Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, presenter at the March monthly meeting

NOTE: Carl's presentation has been attached (below), and the recording of his presentation is available at: https://bit.ly/3kSRGB3

"Cycle 25 Is On the Way"

We are pleased to announce that Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, will be our special guest presenter at the March 4 monthly meeting.

PLEASE NOTE: We will be starting the meeting at 1900 hours with Carl's presentation, and conduct the regular club business portion following his presentation and the Q&A session.

Carl will start his presentation with a review of solar cycles and why they are important. He will follow up with a quick look back at Cycle 24, then review the predictions for Cycle 25 and what to expect now while we're still at solar minimum and what to expect in the next several years.

He will go over space weather data and list what he thinks is important as Cycle 25 rises. Carl will conclude his talk with some simple antennas for 15 meters, 12 meters, 10 meters and 6 meters so you can take advantage of the increased number of sunspots.

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Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA

Carl has been licensed since October 1961 (his Novice call was WN9AVT). His interest in propagation goes back to his college days at Purdue University (BSEE 1969, MSEE 1972).

Carl's website (https://k9la.us/) contains selected articles and presentations about propagation and solar topics from his writings over the years. These items are grouped into Monthly Feature, Timely Topics, Basic Concepts, Tutorials, General, 160m, HF, VHF, and Contesting.

On his website you can also read about his early Novice days at the My Novice Days link, his aviation days at the Aviation link, RF power amplifiers in the RF Power Amps link, antenna topics in the Antennas link and receive antennas in the Rcv Antennas link.

Carl's wife Vicky AE9YL (first licensed as KB5EAM in 1987 they lived in the Dallas/Ft worth area) and Carl have been on several DXpeditions (YK9A, OJ0, and many trips to ZF as ZF2LA and ZF2YL). Carl is on the Top of the Honor Roll (worked all current DXCC entities), has 160-Meter DXCC and needs four zones on 80-Meters for 5BWAZ.

Carl retired in October 2013 after 41 years as an RF design engineer with Motorola and then with Raytheon (formerly Magnavox). He was a designer of solid-state RF power amplifiers.