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VP Says – December 2025
Hello Ventura County Hams, I can’t believe it’s December and another year of fun radio activities is coming to an end. “Where did the time go?” I say to myself every year at this time. The club had a great 2025: lots of fantastic weekends at our portable operation sessions, entertaining speakers at our monthly…
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Pres Says December 2025
Welcome to December! Today is December 5th. Thanksgiving was just last week, and next week Friday December 12th is our Club’s Decemberfest celebration. The weekend after that is the last weekend before Christmas, and 1 week later is Jan 1st, 2026 ! Crazy how time flies, but this is how it goes for me every…
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Pres Says – November 2025
Welcome to November! Hopefully by now everyone has changed their clocks back 1 hour. I sure enjoyed the extra hour of sleep Sunday. Weather is trending cooler, thankfully. The heat wave we had last week was amazing. It was 80 degrees outside at my house at 11pm! Ham radio wise, we had a few contests…
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JOTA – Jamboree On The Air this weekend!
From Seth NY6Z Dates: Some of our Scouts will be camping out all weekend beginning Friday, October 17, but the main JOTA activities will take place on Saturday, October 18. Scouts will be most active between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. Attendance:We are expecting about 25 Scouts and 10 adults from across Ventura County to…
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Pres Says Oct 2025
Making Things Last We bought our refrigerator around 28 years ago, a no frills, top freezer, mechanical thermostat Admiral. A simple fridge, with no ice maker or water dispenser, it did its job well, day after day without complaint. Spacious inside, no matter how much we stuffed it, it was rare that the door wouldn’t…
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VP Says – Sept 2025
Hello Ventura County Hams, I really don’t want to risk angering the propagation gods, but… are HF conditions starting toslowly get better? This weekend the MUF over North America was above 30 MHz for asubstantial amount of time, and I actually made a handful of CW contacts on 10m! It really feltlike foreign territory after…
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Pres Says – Sept 2025
Is it hot enough for you? I’m ready for cooler temps, but based on the forecast, the first week of September is going to be warm. The current weather at my QTH can always be found here: http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCAVENTU59 Situated in E. Ventura, my weather is more like Camarillo vs the coast of Ventura. My weather…
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August 8th Club Meeting
Tonight is our club meeting. Dr. Pepper WA6TWA will be giving us a presentation on the history of ham radio call signs. We will also have a raffle, and after the break we’ll talk about upcoming club events! For in-person attendance, we meet at Grace Lutheran Church 6190 Telephone Rd, Ventura 93003. If you cannot…
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VP Says – August 2025
Hello Ventura County Hams, I was not expecting to be writing another Vice President’s message, but here I am back again!First, I want to thank Robert KM6RSS for doing an amazing job as VP this year. I can’t think ofanother member with as much passion for, and dedication to, the club as Robert. He hasgraciously…
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Pres Says – August 2025
Pres Says Aug 2025 A Month of ‘Power’ Power – Earthquake! This past week there was an 8.8M quake in Russia and Tsunami warnings were issued. My seismometer, sitting in my living room 4000 miles away from the epicenter, first picked up the quake approximately 11 minutes after it happened. P-waves, vs S-waves, are the…
December 2025
Wednesday December 17
- 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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40M Local NetWednesday December 177:00 pm – 7:30 pm40M Local Net
K6MEP 40M Local Net
1900 Local Time
7.242 Mhz LSBIf you don’t hear us, tune 5 KHz higher and lower to see if we may have moved there.
Also check Groups.io or your email as I will try and send out frequency changes during the net.Lastly: To help with coordination, please tune to 147.515 Mhz simplex! This will allow us to let each other know if we moved to another frequency, or if band conditions are poor and we want to try a different band.
Sunday December 21
- 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
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10M Local NetSunday December 214:00 pm – 4:45 pm10M Local Net
K6MEP 10M Local Net
1600 PDT 28.395 Mhz USB
If you don’t hear us, check 5 KHz higher and lower as we may have moved there.
Get on the air and see who you can hear! A good way for Technicians to participate on HF as they are allowed a small slice of 10M.
Monday December 22
- 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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2M/
70cm Net Monday December 228:00 pm – 9:00 pm2M/70cm Net On the air and over ZoomPlease join us for our Monday Night Net.
Mondays 8:00pm using the PVARC linked repeaters
Sulphur Mtn:
445.560 141.3 / 440.560 141.3 -Linked
145.200 127.3 / 144.600 127.3 -LinkedSouth Mountain:
447.480 156.7 / 442.480 156.7 -LinkedCamarillo Hills:
445.600 141.3 / 440.600 141.3 – Linked
We need net hosts! Signup to host a Monday Night Net here: https://k6mep.org/host-a-monday-night-net/
Topic: Monday Night Net Zoom MeetingMeeting ID: 982 3666 9771
Passcode: 586072—
One tap mobile
+16699009128,,98236669771#,,,,*586072# US (San Jose)
+16694449171,,98236669771#,,,,*586072# US
Wednesday December 24
- 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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40M Local NetWednesday December 247:00 pm – 7:30 pm40M Local Net
K6MEP 40M Local Net
1900 Local Time
7.242 Mhz LSBIf you don’t hear us, tune 5 KHz higher and lower to see if we may have moved there.
Also check Groups.io or your email as I will try and send out frequency changes during the net.Lastly: To help with coordination, please tune to 147.515 Mhz simplex! This will allow us to let each other know if we moved to another frequency, or if band conditions are poor and we want to try a different band.
