At the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club November 2021 meeting, Dr. Ed Fong (WB6IQN) presented about about VHF/UHF Dual Band J-Pole Antennas. He is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antennas, featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST.
The DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll up version.  The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF Antenna Handbook and also in the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook.  There are over 18,000 of these antennas in use today, about half by hams and the other half by government and commercial agencies.
Ed also briefly discusses his most recent antenna, the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna – published in March 2017 QST.
More information: https://www.edsantennas.weebly.com/

At the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club’s October 2020 meeting, John’s presentation begins at 22 minutes, after member introductions.

John is the primary person for Satellite contacts during SLVARC/SCCARC Field Day events.
“It all began with a simple setup, and hand-operated antenna tracking (in fact we put the antennas up by simply cradling them on a tripod of three poles standing together, like they did with rifles during the civil war). Someone would read the results of list of calculated satellite positions, and move the antennas manually, while I sat at the radio and tried to make contacts. Since then automation has joined the party and now everything is automated, even the tuning of the radio. The station has improved year after year, and now has become a simple setup to repeat.

Though maybe for next year we could try adding…

So you see, this is how the game of satellite contacts goes. It’s great fun, and sometimes can be very similar to ‘weak signal’ contacts, and sometimes similar to DX pileups. There are some things going one that make it much easier than in the past, and some things that are making it harder. In general I love it, and hope everyone else would join me in playing this game.

For this presentation I plan to discuss the current state of satellite operation, what I am aware of that is coming for the future, and how we can all get on the air. It will be an interactive discussion, and I welcome all questions.”

John Sisler is a BSME, with recent Master of Energy from the University of Auckland. He has years of experience in mechanical design of electronic products, and has recently been concentrating on geology and geothermal energy power production.

At the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club November 2021 meeting, John Portune (W6NBC) presented about Automatic Auto Tuners, and answered the question: Why should I buy a remote auto tuner?

The Club also held CLUB OFFICER ELECTIONS FOR 2022:
We had 23 Club members voting, which exceeded the required 15% quorum of the Club’s membership of 117.
New Club Board members:
President: Craig Harlamoff (N6SBN)
Vice-President: Shawn Rudnick (N7OTA)
Secretary: David Dean (N6DTA)
Treasurer: Cap Pennell (KE6AFE)
Members-at-Large: Vince Grimaldi (KM6YHE), Gary Watson (K6PDL)
President Ex-Officio: Becky Steinbruner (KI6TKB)

Scott, WA6LIE is one of the inventors and hosts of the Remote Ham program.
Amateurs everywhere now have the ability to experience this exciting hobby like never before. A monumental amount of research, engineering, and planning has gone into giving operators instant access to stations all over the globe. Have you ever wanted to experience the thrill of a giant contest station with stacks and four-squares? How about working JA’s at sunset from your east-coast QTH? With RemoteHams, you can do it all with a spin of the VFO and the click of a mouse.
RemoteHams is free, and a community CoOp with all volunteers sharing radios: www.remotehams.com - “with an S!”
(Note that this is different from remoteham.com or others, which are NOT free but rather “rent-a-radio,” trying to copy what RemoteHams created).
They created the FIRST online remote base site setup back in 2005.

Here is what radio operators are saying:
“Brandon Hansen, KG6YPI, continues to make significant improvement to his www.RemoteHams.com remote radio service with the addition of a custom client installed on a users computer. Remotehams.com offers Internet-controlled receivers and transceivers from around the world, including transmit capability. The custom client includes VoIP capability eliminating the need for a service such as Skype for audio. It also includes such features as visual level displays of both receiver and transmit audio, easy selection of audio sources, and simple adjustment of audio levels. The audio quality on such remotes as that offered by Scott WA6LIE in Salinas, California is excellent.
Beyond these features Brandon has done a superb job of creating a very attractive, easy-to-use radio interface that makes using these radios both simple and fun. It even includes capability to send and receive CW. I use WA6LIE’s radio on a regular basis from my home and find that it is almost like having his Elecraft K3 right on my desk here in Hong Kong.”
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/kg6ypis-remotehams-com-enhances-remote-controlled-radio-capability.337792/

At the Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club meeting on March 18, 2022, Craig Harlamoff presented about delta loop antennas, their history, build, components, reach, tuning, and adjustment.
A Delta loop is reported to give 6 DB gain, which is better than a Dipole. It is bidirectional, so it can discriminate in a busy band, but needs to be rotated. Delta loops are quiet, powerful, and fairly compact. Craig explains in detail how to build a larger model that reaches all across the world, but can still be taken apart easily to be transported, and a smaller model, either U-shaped (wire at the top) or Xmas tree (wire at the bottom), that reaches the US.