Past Presentations

Past Ham Radio University Presentations – last updated January 16, 2024
This year’s presentations will be posted in January 2023 after the event
– Registration for this year’s forums will open in December!
Videos of some of the forums from past years are available at our Ham Radio University YouTube page

Year Forum Description Moderator Presentation Link
2024 Parks on the Air Dennis Boye AH2O HRU2024-POTA.pptx
2024 Basics of HF operating Mel Granick KS2G HRU2024-Basics-of-HF-Operating.pdf
2024 Contesting – Everything You Need To Know Mel Granick KS2G HRU2024-Contesting.pdf
2024 Practical Antennas Neil Heft KC2KY HRU2024-PracticalAntennas.pdf
2024 Anatomy of a VHF/UHF Repeater Site George Sullivan WB2IKT HRU2024-RepeaterBasics.pdf
2024 Building your first HF station Neil Heft KC2KY HRU2024-FirstHFStation.pdf
2024 A new way to learn CW with the Long Island CW Club Howard Bernstein WB2UZE,
Mike Padron N1CC
HRU2024-LearningCW.pptx
2024 6-Meters and F2 propagation Ken Neubeck WB2AMU HRU2024-SixMeters.ppt
2024 Batteries for Ham Radio Stuart Cohen AF2SC HRU2024-Batteries.pptx
2024 Orbiting the Earth: A Beginners Guide to operating Ham Radio Satellites with an HT Peter Portanova W2JV HRU2024-Satellites.pdf
2024 EMCOMM Forum NYC/LI – Auxcomm Martin Grillo W1EMR HRU2024-AUXCOMM.pptx
2024 New SDR based transceivers Neil Goldstein W2NDG https://55vf85.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HRU2024-NewRadioDesigns.pptx
2024 Raspberry Pi applications for Ham Radio Neil Goldstein W2NDG raspberry-pi-applications-for-ham-radio.html
2024 Grounding and Safety in the Ham Shack Don Kane WB2BEZ HRU2024-GROUNDING.pdf
2024 ARMY MARS – Military Auxiliary Radio System Ron Tomo KE2UK HRU2024-MARS.pdf
2024 Advantages of Computer Logging Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2024-ComputerLoggingAdvantages.pptx
2024 Practical Test Equipment Ed Gellender WB2EAV HRU2024-TestEquipment.pdf
2024 Antenna Power Flow and SWR Mike Kozma WY2U power_flow8a.pptx
VSWR_Loss_14_2024.xlsx
2023 Winlink for EmComm Robert Jadge KD2GRS 2023_HRU_KD2GRS_WinlinkEmComm.pdf
2023 QRP low power fun John Meade W2XS QRP-HRU-2023-W2XS-Han1/QRP-HRU-2023-W2XS-Part2.pdf”>QRP-HRU-2023-W2XS-Part2.pdf
2023 Parks on the Air Dennis Bodout.pdf
QRP-HRU-2023-W2XS-Part1.pdf
POTA_HRU_Rev_4.pptx
2023 HF Digital Modes including FT8 Neil Goldstein W2NDG https://fofio.blogspot.com/2023/01/digital-modes-ft8-and-wspr-ham-radio.html
2023 Raspberry Pi applications for Ham Radio Neil Goldstein W2NDG https://fofio.blogspot.com/2023/01/raspberry-pi-applications-for-ham-radio.html
2022 Basics of HF operating Mel Granick KS2G HRU2022-Basics-of-HF-Operating.pdf
2022 Contesting – Everything You Need To Know Mel Granick KS2G HRU2022-Contesting-Everything-You-Need-To-Know.pdf
2022 Scanning Phil Lichtenberger W2LIE docs.google.com/presentation/d/181lHH5_ePIJvFxUrMq-eefLE-KLlB8WfHBV1w1f8Vfs/edit?usp=sharing
2022 HF Digital Modes including FT8 Neil Goldstein W2NDG digital-modes-including-ft8-ham-radio.html
2022 Raspberry Pi applications for Ham Radio Neil Goldstein W2NDG raspberry-pi-applications-for-ham-radio.html
2022 Grounding and Safety in the Ham Shack Don Kane WB2BEZ HRU-2022-Grounding.ppt
2022 Parks on the Air Peter Deluca AA2VG Parks-on-the-Air-Chaser-HRU-2022.pdf
2022 Introduction to ham radio logging programs Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2022.Overview-of-Logging-Program-by-KA2D.pptx
2022 Introduction to DXing handout Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2022.DXing_handout.pdf
2022 Introduction to DXing Presentation Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2022.Introduction-to-DXing-by-KA2D.ppt
2022 QRP low power fun John Meade W2XS HRU2022-QRP-W2XS-Handout.pdf
HRU2022-HRU-QRP-Presentation-W2XS.pdf
2022 The Art of Operating Amateur Satellites with an HT Peter Portanova W2JV HRU2022_Satellite.pdf
2021 Software Defined Radios Ria Jairam N2RJ HRU2021-SDR-N2RJ.pdf
2021 Basics of HF operating Mel Granick KS2G HRU2021-HFBasics.pdf
2021 HF Digital Modes including FT8 Neil Goldstein W2NDG digital-modes-including-ft8-ham-radio.html
2021 Raspberry Pi applications for Ham Radio Neil Goldstein W2NDG raspberry-pi-applications-for-ham-radio.html
2021 Antenna Power Flow and SWR Mike Kozma WY2U WY2U_power_flow6.pptx
WY2U_VSWR_loss.xlsx
2021 Remote Station Operation Rick Bressler K2RB RemoteOperatingInfosheetForHRU.pdf
2021 QRP low power fun John Meade W2XS HRU2021-QRP-W2XS-Handout.pdf
HRU-QRP-Presentation-W2XS.pdf
2021 Introduction to ham radio logging programs Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2021-KA2D-logging-handout.pdf
2021 The Art of Operating Amateur Satellites with an HT Peter Portanova W2JV Peter-Portanova-HRU2021-PDF.pdf
Peter-Portanova-Getting-Started-1.pdf
Peter-Portanova-Full-duplex_radios_for_satellites.xlsx
Peter-Portanova-FM-Satellites-Best-Practices.pdf
Peter-Portanova-The-AMSAT-Journal-September-October-2020.pdf
2021 Introduction to HRU and Newcomer’s meeting Diane Ortiz K2DO HRU2021-K2DO-Intro-Forum.pdf
2020 Keynote Speaker presentation Kris Bickell K1BIC HRU2020-N1BICkeynoteSlides.pdf
2020 Antenna Power Flow and SWR Mike Kozma WY2U HRU2020-power_flow6.ppt
2020 Antenna Power Flow and SWR Mike Kozma WY2U HRU2020-VSWR_Loss_13b.xlsx
2020 Satellite Operations for Beginners Frank Garofalo WA2NDV HRU2020-SatelliteOps.ppt
2020 Overview of Ham Radio Logging programs Tom Carrubba KA2D HRU2020.KA2D.pptx
2020 Zooming into CW online Howard Bernstein WB2UZE,
Rich Collins K2UPS
HRU2020-ZoomingCW.pptx
2020 Contesting – everything you need to know Mel Granick KS2G HRU2020-Contesting.pdf
2020 Building your first HF station Phil Lewis N2MUN HRU2020-StationBuilding.pdf
2020 Basics of HF Operating Mel Granick KS2G HRU2020-HFBasics.pdf
2020 Antenna Support Structures Peter Portanova W2JV http://www.mediafire.com/file/bonpyndhobt6t4z/HRU2020-AntennaSupportStructure.pdf/file
2019 Contesting – all your questions answered Mel Granick KS2G Contesting19.pdf
2019 Building your first HF station Phil Lewis N2MUN HRU2019-StationBuilding.pdf
2019 Basics of HF Operating Mel Granick KS2G HRU2019-HFBasics.pdf
2019 QRP Forum John Meade W2XS QRP Presentation 1-5-19 W2XS.pdf
2019 Scanner Forum Phil Lichtenberger W2LIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR_J8Ai0HY0
2019 Satellite Ops for Beginners Frank Garofalo WA2NDV HRU-SAT-OPS-FINAL.ppt
2019 Keynote Address from ARRL Chief Executive Officer Howard Michel WB2ITX https://vimeo.com/311243410
2019 RFI in the ham shack – tips, tricks and traps Rick Lapp KC2FD RFI-hamshack-20190106.pdf
2018 New Digital Modes including FT8 Neil Goldstein W2NDG wsjt-x-and-ft-8-mode-hru-2018.html
2018 Advanced DXing – DX propagation Ed Whitman K2MFY HRU2018_DXpropagation.ppt
2018 Amateur Radio RFI Mitigation strategies Ron Milione W2TAP HRU2018_Radio-Frequency-InterferenceW2TAP.pdf
2018 QRP low power fun John Meade W2XS HRU2018_QRP-PresntationW2XS.pdf
2018 Safety in the ham shack and Grounding Don Kane WB2BEZ https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t5tu1ogix3ferf2/AAAtDW9dIFPWyCiMKfkckD1Va?dl=0
2018 Basics of HF operating Mel Granick KS2G,
Phil Lewis N2MUN
HRU2018-HFBasics.pdf
2018 Building your first ham station Phil Lewis N2MUN HRU2018-StationBuilding.pdf
2018 Contesting For Newcomers and Non-Contesters Mel Granick KS2G HRU2018_Contesting.pdf
2018 Magnetic Loop Antenna Design Mike Kozma WY2U HRU2018_Small-Loop-Antenna-Design-Project_temp.pptx
HRU2018_Loop_antenna_8q.xlsx
2018 Software Defined Radio for HF Ria Jairam N2RJ https://drive.google.com/file/d/18bjgyV-q1CXNeR9d-6BB3hY8vzIlL-Lk/view