2026 ARRL Field Day is June 27 - 28
The club will be operating Field Day at our historical Mormon Emigrant Trail location. What that means is that overnight camping is encouraged. The location is at 6,600ft and you will need to bring everything to enjoy the weekend. We have space to setup several HF stations. You can use the trees for antenna supports. If you plan on using an outdoor stove or grill for cooking, you will need a fire permit from here https://readyforwildfire.org/permits/
The Field Day Site is approximately 23 miles from Pollock Pines. From HWY 50 take Sly Park Road south. Turn left on Mormon Emigrant Trail (AKA County Road 16 or NF Road 5). Then drive approximately 17.3 miles straight to the site. Look for our signs.
Location: N38° 40'05.20", W120° 17'32.97"
The object of the ARRL Field Day is to work as many stations as possible on any and all amateur bands (excluding the 60, 30, 17, and 12-meter bands) and in doing so to learn to operate in abnormal situations in less than optimal conditions. A premium is placed on developing skills to meet the challenges of emergency preparedness as well as to acquaint the general public with the capabilities of Amateur Radio.
More Field Day information from the ARRL https://www.arrl.org/field-day
At our April meeting we had a night of show-and-tell from our members. It's always interesting to see what everyone is up to! JR, K6LBP started off the evening presenting W6WDF, Mike with his prize for winning the 220 Use-it-or-lose-it net drawing.
Steve, K6SLP was our member spotlight for the evening. Roger, W6WHU gave us a reminder and countdown to ARRL Field Day
Robert AG6ZZ showed off his custom dual time zone app for the Pebble Watch. Jerremy, W6TKD showed us how used a cheap GPS to make mobile scanning easier.
Susan, KM6MFP presented the banner she has been working on for the Placerville, Banners on Parade.
Everyone was happy the Dave, W6TQ brought another great bunch of prizes for the raffle.
I wasn't able to attend the March meeting, but I heard that we had another good turnout for the meeting. Our member spotlights were given by Corde, K6DLA and JR K6LBP. Thank you to both for sharing their stories. JR presented George, AI6QL with his prize for winning the "220 use it or lose it net" for the month of February. Our speaker for the evening was Patrick Bolan KJ7ZSU from Geochron. Thank you Patrick for sharing the Geochron history and product innovations with us.
At the February meeting we able to meet in person in spite of the weather. Some of us used Zoom to participate in the meeting due to the poor road conditions. Joel, WB6GUY gave us a biography about his interests and interests in Ham Radio. Roger, W6WHU gave us a wrap-up report for Winter Field Day and our Coloma Special Event station in January. He reported that we have been improving every year. He also informed us ARRL Field Day is not too far away. Michal, WA6RZ was our featured speaker. He spoke about the upcoming Artemis II mission to orbit the moon and the goals future Artemis missions.
