September 14th 9am to 3pm
Join the El Dorado County ARC as we hold our annual activation of the Big Hill summit WS/NS-290 and Park El Dorado National Forest K-4455. At the event you can learn about the POTA and SOTA programs and see examples of stations used for these activities.
The Big Hill summit has great views of the Crystal Basin and Sacramento Valley and is a great location to test the range of your HT.
Bring your portable radio gear, folding chair, picnic lunch, and sunscreen.
Directions:
Highway 50 East from Placerville for ~21 miles to Ice House Road.
North on Ice House Road for 9.9 miles to Big Hill Road
West on Big Hill Road 2.4 miles to Big Hill Lookout
Can’t make the event on site? Join us as chaser from home and help us make contacts! Find our “spots” at https://sotawatch.sota.org.uk/ or https://pota.app/#/
We'll have a cash bar tended by the Lions Club and a delicious Italian themed dinner catered by John Sanders from Old Town Grill.
The cost will be about $27 per person including tax.
If you plan to attend, please fill out the following form.
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Jeremy
Wonderful evening for our August club meeting. We had some new visitors and a few of them applied for membership. After we got through the club business, we started off with an HF contact with our club president Jeremy W6TKD who was traveling through Wyoming. We used Bob's W1RH station remotely to make a contact with W6TKD on 20m phone. Bob also gave us an update on the 2m voting receiver work.
Jim, AF6FO talked about his 5 band transverter installation and how it interfaces with his Flex transceiver.
Simon K6DXN, showed us how he navigates around his handheld radio being visually impaired.
Some club activity dates were also shared.
- September 14th @ 10:00am we will have our annual SOTA/POTA gathering on Big Hill in the El Dorado National Forrest
- The club meeting on Septeber 17th will be a dinner gathering at the Lion's club. Cost will be arround $25.
At the July meeting we welcomed some new members and visitors to the meeting. Mike, N7MSS gave a report on the latest ARES activities including the callout for a local fire, participation at Hot RF Nights, and feedback from the Marshal Hospiital exercise. Jay, KE6GLA is looking for net controls for the Tuesday 2m net at 7:30pm and JR, K6LBP is looking for net controls starting in August for the 220MHz "Use It or Lose It" net. The club also aggred to having a September Holiday Dinner details TBD.
The Program for the meeting was Basic Fox Hunting Skills. Bob, W1RH and Jay, KE6GLA presented the information to the attendees.
