Our guest speaker for the May 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 latest article in QST was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna published in March 2017. The DBJ-2 won the Plaque of the Month Award. There are over 30,000 of these antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other half by government and commercial entities. In this month’s presentation, Ed will first review how the original DBJ-1 works and then how he managed to convert the original DBJ-1 into a portable antenna. He will have some limited antennas for sale.
Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to Extra Class (he has a real Extra Class license 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 12 patents and over 40 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 RF design and high speed interface. In his 35 year career, he has done work for Stanford University, National Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Devices, and numerous startup companies in the Silicon Valley.