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Tickets Go On Sale for Holiday Party and Big Raffle

Now is the time to get your tickets for this year’s CVARC Holiday Party on Thursday, December 21, 2023. The event will begin at 5:30 P.M. at the Best Western Posada Royale, 1775 Madera Road, Simi Valley. The party is not to be missed with a festive banquet, raffle prizes and the naming of the Hugh Bosma Award winner.

Tickets are $33 per person. You can buy tickets starting the October meeting or reserve your seats now with Zak Cohen-N6PK at n6pk@cvarc.org.

The winners of two raffles will be announced at the party. The first winner will be drawn from all the raffle tickets that have been sold at our monthly meetings this year. The prize will be a $100 DX Engineering gift certificate. You must be present at the holiday party to win.

The second raffle – our “Big Raffle” is for a $300 DX Engineering gift certificate.  You DO NOT need to be present at the party to win the “Big Raffle.” Tickets are $10 each or (best deal) three tickets for $25. You can purchase your raffle tickets beginning at the October meeting.

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Register Now for November Amateur Extra License Class

Zak Cohen-N6PK

It’s time again for CVARC’s Amateur Extra License Exam course, taught by Zak Cohen-N6PK. The classes will be at the East County Sheriff Station at 2101 E. Olsen Road as usual, from 8:00 A.M. to noon, on November 4, 11, 18, 25, and December 2. CVARC will be holding a license exam session on December 10th. The class covers all the exam questions and topics and removes all the mystery. If you haven’t upgraded to Extra yet, now’s the time!

We’ll be using the ARRL’s Extra Class License Manual, 12th Edition. It’s available directly from the ARRL as well as other online sellers.

To save a spot in the class, email Keith Elliott-W6KME, at keith@w6kme.org.

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October Club Meeting

The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, October 19, 2023, at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic – What Makes a Repeater Tick – From the simple to the complex, Matt Lechliter-W6XC will explain how repeaters work and describe the hardware needed to keep them on the air. Matt looks after the hardware for the Rabbitt Network and other repeater groups.

Special note: if you can’t attend the meeting at the Sheriff’s station you can still participate via ZOOM, details below.

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Anacapa Island Dual Activation a Success

Bill Willcox-KF6JQO, Martin Hickey-AJ6CL, and Andy Ludlum-K6AGL

On September 17th, three CVARC members had a successful expedition to Anacapa Island to conduct a dual activation of the National Park with both Parks on the Air (POTA) and Islands on the Air (IOTA.)

Bill Willcox-KF6JQO, Martin Hickey-AJ6CL, and Andy Ludlum-K6AGL traveled by boat to the small volcanic island located about 11 miles off the coast of Port Hueneme, in Ventura County.

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CVARC Picnic Sunday October 22

The 2023 CVARC Picnic will be held on Sunday, October 22, 2023, from 11:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. at the Conejo Community Park, Picnic Area #1 in Thousand Oaks.  It’s behind Dover Hendrix Park.  The picnic area entrance is off of Gainsborough Road on Jeaunine Drive, just down from Tarantula Hill.  The parking lot is located here:  34.193320250646536, -118.8826924060862 

CVARC will provide burgers, hot dogs, and buns.  Our Social Chair Mike Felio will do the grilling.  We will bring everything else “pot-luck style.”  Bring your favorite picnic-style dish!

Follow this link to a spreadsheet to sign up for different picnic-style food items. Let’s keep track, so we aren’t overloaded with any one item and totally devoid of another.  Put your name and call sign in the row of the item you intend to bring.

See you at the park!

Martin Hickey-AJ6CL CVARC OPS

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President’s Message

Hello CVARC members, families, and guests!

August flew by, did it not?  We had a tropical storm, record heat, an earthquake, a VE session, an end fed half wave antenna build and a SOTA event. It was a busy and exciting month for sure. I can’t wait to see what September has in store. For one, September is National Preparedness Month. Also in August, we had our first recipient of the CVARC Newbie Net Challenge Coin. Congratulations to Huston Herman-KE6FGX!  You did an excellent job running the net!

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Results of the August 13th VE Session

CVARC held a VE session on August 13th. There were 11 candidates, and 10 new licenses or upgrades were earned: 1 Technician, 7 General, and 2 Extra. Among those who earned new licenses or upgrades at the session were:

Neil W. ThomsonExtraAK6CO
Terrie L. BiedermanGeneralKN6WEC
Gregory M. RamirezTechnicianKO6AZP
Douglas E. HewittExtraKN6YOY
Fernando HernandezGeneralKI6OKT
David M. NaughtonGeneralKJ7MMZ
Sarah C. RudolphGeneralKJ7MNA
Charles S. MaslinGeneralKD6AEJ
Kirk A. BellGeneralKN6ZNY
Mel J. ChandlerGeneralKO6BAN
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September Club Meeting

The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Ken Larson-KJ6RZ

Topic – The Early Days of Amateur Radio: Ken Larson- KJ6RZ talks about an exciting time in radio from Heinrich Hertz first experiments with radio waves in 1888 through Appleton’s discovery of the ionosphere in the late 1920s. This period includes Marconi’s first trans-Atlantic communications, spark gap “wireless “communications, the invention of the of the vacuum tube, and the discovery of skip distance.

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