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.





We had a great turnout at Coloma this year for annual event. The weather was excellent on Saturday and we had many visitors. A few people got their first try at running a HF station. The station logged 449 contacts between all the events. On Sunday the weather was a bit cooler, and we didn’t have as many visitors but had several different people operate the HF station. Thanks to everyone who helped with the event.
| Band | QSO's |
| WFD 40M | 31 |
| WFD 20M | 315 |
| WFD 15M | 65 |
| WFD 10M | 19 |
| Subtotal | 430 |
| Non-WFD | 19 |
| Total | 449 |


