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Show#	Air Date Segment	Time in Segment	Topics Discussed in Segment

	January 3, 2010 1		SPACE REPORT: The 2015 Japanese Space Agency's Mission. Challenges of maintaining a solar powered satellite. Focused GH signals sent from a satellite. Ionizing the atmosphere from ground antennas. Graceful degradation defined. Old moon bounce techniques vs new moon bounce techniques. N2YJC has 80m mobile antenna that performs better after it rains. M Squared Squalo antennas use in mobile operation.
	2		N2YJC has 80m mobile antenna that performs better after it rains con't Dick: "Read Kraus' Antenna and Propagation Chapter on The Infinitesimal Dipole. Mel shares his HF mobile experiences. Dick asks N2YJC is his 80m mobile antenna has water in its base. (Discussion revisited on 100124tech-002 21:00) Can I use a CB magmount on 10m? Rigs and their SWR self protect mode- are they effective? Can I use a commercial marine antenna for 2m use?
	3		Antenna tips for mobile HT users. Dick: "Plan ahead of time if your car goes into "stuck throttle mode." Things to observe when using an open wire antenna. More about the Toyota recall.
		25:00	THE TECHNET BALUNS DISCUSSION PT3 Feeding the dipole
		33:00	Mel starts his worksheet
		42:30	Definition of "I1" and "I2"
		51:05	The Inverted L mode

	4	00:00	THE TECHNET BALUNS DISCUSSION PT3 cont W4RNL Inverted L Mode experiments.
		09:10	Proper and Improper junctions
		13:40	W4RNL Inverted L Mode experiments cont Antenna designs that influenced Windham antennas and others
		22:29	The use of line isolators
		41:30	Why does my balun fail when I use a tuner? Revisited

	5	00:00	QSOs from 146.850 repeater Long Island NY

	January 10, 2010 1	03:10	Job opportunities for hams at DirectTV.com.
		08:38	www.bytemark.com/products/TLTTheory.htm or use this as a good source for types of baluns used during THE TECHNET BALUN DISCUSSIONS
		15:50	The Lazy 8 Yagi antenna using two phased dipoles
		42:02	Mel shares one of his early homebrew 20m bamboo antennas
		46:37	Dick describes antenna end fire
		50:32	The phasing of two inverted Vs


	2	04:01	Is there an antenna that gives all angles of polarization?
		12:05	How a small circumference, horizontal mounted loop antenna becomes omni directional.
		18:59	Mel's experience with multiple small loop antennas
		26:10	Quadrature phase delay examined.
		28:54	The HSN antenna installation failure.
		42:00	Mel shares his concern over hams who have difficulty getting HF with their antennas.
		58:39	SPACE REPORT: Kempler Space Craft. Spirits wheels now working.

	3	00:00	SPACE REPORT con't
		13:43	THE TECHNET BALUNS DISCUSSION PT4 Use PT4 with this website. Guanella baluns
		20:06	What is the most important function of a 1:1 balun
		46:11	Baluns and common mode impedance.
		48:50	What does balun material actually look like?
		52:30	The 1:4 balun (fig 2)

	4	00:00	THE TECHNET BALUNS DISCUSSION PT4 cont
		00:39	Why turn ratio and voltage is not a factor in transformers.
		06:11	The history of baluns (and ununs)
		09:02	Why balun schematics include numbers and dots.
		28:21	Mel explains how Gerry Civic (sp?) did balun winding
		33:42	Dick: What is the disadvantage of using balun schematic dots?

		5	QSOs from 146.850 repeater Long Island NY

	January 17, 2010 1	00:00	http://www.sterlingengine.com/ good source for alternate energy machines
		18:05	Alternative energy using longwire antennas
		21:03	Sterling Energy Systems has over 600 dishes in TX for alternative energy.
		27:15	Cell tower law suite continues in Bayville, NY and now a town in France follows.
		47:10	Steps required to peer review an experiment.
		53:52	All about Radiax Cable
		55:10	Mel examines Bayville NY's reasoning in rejecting cell phone towers

	2	03:00	Is Radiax the solution to Bayville NY's problem?
		19:40	What happens when the wire is not used on the 3-prong to 2-prong adapter.
		41:05	60Hz hum from ham's TV may be caused by bad cable box grounding. (Discussion revisited on 100124tech-002 30:10)
		46:15	Measuring voltage drops on a wire that leads to a copper pipe.

	3	00:00	Dangers in digging up water pipes that maybe connected to high voltage.
		11:30	Examining telephone pole transformer wire that leads to a house.
		19:10	What happens when one disconnects the neutral from the house's circuit box?
		27:38	Defining the "Dim/Bright" problem
		31:16	Stories of dangerous house wiring
		45:48	SD Wiring explained
		48:55	Transformer Phase A and Phase B

	4	00:05	Four-wire residential wiring systems
		03:27	Measuring transformer phasing and wiring in NYC boroughs.

	January 24, 2010 1	04:33	Hardwired ADT home alarm activated when transmitting on 40m
		33:29	Some suggestions to avoid the ADT alarm problem
		39:26	Looking inside an ADT alarm box and how it works
		25:19	MELS EMAIL: Tuners - how they came to be and how they work

	2	00:50	Is there an novice book on vacuum tubes?
		02:40	Dick explains the basics of a vacuum tube
		06:17	Early vacuum tube text books
		12:40	Mel explains the basics of a vacuum tube
		17:28	The difficulty in switching from transmitting vacuum tubes to solid state
		21:00	N2YJC has solution to mobile antenna that tunes better on 80m when it is wet out revisited (from 100103tech-001).
		26:15	Attaching capacitance hats to the mobile antenna
		30:10	60hz hum coming through TV revisited (from 100117tech-002)

	3	00:00	www.tinyurl/ycbdsfe.com good source for audio samples of 60 cycle hums
		06:10	Another "Dim/Light" problem, this time caused Cablevision
		09:02	Basement grounding rods installation and precautions
		22:16	All about grounding
		37:12	Ground rod clamping
		50:52	Using the correct conduit for grounding
		55:11	Perpetual motion energy

	4	05:15	Dick: YouTube can not guarantee accurate information
		15:10	Free energy may not be free after all
		18:37	Debate over free energy machines

	January 31, 2010 1	03:01	Web cams (Logitech 9000) - a great tool to keeping in touch worldwide
		22;15	Concerned web cam users regarding going over the monthly traffic limit
		31:30	The amount of bandwidth Web cam codecs use
		43:24	High definition web conferencing packages
		50:37	Advances in computer generated graphics and TV screen scanning
		55:38	Perpetual motion machines revisited from 100124-003 55:11

	2	02:40	US DTV standards
		08:16	How IMAX projectors work
		12:02	Computer graphics in the movie Avatar
		15:25	Perpetual motion free energy machines revisited from 100113tech-001 55:38
		48:48	Eric KE2EJ: Is the mass of the universe finite or variable?
		53:45	Dick: What really is an ocean wave?
		57:11	Energy vs particles

	3	00:30	What makes up a magnetic field?
		06:50	Dick explains oscillation by using a California 10Ghz repeater as an example
		15:35	Ham: Will I be able to use an old Yagi on my roof to receive?
		21:07	Will I be able to transmit on this old Yagi roof antenna?
		25:25	The Toyota recall revisited
		47:10	Black hole gravity lensing effect

	4	01:15	SPACE REPORT: The last of the shuttle missions
		17:15	MELS EMAIL: How do you roll a balun THE TECHNET BALUNS DISCUSSION PT5 Guanella webpage pdf
		31:33	Examining the Walt Maxwell balun
		39:21	Why thermalized wire is good for baluns
		41:00	Lou Varney G5RV article good info on RSGB baluns
		47:38	Examining the bazooka balun

	5		QSOs from 146.850 repeater Long Island NY

	February 7, 2010 1	03:49	HHO and free energy
		09:15	Water-powered cars
		25:01	Prius recall due to faulty processor
		27:10	Where we stand with new alternative energy
		35:31	Using kinetic energy-based machine when the power goes out
		42:40	Echo link now available on the iPhone and iTouch
		47:00	Cleaning silver-plated adapter connectors that have turned black.

	2	00:00	Ham talks about an article he wrote about SETI
		09:20	Drakes equation explained
		18:16	US and Russian covert high speed experiments
		25:19	MELS EMAIL: Tuners - how they came to be and how they work
		30:00	Why do some signals become stronger when the tuner is turned off?
		35:09	Where to place a Bird Watt Meter, and what happens to it when the antenna is adjusted.
		55:47	Does an antenna tuner obey conservation of energy?

	3	00:00	How Dick tested the quality of an Anechoic Chamber at Edwards AFB
		03:39	Corrosion vs. oxidation
		14:45	Mystery "Figure 8" cable spotted in tunnel.
		27:05	The use of TDR meters
		31:48	Airport Full Body Scanner safety
		49:10	SPACE REPORT: ISS space walks scheduled
		54:00	Test results of Space Shuttle tile foam

	4	00:00	Ham talks about an article he wrote about SETI
		09:20	Drakes equation explained
		18:16	US and Russian covert high speed experiments
		25:19	MELS EMAIL: Tuners - how they came to be and how they work
		30:00	Why do some signals become stronger when the tuner is turned off?
		35:09	Where to place a Bird Watt Meter, and what happens to it when the antenna is adjusted.
		55:47	Does an antenna tuner obey conservation of energy?


	5		QSOs from 146.850 repeater Long Island NY
	6		QSOs from 146.850 repeater Long Island NY

1284	February 14, 2010 1	06:50	March 2010 QST article on Ground Plane Systems of vertical antennas
		19:10	Does performance improve when you increase the radials?
		22:40	MELS EMAIL: Rods and ground resistance
		29:15	Current buildup and Finite Q
		38:30	Dick: Almost any reasonable passive antenna will obey the Law of Reciprocity
		43:00	Individual atoms that belong to the "Cloud of Electrons"
		44:30	Machines that produce more than they use
		46:50	All about radio frequency biohazard

	2	01:49	Unfounded fears of microwave radiation
		08:09	The effects of fluorescent light flickering
		12:55	Unfounded fears of cell phone RF radiation
		17:50	What effects a human more- fluorescent light flickering or the light transformers?
		26:25	Does a radio wave travel though water, the ground, and space?
		38:36	The Craziness of Propagation
		44:10	The ARRL Handbook - a good source on information on The ANCE Family
		54:13	W2ILP: Are UHF frequencies more harmful than microwaves?

	3	00:00	More discussion on fluorescent lights and their effect on the workplace
		13:12	Microwave RF exposure and its effect on objects ie water and the human bone
		17:15	Examining the "Radiating System"19:05
		19:05	Story of Walt Maxwell adjusting a satellite antenna
		21:47	The testing of the thermal effects of microwave in England
		29:31	Loading coils and antenna patterns
		36:41	K2RIW Yagi impedance matching article on amateurradio.tv homepage good source for impedance matching
		38:00	Ham offers his email for articles on free energy
		49:05	Vortex-based mathematics to be discussed in a future TechNet
		50:50	KC2QIQ Glen Test performed on coax cable, ladder line radiation

	4	09:23	MELS EMAIL: When do you use a tuner and do you don't use one?
		17:20	MELS EMAIL: Can I use a wooden cabinet for a home-brewed tuner?
		22:50	Debate over tuner with a wooden enclosure vs tuner with a metal enclosure
		38:20	MELS EMAIL: A ham bought an old rig that has a variometer- what is that?
		47:38	MELS EMAIL: Why does a mobile antenna with good bandwidth does not put out a great signal?

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