November 2, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: To Be Announced
This month the club holds elections for 2024 officers. The floor will be open for nominations; this is your chance to volunteer for one of the positions.
Fear not, during the October meeting at least one candidate for each position volunteered.
Announced in the November 2023 issue of The Repeater.
October 5, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: To Be Announced
The program for October has not yet been announced. The club web page will be updated when the topics and speaker are known.
Announced in the October 2023 issue of The Repeater.
September 7, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Building the Eimac 4-1000 Tube, Mike Bach
Mike Bach brings us a video about the building of the Eimac 4-1000 RF power vacuum tube. This tube was a favorite for both commercial and amateur radio operators in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
We will have an approximately 30 min video program about the building of a Eimac 4-1000 tube. In December 1953 KGO TV (channel-7) in the SF Bay Area had a monthly program called “Success Story”. KGO sent a Camera crew to Eimac and filmed the process of the assembly. The Eimac Rep who told the story was John Reinartz, K6BJ (formerly 1QP, 1XAM & W3RB) the inventor of the “Reinartz Coupler”, also Chief of Communications of the 1925 Byrd North Pole expedition (Art Collins 9CXX as a young man was one of the few Hams who could maintain daily contact with this expedition when the Commercial stations could not).
Announced in the September 2023 issue of The Repeater.
June 1, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: RF Exposure Evaluation, Tom McDermott, N5EG; Field Day Plans
About 2 years ago the FCC changed regulations — these now require amateur to perform an RF Exposure Evaluation for all operations. This presentation will address the regulations, theory, and show a simple method for performing the calculations using the ARRL Web application.
There will be a discussion on the RVARC club plans for Field Day on June 24th and 25th. There will be discussion of the operating location, entry class, antennas to be used, and most importantly food.
Announced in the June 2023 issue of The Repeater.
May 4, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: To Be Announced
This month there will also be an Amateur License Exam available. Registration starts at 5:15 PM, and the exam will wrap up prior to the club meeting start at 7:00 PM.
Announced in the May 2023 issue of The Repeater.
April 6, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Project Show and Tell; Automating Amateur License Exams, Pat Cunningham, N7UH
The program this month will consist of two topics:
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A Show and Tell of your favorite projects. The projects can be Ham related, Electronic related, Software related, restoration of older equipment, etc. Members are encouraged to bring their project for demonstration if possible, Otherwise to discuss their project (with Powerpoint slides if they have any).
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Automating Amateur License Exams. License exams require an increasing amount of paperwork, and software is available to help in automating both administrative portions (applicant, forms, as well as taking the test itself. Pat Cunningham procured two inexpensive Chromebook computers and has installed software so that they can only boot directly into the examination software. He has a source of more of these devices, which appear to meet all the requirements that prevent other uses (opening other web pages, searching for answers, etc.). There will be a discussion about how our club might use these to help administer test sessions more quickly and efficiently while reducing the workload for our Volunteer Examiners.
Announced in the April 2023 issue of The Repeater.
March 2, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Vintage Military Radios, Lud Sibley, KB2EVN; Winter Field Day wrap-up, Amy Haptonstall, AG7GP, and/or John Layborne, AC7S
The program will be on vintage military radios (Japanese, British, Soviet) with some show-and tell. Lud is a well-known collector and historian of radios and components.
Amy and/or John will present a wrap-up of the recent Winter Field Day (WFD).
Don has announced the next amateur radio test session as March 2nd. The doors open at 5:15. This is just prior to the regular March club meeting, and held at the same location, the Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St. in Medford.
Announced in the March 2023 issue of The Repeater.
February 2, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: 3D Printing with Amateur Radio Applications, Larry Clark, K7LJC
The February program will be on 3D printing with Ham Radio applications, This was rescheduled from December.
The program will be on 3D printing. Larry has developed some projects with Amateur-Radio specific 3D items and projects.
Announced in the February 2023 issue of The Repeater.
January 5, 2023 Club Meeting
Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Summits-on-the-Air (SOTA), Amy Haptonstall, AG7GP
The program will be on Summits-on-the-Air (SOTA). This is an activity about traveling (usually hiking) to mountain and hill top summits, and operating and activating those locations.
Amy Haptonstall, AG7GP is an avid hiker and contester, and has won multiple awards.
Did Santa Claus bring you a new Ham Radio related toy? If so, consider bringing it for show and tell, and / or making a few brief remarks in case others in the club would be interested.
Announced in the January 2023 issue of The Repeater.
December 1, 2022 Club Meeting
Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: 3D Printing with Ham Radio Applications, Larry Clark, N7LJC
The program will be on 3-dimensional printing. Larry will discuss some Ham Radio project parts that he has printed.
Pat has an interesting program lined up for us this month. Larry has fabricates some useful ham-radio related parts on his 3d printer. It should be fun to see what is possible.
Announced in the December 2022 issue of The Repeater.
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