Updated May 8th, 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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May Club Meeting Speaker

"Field Day Strategies, Tactics and Logistics"

Marty Woll N6VI has been in Amateur Radio for over forty years. He holds an Extra Class license and is a Life Member of the ARRL. Last year Marty was elected Vice-Director of the ARRL for the Southwestern Division.

Marty is a founding member of the Southern California Contest Club has served as a member and chair of the ARRL's Contest Advisory Committee. In past years he has been President of the Southern California DX Club and chair of the Los Angeles Area Council of Radio Clubs. Currently he is Assistant District Emergency Coordinator and Training Director of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) for the Northwest District of the Los Angeles Section.

He is also a member of and instruc-tor for the Los Angeles Fire Depart-ment's Auxiliary Communication Service, an ARRL Volunteer Instructor, and a Volunteer Examiner with both ARRL and the Greater L. A. Amateur Radio Group (GLAARG). Marty has set up and operated amateur radio stations on five continents, and he is a frequent speaker at local radio clubs.

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Field Day 2008 is Approaching

George Bryant KB1PFX

Well here it is Field Day! YOOHOO! This year Field Day occurs on Saturday and Sunday June 28th and 29th, with setup on Friday June 27th. Much of the planning must be completed during the May CVARC General Meeting. The June meeting is only a few days before the Field Day event.

Again this year we have arranged with the City to hold Field Day at the Thousand Oaks Park and Recreation facility (old city hall) at 401 W. Hillcrest Dr., on the hill above the Oaks Mall.

Set up will begin at noon on Friday June 27th and continue into the evening. We will take a break from the set up in the early evening for a pot luck dinner; see below for what has been committed to so far. Make sure to see George KB1PFX at the meeting in May to add to the list.

Saturday evening dinner will be catered by Bandits BBQ. Everyone that I have spoken to had the highest regard for their spread. The cost is $12.50 per person. Please see Roy De-schene at the May meeting with your funds. The earlier we have a count the better it is for Bandits to put the order together. Of course those that cannot make the May meeting can reserve their seat and make payment at the June meeting.

Last year there was a salsa and guacamole contest. Will Mary be interested in running it again?

The Field Day logging software is a big hit and will be used again this year. The software be-longs to CVARC and is licensed to the club call sign AA6CV. There is no limit to the number of users, so each Band Captain can have his station connected via wireless local network into the logging software server. The software requires a laptop computer with an 801.11/G network interface. I will try to have it demonstrated at the June meeting.

At the May meeting we need to have a good idea of how many stations will be up and run-ning, who the Band Captains will be and who will be participating. Your attendance at the May meeting is very important to facilitate these numbers. Band Captains are responsible for setting up a station. Typically the group has operating 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6 and 2 meters running CW, SSB or Digital. Usually a station operates on a single band and in a single mode. The Band Captain provides the station radio, antenna, batteries, a laptop computer for logging, and a table with chairs. The Band Captain is also responsible for assembling his team to keep his station on the air throughout the whole Field Day event. If you would like to be a Band Captain but have trouble supplying some equipment talk to one of the CVARC Board Members and tell them what you need. You can still be a Band Captain even if you do not have all of the equipment.

We need a lot of operators. If you want to be an operator join the fun and get in touch with one of the Band Captains and operate for a couple of hours or so. Come on, I know you want to have fun too.

BAND CAPTAINS

80 m - all mode still available
40 m Phone - Neil AF6CD 40 m other modes . still available
20 m CW - Greg K7SDW CW 20 m other modes . still available 15 m - all mode still available
10 m - all mode still available
6m Phone - Roy KE6UMW 6m other modes . still available
2 m - all mode still available
70 cm - all mode still available
Satellite - all mode still available
GOTA m - all mode still available
PR Table _____________________
OTHER -- All Band CW Greg K7SDW, Tom W0UFC, Bruce K6ZB
Helpers for Friday June 27, Hugh AE6YC, Eric WB6PYK, George KB1PFX

For the pot luck, as usual the CVARC will pro-vide burgers, hotdogs and buns, soft drinks and water. Please see the sign up sheet at the May meeting to let us know what you are bringing. Bringing just yourself is also ok as we will feed you for helping anyway. I only have 8 people signed up for the Saturday Dinner from Bandits BBQ. Normally there are around 40 to 50 at the dinner.

Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail me at the numbers below.

73 de KB1PFX George 805-857-5278 nh13140@yahoo.com

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Results of the February 10, 2008 CVARC VE Session

Jeff Reinhardt AA6JR - CVARC Exam Coordinator

The CVARC VE team closed out the old year with a record turnout. A total of 25 candidates took 36 exam elements and the results were quite impressive.

Exam Participants

Name	Callsign	New License Class
Daniel H. Hertz	KC5SWC	General
John P. Barrus	KI6OQQ	Technician
Marc C. Hanley	KI6NOJ	General
Thomas D. Hartness	KI6OQO	Technician
Bradly A. Johnson	KI6OQR	Technician
Todd A. Kleopfer	KD6RCM	General
Alan R. McDaniel	KI6OQS	Technician
Daniel Suttner	KI6OQP	Technician

Special thanks to the Volunteer Examiners, without whom the exam sessions would not be possible.

The next CVARC VE session is scheduled for Sunday June 8th at the East Valley Station, at 8:30 a.m.

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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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