October 1, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: 1. ARRL NW Division Director Jim Pace, K7CEX. 2. RF Linear Amplifiers, Mike Bach, WB6FFC
The October meeting will be interesting this year. We have two speakers—Jim Pace, K7CEX is the ARRL Northwestern Division director, and he will talk about ARRL and other amateur radio matters. Mike Bach, WB6FFC will talk about RF amplifiers, an area in which he has more experience than just about anyone.
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ARRL NW Division Director Program: The ARRL Northwest Division Director, Jim Pace, K7CEX, will visit the RVARC during our October meeting and conduct a forum on ARRL and Amateur Radio issues. This will be your chance to discuss amateur radio, the ARRL, and various ARRL programs, and give input directly to your ARRL representative on matters of interest. It’s been 3 or 4 years since we’ve had this opportunity.
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RF Linear Power Amplifiers Program: Mike Bach, WB6FFC will give a presentation on RF Linear Power Amplifiers. Mike will bring along one or two of the RF power amplifiers that he’s built. This will be an informative program, and one not to miss if you have current or future interest in RF amplifiers.
Biography: Mike has extensive experience in RF power amplifier design, development, and test. Mike is an Applications Engineer for Kathrein/Scala. He worked for many years as an Advanced Product Engineer at EIMAC in Vacuum Tube and amplifier production and test.
Elections for next year’s officers will be held at the November meeting. We need a nominating committee to solicit candidates. Please contact me if you have an interest in running for office or being on the nominating committee. — Allan, K7GT
Announced in the October 2015 issue of The Repeater.
August 29, 2015 Club Meeting
Saturday, August 29, 2015, 9 AM—1 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Swap Meet
Program — 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.
Announced in the September 2015 issue of The Repeater.
June 4, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Field Day 2015, Demonstration
Program — This month we will discuss Field Day 2015 plans, and will have a live demonstration of how to make Field Day contacts on Phone.
Announced in the June 2015 issue of The Repeater.
May 7, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: USB How-to. Advanced: Raspberry PI, John Armstrong
Basic Program — “USB How-To” This will cover “How do I set up a USB Serial Port? How do I select the COM port? What do all the USB colors mean (white/black/blue/yellow)? What’s a USB Type A vs. Type B? How do I setup a USB driver? How much power can I draw from a USB source? What is USB1, USB2, and USB3?”.
Advanced Program — “Raspberry PI” John Armstrong will give us an update on some of his Raspberry PI based projects.
Announced in the May 2015 issue of The Repeater.
April 2, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: Decibel, S-Unit, Audio demonstration. Advanced: Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), Allan Taylor, K7GT
Basic Program — “Decibel, S-Unit” This will cover “What’s a Decibel? What’s an S-Unit?” and provide an audio demonstration with voice and CW signals at various signal to noise ratios with increasing 1 S-unit signal improvements so you can hear for yourself.
Advanced Program — “Global Positioning Satellites” Allan Taylor, K7GT The program will provide an overview of the GPS global positioning system, a space-based satellite system location and time information service.
Announced in the April 2015 issue of The Repeater.
March 5, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: How to Use an SWR Meter. Advanced: Victorian Technology Meets Electronics, Lud Sibley, KB2EVN
Basic Program — “How to use an SWR Meter” This very briefly covers what an SWR meter is, where to put it in your station, and how to make an SWR measurement.
Advanced Program — “Victorian Technology Meets Electronics” Lud Sibley, KB2EVN This will be a commemoration of two “Golden Spike” moments in telecommunications: the first test call over AT&T’s transcontinental telephone facility (July 1914, service opened January 1915) and Western Electric’s transatlantic radiophone tests to France in 1915. While similar trials could have been made with non-electronic means (mechanical telephone repeaters, and arc-based and alternator radio transmitters), these events relied on vacuum-tube amplifiers.
Announced in the March 2015 issue of The Repeater.
February 5, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: How to Program your HT. Advanced: Radio Astronomy, Dennis Recla, WA5KTC
The two presentations planned for February are:
- The short presentation will be a live demo on actually programming (setting up) HTs for use with repeaters. This is aimed at newly licensed hams or those who rarely use HTs and need some coaching. Please bring your HT down and join in.
- The second presentation will be on Radio Astronomy and will be given by Dennis Recla, WA5KTC. Both look to be enjoyable, entertaining, and informative.
The club needs to decide soon as to its Field Day 2015 plans. At the January meeting two tentative options for the club’s involvement were presented with the idea of having a final discussion and decision at the next meeting. So, please consider these two options in conjunction with your personal plans and join the decision process on February 5, our next club meeting.
Announced in the February 2015 issue of The Repeater.
January 8, 2015 Club Meeting
Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: Basic: Repeaters. Advanced: APRS.
NOTE: THE JANUARY MEETING IS THE SECOND THURSDAY THIS MONTH BECAUSE THE FIRST THURSDAY IS NEW YEAR’S DAY.
The January meeting will be on Thursday the 8th this year, in order to avoid New Year’s Day. The January program will be:
- Basic: How to use a repeater.
- Advanced: Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS). This will include a live demo.
Announced in the January 2015 issue of The Repeater.
December 6, 2014 Club Meeting
Saturday, December 6, 2014 at 6:00 PM N5EG QTH, 3950 Southview Terrace, Medford, OR 97504
Program: Christmas Pot luck Party
The December meeting is the club’s annual Christmas pot-luck party (see Christmas Party 2014).
At our last meeting, we elected officers for 2015. Torches will be passed at the annual Christmas potluck on December 6th. Allan Taylor, K7GT, will serve as president, Jeff Stachwick, W7KNX, will back him up as vice president, Carl VanOrden, W7BRO, will continue as secretary, and Bob Deuel, K2GLO, will take over the treasury from Lud Sibley, KB2EVN, who is retiring after ten years of faithful service.
Announced in the December 2014 issue of The Repeater.
November 6, 2014 Club Meeting
Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM Red Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne St., Medford, OR (across from Hawthorne Park)
Program: DXing, Election of Officers
Announced in the November 2014 issue of The Repeater.
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