Category: Zoom Meetings

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.

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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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Chasing SOTAs. Most of us have heard about SOTA (Summits on the Air) activations where amateurs originate portable operations from mountain tops. Ron Topolinsk-K6CPR introduces us to radio fun you can have without all the hiking – chasing SOTAs!

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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, July 20, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Go Kits Return – Last year’s hit program returns! The newest approaches to mobile operation – go-kits -will be set up and displayed and the advantages of each will be discussed.

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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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Mesh Networks – Orv Beach-W6BI will discuss ham radio networking or “mesh” networking, one of the fastest growing activities in amateur radio. The Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) Mesh Network Project is a very large, long-range WiFi-type network system for licensed amateur radio operators and can operate on amateur radio frequencies.

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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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic – Field Day 2023: CVARC Field Day Chair Keith Elliott-W6KME outlines the plans for the club’s Field Day on June 24-25. On Field Day, CVARC members join more than 40,000 hams throughout North America in setting up temporary transmitting stations in public places to demonstrate ham radio’s science, skill and service to our communities and our nation.

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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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: The Evolution of CW: Norm Campbell-AB6ET looks at how wired telegraphic electromagnetism evolved into wireless electromagnetic CW radio waves.  Norm details the short history of this “almost instant” communication and what it did for us as a country and later as hobbyists.

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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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Designing and Assembling Amateur Satellites: Abigail Outcalt-KN6SOT and Cole Fehring-KN0TCF of the Cal Poly CubeSat Laboratory talk about  miniature satellites that have been used in low Earth orbit for many applications including communications.

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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