{"id":6971,"date":"2025-09-30T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/?page_id=6971"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:07:29","slug":"test-equipment-for-the-radio-amateur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/test-equipment-for-the-radio-amateur\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Equipment for the Radio Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Presenter:<\/strong><\/span> Steve Yothment W4OGM<\/a><\/p>\n

Steve graduated from Purdue University in 1975 with a BSEE degree.\u00a0 \u00a0He has worked at the following companies, mostly as an RF Engineer:<\/p>\n

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Motorola, Two-Way Products Division<\/li>\n
Magnavox, Government Electronics Division<\/li>\n
Scientific Atlanta\u00a0 (Cable TV Products Engineer)<\/li>\n
Panasonic Automotive (Car Radio Design Engineer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Steve became a ham in 1973 as WN9NWX and was active with the Purdue University Amateur Radio Club (W9YB).\u00a0 \u00a0He has also held call letters of WB9NWX, WD9AVB, WD0HGB, and W4OGM.\u00a0 Steve is also the current FCARC Club Treasurer.<\/p>\n
Presenter\u2019s Notes;\u00a0 Maybe the title is a bit facetious, because I don\u2019t expect hams\u00a0to buy a lot of test equipment.\u00a0 The fact is that we don\u2019t even need the\u00a0old-fashioned idea of a bench full of test equipment.\u00a0 There are much\u00a0less expensive options available today.\u00a0 Much of the equipment that we\u00a0already have can be used for testing our radios with good success.\u00a0 We\u00a0can also download free PC or cellphone software to provide many\u00a0functions, like an audio generator, audio analyzer, or oscilloscope.\u00a0 \u00a0Modern SDRs provide a frequency spectrum display and other features that can substitute for a Spectrum Analyzer and Modulation Analyzer.\u00a0 \u00a0I\u00a0plan to show how we can do measurements of radio performance with\u00a0inexpensive tools that we probably already have, using free software to\u00a0make it all happen.<\/p>\n
I invite you to bring your 2-m HTs to the meeting and we can measure FM modulation level with simple equipment that I will have at the meeting.<\/p>\n
Links:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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Presenter: Steve Yothment W4OGM Steve graduated from Purdue University in 1975 with a BSEE degree.\u00a0 \u00a0He has worked at the following companies, mostly as an RF Engineer: Motorola, Two-Way Products Division Magnavox, Government Electronics Division Scientific Atlanta\u00a0 (Cable TV Products Engineer) Panasonic Automotive (Car Radio Design Engineer) Steve became a ham in 1973 as WN9NWX … Continue reading Test Equipment for the Radio Amateur<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6971","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6971\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonemountainhamfest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}