Swap Meet 2016
Ham Radio Swapmeet 2016
Rogue Valley Amateur Radio Club
Saturday, August 27, 2016, 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM
Location: American Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR
Our annual swapmeet will be held on Saturday, August 27th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Red Cross building. (In lieu of the September Club Meeting.)
From the September 2016 issue of The Repeater.
Field Day 2016
RVARC Field Day, 2016—At Science Works in Ashland
The Rogue Valley Amateur Radio Club Field Day for 2016 will be held at Science Works Hands-on Museum in Ashland. We will be using the north side of their lot, bordering Campus Way. We have a press release drafted and agreed with Science Works.
The Museum is located at 1500 E. Main St. This is near the more southerly of the two Ashland exits off of Interstate 5 (exit # 14). I clocked the drive at 10 miles one way from east Medford.
Setup begins on Friday afternoon, June 24, teardown is Sunday 11 AM, June 26. The actual operating event is 11 AM Saturday through 11 AM Sunday.
We will have a GOTA station this year. RVARC will have an information booth located near the entrance to the museum, and have handouts and be available to discuss Science, Ham Radio, and what Field Day is all about. Science Works is open Daily 10 AM to 6 PM in the summer, so we will try to staff the booth during the time when the Museum is open and Field Day operation is underway.
There is a parking lot at the end of Campus Way for the Science Museum.
From the June 2016 issue of The Repeater.
Holiday Party 2015
December Club Meeting: Pot-Luck Christmas Party NOTE DATE: SATURDAY, December 5th, 6:00 PM—?? The December Meeting this year will be a pot-luck dinner. There will be NO GIFT EXCHANGE. If your last name begins with the letter: A through F—bring appetizer or finger food G through M—bring hot dish, vegetables, or bread N through Z—bring desert, fruit, or beverage Time: 6:00 PM—?? Place N5EG QTH, 3950 Southview Terrace, Medford, OR 97504 Far east Medford, just off Cherry Lane and Orchard View.
Swap Meet 2015
Saturday, August 29, 2015, 9 AM—1 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
This month the program will be our annual club swap meet. Due to the timing of the Labor Day holiday this year, the swap meet will actually be held the last Saturday in August., the 29th.
It will be held at our normal meeting place, the Red Cross Building, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. We’ve sent notices to several local clubs, and have invited their participation.
From the September 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Field Day 2015
Please join us June 27, 28, and 29 for the RVARC Field Day 2015 effort! We will be setting up gear and antennas for a 4A effort. Our goal is to have fun and make available all three major modes of HF operating: voice (SSB), CW (that’s Morse code!), and digital (just RTTY and PSK31).
There will be two phone stations, and two CW stations. One of the station locations will also have a digital setup.
Setup will begin Friday around 11AM, operating begins 11AM Saturday and closes ‘sometime’ Sunday morning with take-down to follow.
There will be food available Friday evening, Saturday evening, and Sunday morning.
Even if you do not wish to operate, please come out to chat, help with logging, help set up or take down, or just look around.
Field Day 2015 will be located adjacent to the Dodge Bridge boat ramp area in a field accessible from the Jackson County Fire Department #3 station. Take highway 62 north from Medford, go through White City and Eagle Point, turn left a few miles north onto highway 234. Look for the road on the right (Rogue River Drive) immediately past Dodge Bridge itself. Pull in and park just past the fire station. There will be signs.
73 Allan K7GT
From the June 2015 issue of The Repeater.
7QP Jackson County Expedition K7D 2015
Scott Cummings, NA7OM spoke about the upcoming 7QP event. He will be operating at Agate Lake this year. He asked for the operation to be under the RVARC, in order to satisfy insurance requirements; a vote as taken, and passed. Scott also solicited additional operators for the event.
From the April 2, 2015 meeting minutes in the May 2015 issue of The Repeater.
Join the fun for 7QP Saturday, May 2nd. Phone, CW, and digital. The exchange is RS(T) and county abbreviation: 59 ORJAC on phone, or 599 ORJAC on CW & Digital. — Allan K7GT
Christmas Party 2014
December Club Meeting: Pot-Luck Christmas Party NOTE DATE: SATURDAY, December 6th, 6:00 PM—?? The December Meeting this year will be a pot-luck dinner. There will be NO GIFT EXCHANGE. If your last name begins with the letter: A through F—bring hot dish, vegetables, or bread G through M—bring desert, fruit, or beverage N through Z—bring appetizer or finger food Time: 6:00 PM—?? Place N5EG QTH, 3950 Southview Terrace, Medford, OR 97504 Far east Medford, just off Cherry Lane and Orchard View.
Swap Meet 2014
Saturday, September 6, 2014, 10:00 AM—3:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
It’s that time of year again. Summer waning, Labor Day, back to school, and the RVARC Swap Meet. Time for going through your shacks, your garage, and your attic for ham-related items you a) don’t use anymore, b) don’t want anymore, c) never really used in the first place, or d) that you want to sacrifice to appease the XYL or OM.
Call it a purge, an unburdening, or a catharsis.
Be ruthless. Do you really need that box full of 600V transformers? Those two boxes of air-variable capacitors? Your fifty-year collection of dipole baluns? Do you have a collection of vacuum tubes you’re hording for the apocalypse? How many code-practice oscillators do you need (and how long has it been since you operated CW)? Are any of those tuna-can rigs you built still working? Do you still have those shoe boxes of straight keys you’ve thought of donating to a radio museum for a big tax write-off?
If you can answer any of these and lots of other stuff as true, then why not spend the next few weeks going through your junque and bring as much as you can to the swap meet?
Since it’s been publicized in all the ham clubs from Roseburg or Redding, and from Bend to Crescent City, and on the Oregon repeater forum reflectors, and on several Oregon nets such as the Tuesday Oregon Swap Net (7:00p at 146.94 PL136.5), and will be appear in S.W. Oregon media outlets in a week or so . . . well, you won’t be the only one with things to sell. More to the point, there’ll be a lot more people to buy.
73, Todd K7TFC
From the September 2014 issue of The Repeater.
Field Day 2014
Field Day is June 28, 29, 2014 Table Rock Park, Medford, OR
Field day runs from 11:00 AM Saturday, June 28 through 11:00 AM, Sunday, June 29, 2014. Our club will start setup on Friday afternoon at Table Rock Park.
Please park in the Cascade Christian High School parking lot as shown in the map below. It’s just west off Biddle road near the Medford airport. Note that there is no access to the park from Table Rock Rd.
Plans for Field Day will be announced at the June member meeting; we anticipate operating W7DTA as 2A Oregon.
- CW station / TH5 tribander / crank up tower.
- Phone station. We’re trying to get a tribander and tower. Otherwise dipoles.
- VHF/UHF station.
- GOTA station. 4BTV vertical. Callsign will be K7TFC. We will also try to make some digital contacts, and may combine this with the GOTA station.
The GOTA station is specifically to help new hams, prospective hams, and anyone who is a little rusty to get on the air, try a new mode, and just have some fun.
We will have dinner Friday night after setup, and Saturday night. There will also be coffee Sunday morning (when it’s desperately needed by some of us).
From the June 2014 issue of The Repeater.
Amateur Radio Egg Hunt 2014
We’ll do more of that simple construction to prepare for the First Annual Rogue Valley Amateur Radio “Egg” Hunt on Saturday, April 19th–the day before Easter.
The hunt will actually be of a low-power foxhunting transmitter hidden inside a big paper-maché egg and hidden . . . well, you’ll have to find it, won’t you? If there’s enough interest, we could follow that with an al-fresco pot-luck lunch for members and their families.
Saturday morning the week before (April 12th) we’ll have an antenna-building party for those not already equipped and put together some pieces of salvaged PVC and old TV-antenna aluminum tubing to make hand-held directional beams for two meters. — Todd K7TFC
From the April 2014 issue of The Repeater.
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