The May 2025 meeting had a full slate of presenters, and we also had a good turnout of members and visitors for the meeting. JR, K6LBP presented Troy, KN6GLG with a new 220 handheld transceiver. Troy was the April 220 Use-It-Or-Lose-It net winner. Congratulations Troy.
Bob, W1RH shared some pictures and impressions from the 2025 Dayton Hamvention. Stefan, AF6SA showed off a home-built 160m-6m solid state amplifier. Stefan is going to loan the amplifier to the club for event use. Thank you Stefan.
Roger, W6SHU gave an update on the Field Day location and shared some drone footage of the site thanks to Jeremy W6TKD. Our main speaker for the evening was John KM6AIX. He talked about his work with drones and photo analysis software for his position in the El Dorado County Search and Rescue Team
2025 ARRL Field Day is June 28 - 29
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
Beautiful evening for a meeting. Our main speaker was Rich Tatman, who manages the California leg of the annual Pony Express re-ride. Rich shared some history of the ride and encouraged us to help by using our communication skills. We also voted to return back to the Morman Emigrant Trail location for ARRL Field Day this June. JR, K6LBP presented a new 220 radio to Rob, N6RMJ. Rob was our 220 Use-It-Or-Lose-It net winner for March. See everyone next month.
A good turnout for the March meeting. We had the regular crowd and few people on Zoom. A couple of visitors decided to join us as well. Our 220 Use It or Lose It net winner was James KM6PHO JR presented him with his new 220 Radio. James then gave the radio to one of our YL's. The presentation was given by JR KB6LBP and his wife, Karleen. JR and his Karleen showed us how JR got his shack out of the kitchen corner and into a new location with room to expand.
