m.
We will be accepting orders for the WPBARG shirts, covering our two upcoming projects for October, and more! Lots of exciting stuff on the horizon!
We welcome all to our meetings and activities, whether licensed or not!
Location:
Cox Science Center and Aquarium
4801 Dreher Trail North, West Palm Beach, FL 33405
https://www.coxsciencecenter.org