Announcement by KE6JGM
There Will Be Testing At Bob Brown’s House
May 16th @ 8am
Announcement by KN6RBP
Our Board Meeting this month, is one hour earlier 10:00 Saturday, July 25th.
It will be at the usual location, J&M. 10am. Come at 9am for breakfast prior to the meeting.
Agenda:
- Reports from Secretary & Treasurer
Old Business
- Net Control Managers and operators (establish a NCS list and Calendar)
- Christmas Dinner Choices
- Spring Breakfast Fundraiser reports and review.
- N6CG & N7OD Lifetime club membership. (Idea put forward by KN6RBP)
- Veterans Net
New Business
- Proposal from Terry KO6ALP
- Treasurer obligations evaluation. (Ways of making the position easier to fill)
- Suggestion from KE6JGM
- Review the Website Progress Report and Priority List, including accomplishments, open website priorities, board-meeting roadmap, and next steps for auditing, cleanup, and prioritization.
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Our Meeting is August 19th 6:30PM at 1111 S. State St. Right off of Stetson, sharing the same lot with J&M.
Meeting Agenda:
- Ray Charles – America The Beautiful
- Pledge of Allegiance
Old Business
- Reports from Secretary & Treasurer (Karen to give report for May)
- Summer Field Day Discussion
New Business
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Summer Field Day 2024
Summer Field Day is June 22th & 23th
Operations 11am Sat – 11am Sun
Join us at McSweeney Park for for our summer field day event.
McSweeney Parkway, Hemet, CA 92543.
No club membership is required and all are welcome! Bring friends and family.
There will be testing Saturday morning at 9am.
We’ll have 3 HF stations in operation and a GOTA station. We will operate Phone and FT8 on all eligible bands.
Join us in the morning on Saturday for breakfast. We’ll have Breakfast Burritos! Prepared fresh on-site. Tickets are $10 per person.
We are there setting up at 7am. Come early and help out. See how antenna systems are set up. It’s fun and much appreciated. The more the merrier as they say. If you can come early please let us know during this net if possible.
There will also be demonstrations throughout the day, like HT antenna testing, Satellite communications, Antenna Tuning with Nano VNA, FT8 operations, and of course, Phone contacting and logging.
We’ll enjoy Hamburgers & Hot Dogs on Saturday for lunch.
Tickets are $5 for 1 hamburger or 2 hot dogs.
For dinner we’ll have Carne Asada tacos. 2 for $5.
Then we make contacts all night. We’re always a bit short on operators over night so that’s a great time to come out as well.
On Sunday morning we’ll have Breakfast Croissants. Tickets for those are $5.
Water as well as a diluted Gatorade mix will be available throughout our time there. As well as restroom’s during the day and a commercial portapotty for use overnight.
Some of the Raffle Prizes
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6 Great prizes and great odds!
We are lagging in our projected ticket sales. That means your odds are better than they should be. Check out our new and nifty ticket mixer. Then buy some tickets at our club meeting. Thank You & Good Luck!
Items so far:
- 1 Yaesu FTM-200
- 1 Yaesu 70D & PiStar Combo Prize
- 1 Yaesu 70D & PiStar Combo Prize (70D donated by N6DMP & PiStar donated by KN6RBP).
- 1 In House built open stub jpole
- 1 In House built open stub jpole
- ARRL Antenna Book
Tickets are:
- $ 5.00 = 1 Ticket
- $20.00 = 5 Tickets
- $40.00 = 12 Tickets
- $50.00 = 15 Tickets
- $100.00 = 35 Tickets
Tickets will be available at any LDARC event. Or call KN6MJS.
Bands & Modes 6-18-24
Tuesday
Early Net, 6:30 PM (1830) to 7:00 PM (1900). (Repeater)
Regular Net, 7:15 PM (1915) to 8:00 PM (2000). (Repeater)
10 meter Eagle Net, 8:00 PM (2000) to 9:00 PM (2100), 28.360 Mhz USB
Eagle Net Bands & Modes (subject to change)
Anytime after 15min of operations on our 10M Frequency, we will move to a different band.
Third Tuesday of the month NEW LDARC HF Contact Contest.
Wednesday is our club meeting so there is no digital only net or digital only after hours this week.
Bands & Modes schedule, changes from time to time. So keep an eye on our website for updates.
Lets have some fun, and change up Bands & Modes a bit.
On the third Tuesday for bands and modes, from 20:30 to 21:00 we work for points, fun & prestige. all while improving our HF capabilities.
Here’s the plan.
- 2 Points for any QSO on any band, using any mode.
- 1 point for any QSO another station makes using the frequency you shared with the group.
1 bonus point for each QSO you post on QRZ.com
And for those of you who really want get big points,
10 points for any CW contact on any band.
Finally, as an incentive to help new hams use the tech area of 10M
2 bonus points for any QSO made by you or another station you sent to the tech area of the 10M band.
Our regular 10M frequency will continue to be our net frequency.
Points and frequency’s are to be reported to net control. Only then do the points count.
Net control will also keep track of who found a frequency we use for a QSO’s.
The winner will receive an official, LDARC, ATABOY.
All QSO’s must be made using modes and frequencies indicated on the icom band plan linked here
As always, only operate within the parameters of your FCC license.
I just made all of this up so any feedback you have will be appreciated.
