Updated October 1, 2008

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CVARC monthly club general meetings start at 7:30 P.M. the third Thursday of each month and are held at:

East County Sheriff's Station (ECSS)
2101 East Olsen Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

See the CVARC calendar at the bottom of the page for a complete list of dates.

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September Club Meeting Speaker

"Coast Guard Auxiliary"

Glen Kinney, KD6HJR, will be speaking on the Coast Guard Auxiliary. He will be including information about the history and the opportunities for people interested in communications to contribute to society. Glen will present a short video and slide presentation.

Glen, KD6HJR (Happy Junior Ranger) is a honest-to-goodness park ranger and frequents the Grissom (K6AER) repeater. Glen is a technician + and was initially licensed in 1992. He has been a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary since 2001 and is currently the Division Communications Services Office for D7. He is also Vice Flotilla Commander elect for Flotilla 77.

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4:1 Balun Construction Project

Hugh Bosma AE6YC

There was a surprising amount of interest in the 4:1 Balun construction project. We will keep the signups open until the first of September for those who weren't at the meeting. The signup sheet was passed around at the meeting. If you would like to participate, please email AE6YC at Hrbcrb@aol.com with your name, call sign, and whether you are a club member or not. THe cost is $10.00 for members, $15.00 for non-members.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the next meeting.

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Results of the June 8, 2008 CVARC VE Session

Jeff Reinhardt AA6JR - CVARC Exam Coordinator

The CVARC VE session of June 8 served eleven candidates. Among those who passed elements were:

Exam Participants

Name	Callsign	New License Class
Robert Boles	KI6RKQ	Technician
Gary Epstein	KC6ZTR	General
Tina Hoogenakker	KI6RKJ	Technician
Gary Hubler	KE6FSQ	Extra
Thomas Levinson	KI6RKI	Technician
Karen Dittman	KI6RKF	Technician
Jan Tadlock	KI6RKG	Technician
Robert Thompson	KI6RKH	Technician
Andrew Walker	KI6PGQ	Extra
David Wing	KI6RKE	Technician

Thanks to the VEs who gave their time to make this CVARC session possible, George Tamayo WD6EJO; Hugh Bosma AE6YC and we were assisted by Peter Grace KB1CVH.

The next session is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Sunday, August 13, 2008 at the East Valley station.

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Parking At East County Sheriff's Station

We have filled up the Visitor's Parking area at the East County Sheriff's Station (ECSS) during our last couple of CVARC General Meetings due to the excellent turnouts that we have had. If the Visitor's Parking area is filled when you arrive for a CVARC meeting, you can park in the Employee's Only parking area which is to the immediate right of the Visitor's Parking area as you drive into the sheriff's station. There may be people coming to the sheriff's station during our club meeting looking for police department assistance. For that reason we should not park in the Visitor's Parking area "15 Minute Only" parking spaces.

Ken Larson
CVARC Operations Chairman

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Technician License Classes for 2008
Compiled By Karl Moody, AE6TO

The Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club, (CVARC ) sponsors amateur radio license classes throughout the year. The Technician Class license, which is the entry level license for amateur radio is presented five times a year and each class lasts for eight weeks Classes are held on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. and are free. The only cost related to this class is the cost for the Ham Radio License Manual which is $25.00 plus tax. Students who wish to purchase this manual through the CVARC class may do so at the time of class registration. This book is a course manual presented by the Amateur Radio Relay League. The new manual covers the new FCC test requirements for all Technician exams.

Classes are taught in Thousand Oaks in classroom facilities provided as a community service by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The current classes are held at 3645 Moorpark Road, in Thousand Oaks. This is on Moorpark Road, one block North of Olsen Road.

Classes are open to all ages, and CVARC is proud to report that our graduates include 7 year old children and 84 year old adults. There are no age limits imposed by the FCC on the Amateur Radio license, and both men and women participate in the magic of radio.

Whether you are interested in radio communications with other amateur operators around the world, or just want to have your radio license for emergency preparedness, the Technician Class license is your entry to amateur radio. If you are interested, or want to know more about amateur radio, call Karl Moody at (805) 523-0622 for information regarding the next class.

Class Schedule for 2008

Start Date	End Date	Date of FCC Exam following class
February 19, 2008	April 8, 2008	April 13, 2008
April 15, 2008	June 3, 2008	June 8, 2008
June 17, 2008	August 5, 2008	August 10, 2008
August 19, 2008	October 7, 2008	October 12, 2008
October 21, 2008	December 9, 2008	December 14, 2008

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Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club
2008 FCC Exam Schedule

By Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR

The Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club (CVARC) has scheduled examinations for FCC Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) licenses six times during 2008.

Exams are conducted by accredited Volunteer Examiners and sessions are sponsored by CVARC. Exams are conducted for all FCC Amateur Radio license classes under the supervision of the ARRL VEC. No pre-registration is necessary, walk-ins are welcome. The Exams listed below will be conducted at the Ventura County Sheriff's East County Station at 2101 E. Olsen Road between Hwy 23 and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library at 8:30 a.m.

Candidates need to bring:

1. A form of government-issued photo I.D. (eg: Driver's License, Passport or School District ID).
2. Social Security Number or Taxpayer ID or FRN.
3. The original and a photocopy of any existing FCC license or CSCE notice of passing an exam element.
4. $14 Exam fee (exact change preferred).
5. Pens, pencils, calculator. Calculator memory must be cleared prior to exam

2008 Exam Schedule:

• February 10
• April 13
• June 8
• August 10
• October 12
• December 14

Should there be questions not addressed above, please contact Jeff Reinhardt AA6JR at aa6jr@sbcglobal.net or phone 818-706-3853.

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CVARC Web Site Performance

The club has been successful in acheiving a reliable and high performance web site for the benefit of our members. Looking at the web site's performance over time shows that we have made dramatic improvements in the site's response time and availability. I'd like to thank each one of you that helped me in these efforts and let me know about outages as early as possible so that I could work on them promptly. Your efforts have made a difference.

For those that noticed the little jump in February, it was a result of extremely high net activity at the site I measure the latency from. The CVARC site was fine. My site was heavily loaded while I was copying all of the files for another site up to the hosting provider. That copying phase is over so the spike it caused shouldn't happen again.

Graph of web site access latency - lower is better

Thanks,

Neil Waybright, webmaster

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Visitor Counter (since September 3rd, 2007)

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