Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club
An ARRL Special Service Club since 1970
CVARC had a successful and fun Field Day on the weekend of June 24-25. Click on “Continue Reading” to see the entire photo gallery. Please email me your pictures and I’ll add them to the collection. (Thanks so far to: AJ6CL, AA6JR, W6KME, N6XEW, K6AGL, KN6QQW, K6MIL, W0UFC, NS6X.)
Continue reading “18 Alpha, Sierra Bravo!”
Bill Willcox-KF6JQO has revised his very useful Field Day Interference Checklist for 2023. The list offers a number of tips and best practices for minimizing interference with your Field Day setup. Of course, these suggestions can be very helpful for your own shack if you are having RF problems. You can view the checklist here or on this website at Links/Technical Articles/Anti-Interference Checklist.
CVARC’s Field Day returns for a third years at the Sherwood Development Company’s field, aka “Dicken’s Patch.” The site is located at 373 West Potrero Road, Westlake Village. The event runs from Saturday June 24 at 11:00 A.M. to Sunday June 25th at 11:00 A.M. Setup begins at noon on Friday June 23rd.
Continue reading “2023 CVARC ARRL Field Day”
Field Day is around the corner, and we’re having a weekly Zoom meeting to prepare, Wednesdays at 8:00 P.M. Anyone planning to take part in CVARC’s 2023 Field Day in Hidden Valley is invited. The meetings are every Wednesday until Field Day, with the same login info every time. Email Keith Elliott- W6KME for more information.
Meeting ID: 897 4068 7586
Passcode: 212039
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89740687586?pwd=QzFQQitoaXE0Y2NJbisxbllDMlZjUT09
Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club will hold Winter Field Day at Dos Vientos Park, 4801 Borchard Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Saturday, January 28, 2023.
Continue reading “Save The Date! CVARC Winter Field Day is January 28th”…as in baseball, the stats are a fun part of the game.
Field Day results are out!
This year we scored 26% more points than last year! This was in no small part due to our emphasis this year on outreach with things such as educational activities, youth involvement, supported agency involvement, elected officials’ involvement, and promoting amateur radio to the wider public. Aside from enjoying ourselves, and having a great barbecue, these were the aspects of FD that we stressed and which also, incidentally, accrued points and account for this year’s higher score.
Continue reading “It’s Not A Contest, But…”
CVARC’s Field Day event is described on the KCLU Radio website. The national amateur radio exercise will be held from 11:00 AM Saturday, June 25 to 11:00 AM June 26, 2022.
Source: KCLU
Conejo Valley residents are invited to see and participate in Ventura County’s largest public emergency communications exercise of the year on June 25th and 26th. Amateur radio operators from the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club (CVARC) will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise know as Field Day from 11:00 AM Saturday, June 25 to 11:00 AM June 26, 2022.
The CVARC Field Day Event will be held at the Lake Sherwood Development Company field located at 378 W. Potrero Road in Westlake Village on the south side of W. Potrero Road, between Trentwood Drive and Stafford Road.
Continue reading “Field Day: Public Demo of Emergency Communications — June 25 – 26”
