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Prez Says April 2025 March was a full month for the club, starting with the monthly meeting on the 14th where Ed Fong WB6IQN gave us a talk on his antennas.  Many of us are already happy owners of one or more of them, but at the meeting we got to hear about the time…

Thanks to everyone that came out to the picnic and also set up radios to play with! Unfortunately the bands were not good, but the company and camaraderie were most excellent! Great to have so many of the folks that took their ham test that same morning stick around to ask questions and hang with…

Pres Says March 2025 Welcome to March! Can you believe that it is almost time to change our clocks again?  The above screenshot was taken from timeanddate.com shows the hours of daylight each day for the whole year – the stepped offset is where the time changes and the white vertical bars shows our current…

Welcome to February! January was an exciting month in more ways than one.  There were many days of Santa Ana wind conditions, along with wildfires that caused unprecedented destruction.  In past years I was never very concerned with the high winds. This year was different.  The wind gusts at my house were insane.  Getting alerts…

Borrowing a line from a long running soap opera – “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives” (pictured is one of our recent gorgeous sunsets) Welcome to 2025!  Another trip around the Sun, the holidays are behind us, and wind and fire warnings seem to have replaced our rains.  As…