Author Archives: AI6VX

What’s New – August 11, 2024

By | |
2 Comments

August’s Club Presentation – Jacques KN6VQ’s presentation on HF Contesting has been uploaded to our website. To view it, go to our club presentations page and at the top you will find a link to the most recent presentation. https://k6mep.org/presentations/ Volunteers needed to represent our our club at The Bored Net MicroExpo on August 31. This event is from 10am to 5pm and VCARC will have a pop-up canopy and table there with business cards, flyers, and your smiling faces greeting visitors and telling folks about our club. If you are attending this event, please sign up for a 1 or 2 hour slot by emailing me at president@vcarc.club, or reply to the groups.io email with your desired times. Monday Night Net Hosting BIG thanks to those that signed up for slots! Remember that each time you host, you get 3 points towards winning one of our cash prizes at… Continue reading →

Club Meeting Friday August 9th at 7pm

By | | ,
Leave a comment
Hourglass on a beach

Please join us for our monthly club meeting on Friday August 9th at 7pm. Jacques KN6VQ will be giving a presentation on contesting. We will also be talking about club activities through the rest of the year. Please join us in-person at: Grace Lutheran Church 6190 Telephone Rd, Ventura 93003 or via Zoom (details below). Thank you! Dave AI6VX Topic: VCARC August Club MeetingTime: Aug 9, 2024 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/98296525365?pwd=yRaVEYuGH2mwrcWsafPURcaCrSPp5Z.1 Meeting ID: 982 9652 5365Passcode: 452178

Pres Says – July 2024

By | | ,
Leave a comment
Hourglass on a beach

Time passes by differently at different stages of one’s life.  When I was still in school, there was school time, then Summer break time.  After graduating from college, there was no more Summer break time – it was work, then the weekend.  Gone were the days when I would have a large block of time off.  Lately, at least for the past 10+ years, it’s been ‘The Holidays’, then the 4th of July. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas go by in a blur, then it’s all over until ‘The 4th’.  And after ‘The 4th’, next thing I know it’s Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas again.  Another trip around the Sun, another year older. It’s all going by too fast for me. Field Day 2024 was so far in the future at the start of the year, and yet here we are already past it by 2 weeks.  What a great weekend that… Continue reading →

Field Day 2024 Photos

By | | , , ,
Leave a comment

Field Day 2024 is now in the history books. The Oxnard College location was once again was a nice place to spend 24+ hours with fellow club members and visiting hams. It was great to see everyone spreading out and setting up your stations, helping others, and watching and hearing you all operate. The food was great (thank you meals and menu planning committee folks) and big thanks to the folks at the end that helped tear down and clean up. I believe we left the place in better condition than when we arrived. If you took photos, please share them! You can either email me photos or send me a link to a file sharing location and I can get them up on the website. Meanwhile here’s photos that Robert took during Field Day 2024. Enjoy! Dave AI6VX

VCARC FIELD DAY 2024 INFO

By | | ,
Leave a comment
Graphic logo with the text "K6MEP Ventura County Amateur Radio Club California USA". Image is a cartoon drawing of the islands off the coast of Ventura, with seagulls and 1 sailboat

The Ventura County Amateur Radio Club will be holding our annual ARRL Field Day event this weekend from 11am Saturday June 22nd through 11am Sunday June 23rd at Oxnard College. Club members will be setting up their equipment in the field adjacent to parking lot B (corner of Bard and Rose), and during the 24 hour period, will be making contact with as many other ham radio operators as possible. Map to event is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gr8xajyJHbaCBfZn8 If you have been curious about ham or emergency communications, this would be the perfect event for you to stop by, see what is possible, and ask questions. We will even have a GOTA (get on the air) station set up where you can experience the fun of making contact with another ham operator. With the current solar cycle, we’ve had great success in reaching far away stations such as Australia with just 50… Continue reading →

Slides From June 14th 2024 Club Meeting

By | | , , ,
Leave a comment
ARRL Field Day 2024 logo

Thank you all for coming out to our club meeting Friday June 14th. We had a good working meeting to go over our Field Day 2024 plans. As promised, here is a link to the slides presented out our meeting. Slide 15 has the details on loading N3JFP logging software onto your laptop. Slide Deck A Zoom invite for our meal planning and N3FJP tutorial will be listed on our club calendar and over Groups.io Field Day 2024 is right around the corner! Dave AI6VX

President’s Message – June 2024

By | | , ,
Leave a comment
Boston Dynamics Spot with person

President’s Message – June 2024 Field Day 2024 is here! What seemed so far off in the distance is now a mere 2 weeks away.  Our June club meeting will be 100% focused on final Field Day planning.  To help with the planning, and to get the latest information, please try to attend this meeting in-person or over Zoom. Our HF nets are taking off!  The last few 40M nets have been amazing.  Strong signals locally and up and down California.  We even have a non-club member check in regularly from the South Western tip of Utah.  We had 16 check-ins at one of our recent 40M nets, 13 of which were from outside of our area!  If you haven’t been working the HF bands, give it a try!  And don’t be afraid of calling out CQ.  I’ve noticed there seems to be a lot of friendly folks that tune… Continue reading →