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The Lee DeForest Amateur Radio Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. 

How to report malicious conduct to the FCC

Amateur Radio Complaints

Amateur radio complaints should be as specific as possible, citing dates, times, and frequencies on which alleged violations occurred. Complaints should also include a name and telephone number where the complainant can be reached for further details, if necessary. Please submit your complaints/concerns regarding amateur radio to the Commission’s on-line complaint system. The appropriate form for your complaint can be found here: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov and click on the radio icon.

Willful or Malicious Interference Complaints

Section 97.101(d) of the Commission’s Rules prohibits amateur operators from willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to any radio communication or signal. 47 C.F.R. § 97.101(d).

The Spectrum Enforcement Division, in conjunction with the Regional and Field Offices, is responsible for responding to complaints of willful and/or malicious interference among amateur radio service licensees.

 

https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/guides/amateur-radio-complaints

LDARC February Monthly Club Meeting

Time: Wednesday 2-19-25 at 6:30

Meeting Agenda:

  • Presentation by Bob Brehm, AK6R
  • New Net’s Activated
  • Winter Field Day Wrap-up
  • Atta-Boy Acknowledgements

Bob Brehm, AK6R

Bob Brehm, AK6R is Chief Engineer of Palomar Engineers (www.Palomar-Engineers.com), and has been a ham for over 50 years with experience.

Bob Brehm is often asked to speak at conventions and radio club meetings about RFI, antenna matching, using baluns, stealth antennas, amplitude modulation, RTTY/digital modes, ESSB, ham radio on boats, and a variety of other subjects.

He has previously given presentations to our club on RFI and EndFed antennas.
This time he comes in person with what I believe will be partly a new presentation he’s working on, and some information on POTA antennas, baluns. He also will be bringing some handouts. Please be there if you can. It’s going to be a Great Presentation geared to what we have been doing lately. Followed by a Great Q&A. I promised to fill the room so be there or be somewhere else.

LDARC Feburary Board Meeting

Our Board Meeting this month is on Saturday the 22nd.
It will be at the usual location, J&M. 11am. Come at 9am for breakfast prior to the meeting.

Agenda:

  • Winter Field Day wrap up
  • SOTA Big Bear
  • Upcoming Events Dates & Details.
  • 2nd Repeater Location
  • New Nets & IRLP net
  • Allocation of Funds

New Saturday Night Net 75 Meters 3.888 Mhz Saturday Night

This new net is a Roundtable Net and starts at 6:30PM till whenever.
75 Meters EVERY Saturday night.

New Simplex Net on Sunday Nights!

We have a new simplex net on Sunday right after out SwapNet.
The net begins on this repeater at 7:30 on LDARC repeater in FM. Net control will provide frequency information. Then we return to the club repeater for the next frequency.
Thank you KO6ALP for being primary net control for this new net. And for putting this net forward as a idea to the club.

Frequencies have been added and some others have been updated.

Primary Simplex, Net & Event frequencies

  • 2M 146.520 Mhz 2M Calling
  • 2M 147.405 Mhz C4FM & FM LTAC1
  • 2M 146.415 Mhz C4FM & FM LTAC2
  • 1.25M 223.500 Mhz 1.25M Calling
  • 1.25M 223.450 Mhz FM LTAC6
  • 70CM 446.000 FM 70CM Calling
  • 70CM 445.950 FM C4FM & FM LTAC3
  • 70CM 446.150 FM C4FM & FM LTAC4
  • 10M 29.600 Mhz 10M FM Calling
  • 10M 29.630 Mhz C4FM & FM LTAC5
  • 2M 144.281 Mhz USB
  • 6M 50.625 Mhz C4FM
  • 6M 51.025 Mhz USB
  • 6M 52.515 Mhz FM
  • 40M 7.238 Mhz LSB
  • 12M 24.976 Mhz USB
  • 15M 21.37 Mhz USB
  • 17M 18.125 Mhz USB
  • 20M 14.265 Mhz USB
  • 60M Ch2 USB
  • 75M 3.920 Mhz LSB
  • 160M 1.930 Mhz LSB

Congratulations to our 2025 Board Members

Congratulations to New and upgraded Licensees.

NEW Lee DeForest Radio Club Swap Net

Sunday’s at 7pm.

This net is C4FM and is on both repeaters as well as
WiresX 01966 & YSF 59073 or 59173

Swap Net So Far 2-16-2025

Selling:

  1. Astatic D104 Microphones $35 each KN6SOJ
  2. Kenwood TS520 Speaker (AS IS) $80 or Trade AC6AR
  3. Kenwood TS520 Frequency Counter (AS IS) $80 or Trade AC6AR
  4. Heathkit HM-102 200/2000 SWR Meter (AS IS) $50 or Trade AC6AR
  5. Kenwood TH-G71A Dual Band HT w/rechargeable battery and AA Battery Pack, Original Box $115 N6DMP
  6. Ameritron RCS-4 Remote Coax Switch $50 or Trade KE6JGM
  7. Ameritron AWM-35 Peak Reading SWR/Wattmeter $150 or trade KE6JGM
  8. MFJ FlexDuck Dual Band MFJ-1717PL Antenna $20 or trade KE6JGM
  9. MFJ MFJ-909 600 Watt Mobile Antenna Matcher $40 or trade KE6JGM
  10. Micronta 144/440 Mhz SWR/Power Meter $20 or trade KE6JGM
  11. Yaesu FT 840 HF rig and MFJ DELUXE VERSA TUNER II MFJ-949E $500 or trade KE6JGM
  12. Heathkit Receiver Model HR-10 as-is $100 or trade KE6JGM
  13. Duplexers, MFJ-916, MFJ-916B, Comet CF-416 $10 or trade KE6JGM
  14. Mars SWR SW-10 $10 or trade KE6JGM
  15. Heathkit HW-5400 HF Transceiver as-is “this is a project” $50 or trade KE6JGM
  16. Yaesu VR 120 Wide Rage Receiver $40 or trade KE6JGM
  17. AOR AR 2700 Wide Range Receiver $40 or trade KE6JGM
  18. AOR AR 8000 Wide Range Receiver $40 or trade KE6JGM
  19. BK Precision 100 Mhz Frequency Counter 1803A as-is $20 or trade KE6JGM
  20. Larsen Kulrod NMO Antenna $2 or trade KE6JGM
  21. Astron SS-25 Power Supply $50 or trade KE6JGM

Wanted:

  1. 100 Watt Amp for QRP HF rig KN6SOJ
  2. Alinco DR-235 K6CED
  3. Icom IC-9700 KO6ALP

GET A NEW LICENSE, OR UPGRADE YOUR CURRENT LICENSE

There Will Be Testing At Rick’s House

Saturday March 15th 2025 @ 8am

Local Licensing Exams
FCC License Testing - All License Classes Amateur Radio Licensing exams are held locally in the Hemet/San Jacinto area by the Lee De Forest Amateur Radio Club, on the 3rd Saturday of odd months, at 0800 ...
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2024 Field Day Pics

Breakfast Fundraiser Pics

Ham Camp Video

Bands & Modes Monthly HF Contest

LDARC Monthly HF Contest Rules

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.

Announcements

Nets Notes

Winter Field Day

Winter Field Day Chili Cook Off

LDARC Membership is due January of each year. If you haven’t paid your dues now is the time. If you would like to become a member you can download the application on our website. Membership must be mailed in or handed to our treasurer.
Click Here For our Membership form.
We also accept ARRL memberships and renewals all year long.
When you pay via our club we get a commission. It’s a great way to support ARRL as well as LDARC.

ARRL Affiliated Club Commission Program

Why subscribe or renew with our club?

  • The ARRL Affiliated Club Commission Program allows ARRL Affiliated Clubs to earn a commission on new and renewing regular memberships.
  • Each new ARRL member earns the club a $15.00 commission. New members are defined as never having been a member or a returning member that has not been a member for two years. Each renewal now earns the club a $5.00 commission. There is no limit to the amount a club can earn in this program.

Your membership supports ARRL’s work to promote and protect amateur radio and provides you with benefits to do more with your amateur radio license.

By renewing or better yet subscribing through our club you not only benefit ARRL, they will return a commission to us.

ARRL fights for our right to use ham radio and with all the bands we enjoy. From field day to learning antenna design, they provide the resources you need.
ARRL membership is a great way to support your operating privileges at every level from Washington to Hemet. Get the most from your callsign by supporting ARRL and of course the Le DeForest amateur radio club.

Use this link to print out the subscription form and turn it in at our next meeting with your payment.

Bands & Modes

What Bands & Modes would you be interested in trying? We have been conducting exercises to test usability, and viability of some Bands and Modes for two way voice communication. Our Eagle Net is every Tuesday at 20:00. Recently we have been moving to other bands and or modes around 20:30. Announcements are made on the preceding Roster Net. We have worked 10, 40, 80 meters. On Wednesday after our Digital Only Net we sometimes move to C4FM on 2 meters. We have also used C4FM on 10m and 70cm …
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Winter Field Day 2023

Winter Field Day 2023…

Diamond Valley Flower Trail

Christmas Award Ceremonies

Cajon Pass Day Trip

Click here for pics video & info of the day.

Candyland Christmas Parade Exibit

SUMMER FIELD DAY VIDEO 2022

Projects

  • KN6UNL Antenna Project
    Last weekend KN6UNL, WK3Y & myself KN6RBP conducted an antenna building bonanza.We built 9 antennas, 5-10 meter roll ups and 4-Open Stub J-Poles. And we have parts ready for 3 more J-Poles. KE6JGM & KN6MJS were on hand for the building of their J-Poles. Thank you Marcos for making … Continue reading →
  • XLX & WiresX! Cross Mode System
  • 2 meter NMO/PL259 antenna project
    SG2000: 144MHz(2m) KE6JGM gave me this antenna without the ground plane. The first time I used it, fortunately, was with the 991a and with swr indicated. After a brief gasp I stopped transmitting and switched out the antenna. I forget what the swr was but it was no good. And … Continue reading →
  • Rick’s Antenna Project
    Been using a Cushcraft R5 as my primary HF antenna. AI6ZW is loaning it to me(thank you Steve). It does 10,12,15,17 & 20 meters. Very effective on FT8. Now Before It worked ok but our primary network switch is just on the other side of the exterior wall where … Continue reading →