Upcoming Bay Area Science Fest

The Bay Area Science Fest is coming up on November 5. The event will take place at Infineon Raceway. SCRA will be having a booth demonstrating ham radio. We still need a few more volunteers to help run the booth. If you are interested in helping or demonstrating some part of ham radio, please contact Darryl at ki6msp@arrl.net

For more information about the event, please visit www.bayareascience.org

KRCB Wine Auction

SCRA will be doing the phone team for the KRCB wine auction on October 14. We will be starting at 1800 at the KRCB studio in Rohnert Park. It should go until about 2300. Be sure to be on time!

Darryl still needs 6-7 more volunteers. If you are interested, please email him at ki6msp@arrl.net

September Meeting Program

The program for the September meeting has been changed to “How to Work the Amateur FM Satellites with your HT” presented by Clint Bradford. The press release is below.

“How to Work the Amateur FM Satellites With Your HT”
Clint Bradford, K6LCS – presenterAMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his
“Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT” session at the September 7,
2011 meeting of the Sonoma County Radio Amateurs. ALL are
welcome to attend.

“The Sonoma County club has been serving their region for more than
SEVENTY years,” writes Clint.  ”I am really looking forward to meeting
the group!”

Clint’s in Southern California – but has prepared a custom slideshow
for the Sonoma County club, which will be displayed – as Skype handles the
session’s audio. “I’d much rather be there in person – but this arrangement
has worked quite successfully in the past. We’ll have a great time!”

Attendees should visit Clint’s Web site ahead of time at …

http://www.work-sat.com… and download the four-page .pdf tutorial. And he welcomes pre-
presentation questions – call him at (909) 241-7666 (cell) or send
email to

clint@clintbradford.com .

Lassen Volcanic National Park Birthday Special Event

This is a special event coming up August 7-14 to celebrate the 95th birthday of the creation of Lassen Volcanic National Park. This event is put on by John, K6LSN, who is confined to a wheelchair but still does special events from wilderness sites.

 

http://lassenbirthday.blogspot.com/

 

 

Thanks to Rick, N6GY

Maritime Radio Historical Society Night of Nights Video

Here is the link to a video of the Maritime Radio Historical Society’s Night of Nights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxuVquKP74

 

For more information, visit

http://www.radiomarine.org

 

 

Enjoy!

Technical Issues

Due to technical issues, I had to move this blog from its old server on Google to here on WordPress, which has a much better interface. When I copied all the old posts over, I couldn’t change the date, so they are all dated yesterday.

SCRA Sponsoring Mini-DXpedition to CM79

Over the weekend of August 12-14th SCRA will mount a mini-DXpedition to Northern California’s Lost Coast to activate Grid Square CM79, a narrow slice of uninhabited land on the rugged north coast.  The rest of CM79 lies in the Pacific Ocean.

Grid Squares (not really square or rectangular, but close) are of particular interest to hams who search for DX on the VHF and UHF bands.  Our club plans to be active on 6 meters, 2 meters, 430, satellite, APRS, and high frequency, using a special event callsign N6T.  We have to pack in our equipment to the operating location, about two miles from camp, so power output and antennas will be limited in scope.

We plan to base our operations at a group camp site within the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Wailaki Campground, located about 20 miles west of Garberville.  The campground is a drive-in facility.

This event is being chaired by Charlie KZ6T.  If you would like to participate, please contact Charlie at KZ6T@arrl.net.  More information will be provided as planning continues and is available at this link.

73,  Dave W6IBC

Event Information Chair.