Category: Club Meeting Information

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

Topic: DXpedition: Paul Ewing-N6PSE is the founder of the Intrepid DX Group and has organized and participated in eight DXpeditions to very rare DX and exotic locations around the world, including Northern Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen. Paul will discuss his visit to North Korea and how he got and lost permission for a DXpedition.

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, January 19, 2023 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: James Webb Space Telescope: Most of us are enjoying the spectacular images coming from the new James Webb Space Telescope. CVARC member Gary Bostrup-KM6DMM has been involved with the landmark project, working on the sensors that are collecting those precious photons. Gary will be talking about how those amazing images are created and how radio is used to control the spacecraft and send data back to earth.

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, November 17, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Parachute Mobile – When was the last time you worked 146.520 from 14,500 feet? How about while floating down to earth under a parachute? We’ll meet Carlos Felix-KD9OLN who takes his radio on jumps and has made 2m, 10m, and 20m contacts on the way down.

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, October 20, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Update on the progress of Solar Cycle 25 – Solar Cycle 25 is anticipated to peak with solar maximum occurring between 2023 and 2026. Ken Larson-KJ6RZ discusses where we are in the current solar cycle, implications of what appears to be happening, and what we can expect going forward. The talk also discusses a few of the propagation problems that we can expect , what causes them, and to some extent how we can work around them..

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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 7:30 P.M. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: K-4 Technology: ARRL Santa Barbara Section Emergency Coordinator Rick Tate-KQ6NO will demonstrate the Elecraft K-4 and discuss how its direct-sampling technology works. Not long ago, this technology was only found at the very top of the market, but radios such as the Yaesu FT-991A and Icom IC-7300 are a sign that before long this technology will be standard for all HF radios.

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The next regular club meeting will be held on Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. at the East County Sheriff’s Station.

Topic: Emergency Backup Power – A panel will discuss several approaches to emergency power including home-brew solar/battery set ups, UPS, and other power storage and generation systems.

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