San Lorenzo Valley Amateur Radio Club
WR6AOK, 147.120 MHz, Offset +600 KHz, CTCSS Tone 94.8 Hz
Tonight Greg N6CK will discuss Summits on the Air (SOTA), an award scheme for hams that encourages portable operation in mountainous areas. From one's home, from a nearly hilltop, or from the top of a summit, anyone can participate. Mountaineering skills are not required! Greg also will demo his ultra-portable expedition gear.
Tonight, in addition to hearing a Field Day preparations report from John N6FBA, we'll get a refresher course from Rich KE1B on the N1MM contact-logging software, which all of our stations will use on Field Day.
The next Field Day Planning meeting is scheduled for Thursday June 12, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Meeting location is the conference room at ZFD. Any questions or volunteers can be directed to me at n6fba@arrl.net. Thank you John Charcho–FD 2014 Coordinator N6FBA
Help us whack the weeds around the repeater shack! Our agreement with the landowners requires us to maintain the vegetation on the part of the property that they let us use. Usually we meet at the intersection of Quail Hollow Road and Glen Arbor Road in Ben Lomond ("the Triangle") between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Then we carpool
Allen WB7RWU and visitor Stu Phillips K6TU will talk about portable 10-GHz communication.
The club's Poolside Potluck Picnic will be held at John N6FBA's house. There will be several BBQ’s going. We have plenty of charcoal left over from Field Day, and so you do not have to bring BBQ fuel. Bring whatever meat you want to BBQ, drinks, and a side dish of the usual picnic stuff, such as
We have an interesting presentation for the September meeting: Rohan Agrawal, KJ6LXV, will present "Bluetooth APRS Text Messaging and Tweeting Systems." He is also the developer of the system being discussed. What is most interesting is that Rohan is 12 years old. He will be doing the presentation at SLVARC as a "warm up" for
