October 3, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: TBD
Information about the October program has not been received as of the newsletter publication date.
The club holds nominations for 2020 officers at the October meeting. Three current office holders have agreed to run again for their respective offices (Treasurer, Secretary, and Vice President). Please attend and consider volunteering to help our club. The time and effort involved in the positions is not that great.
Announced in the October 2019 issue of The Repeater.
September 5, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Emergency Communications—Preparing for the Worst, Steve Bosbach, KW5V, and Dakota Otto, KR7DAK
Steve Bosbach and Dakota Otto will discuss how Jackson County agencies work with the ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service). They will also discuss the various programs available for certification of emergency responders.
Biography: Steve Bosbach, KW5V, and Dakota Otto, KR7DAK are members of Jackson County ARES (JC ARES).
Announced in the September 2019 issue of The Repeater.
June 6, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: DMR Digital Mobile Radio, Pat Cunningham, KD7MPA
DMR (Digital Mobile Radio), is an open digital radio standard. DMR radios are capable of two transmissions on a single frequency (Slot 1 & Slot 2), and include features like text messaging and paging/alerting. They are very popular among hams because many (especially handheld) radios are available quite inexpensively. The is a large network of DMR radios developing around the world, and inexpensive hotspots can be purchased readily. Pat will talk about DMR, and demonstrate a hotspot.
Biography: Pat Cunningham, KD7MPA lives in Medford, and is involved in computer software and platform design for InVisionApp. He is active in the Rogue Hack Lab, and the Rogue Valley microwave mesh network.
Field Day planning session at the meeting, please plan on attending.
Announced in the June 2019 issue of The Repeater.
May 2, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, May 2, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Contesting, Tim Duffy, K3LR
Our program this month is a special treat. Tim Duffy, K3LR, well known contester, DXer, President of DX Engineering and all-around great guy will be presenting on contesting.
Biography: Tim Duffy, K3LR— Tim has been an active amateur radio operator for 47 years. He has hosted 132 different operators from around the world as part of the K3LR Multi-Multi DX radio sport contest efforts since 1992. He is a founding member and current President of the North Coast Contesters. K3LR serves as chairman of Contest University (13 years), the Dayton Contest Dinner (27 years), chairman of the Top Band Dinner – as well as coordinator of the Contest Super Suite (34 years) in Dayton during the yearly Hamvention. Tim was elected to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame in 2006. Tim is the Chief Operating Officer and General Manager at DX Engineering.
Announced in the May 2019 issue of The Repeater.
April 4, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Tracking, Scott Cummings, NA7OM
This program will be about tracking down (finding) and reducing or eliminating Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) around your ham station.
Announced in the April 2019 issue of The Repeater.
March 7, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Radio Contesting—Moving to the next Level, John Laybourne, W8WOM
John Laybourne, W8WOM will present on how to improve your contesting score. There are a lot of thing one can do to increase both quantity of contacts and the number of multipliers.
Biography: John is the RVARC club president.
Announced in the March 2019 issue of The Repeater.
February 7, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: Flex Radio SDR, Michael Walker, VA3MW
Michael Walker, VA3MW will present on Flex Radio.
- SDR radio and the Flex implementation and how we leveraged it, filters, noise blankers, etc.
- Designed for simple and easy station integration - not limited to just 1 RS232 port like all other radios.
- Remoting of HF radio for either your friends to share or a more detailed station that is 100% remote.
- Product overview of the models Flex has for sale and trade-in programs
Biography: Michael Walker, VA3MW is a product manager for Flex Radio Systems in Austin, Texas.
The group order for the Ed Fong antennas and accessories closes at the Feb 7 2019 club meeting. Must bring filled-out form and check to the February 7, 2019 Club Meeting.
Announced in the February 2019 issue of The Repeater.
January 3, 2019 Club Meeting
Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: VHF/UHF Base Station Antenna, Edison Fong, WB6IQN
Edison Fong will present on VHF and UHF base station antennas that you can build yourself.
Biography: Ed Fong was first licensed in 1968 as WN6IQN. He later upgraded to Extra Class (passing the 20 WPM CW) with his present call of WB6IQN. He obtained the BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Univ. of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the Univ. of San Francisco. A Senior Member of the IEEE, he has 12 patents and over 40 published papers and books in the area of communications and integrated circuit design. Presently, he is employed by the University of California (previously at Berkeley and presently at Santa Cruz –Silicon Valley) as an instructor teaching graduate classes in RF design and High Speed interface design. During his 35 year career he has performed worked for Motorola, National Semiconductor, Phillips Semiconductor and Advanced Micro Devices.
Announced in the January 2019 issue of The Repeater.
December 15, 2018 Club Meeting
Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 6:30 PM N5EG QTH, 3950 Southview Ter., Medford, OR
Program: Holiday Pot-luck party
The club’s annual holiday pot-luck party (in lieu of the December meeting) will be held Saturday, December 15th, starting at 6:30 PM at Tom (N5EG’s) house: 3950 Southview Ter., Medford, OR 97504. North of Cherry Lane in east Medford. The date had to move a bit due to avoid a schedule conflict with the CARE December meeting.
Announced in the December 2018 issue of The Repeater.
November 1, 2018 Club Meeting
Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7:00 PM Medford Police Department Community Room, 219 S. Ivy St., Medford, OR
Program: LF and VLF History, Lud Sibley
Low Frequency and Very Low Frequency (LF and VLF) equipment and history. With the opening of the 630 meter and 2200 meter amateur bands several years ago, hams have the chance to experiment with very different equipment and antennas. There is a long record of amateur and commercial LF radio equipment and Lud will present some of that history.
Lud Sibley is former club treasurer and the Rogue Valley’s resident historian on things vacuum tube, and related.
Club elections will be held at the November meeting.
Announced in the November 2018 issue of The Repeater.
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