Announcement by KE6JGM
There Will Be Testing At Rick’s House
Saturday May 17th 2025 @ 8am
More info on our Local Licensing Exams Page.
Announcement by KN6RBP
Our next after testing workshop will be on the PiStar WPSD dashboard
and steering a PiStar with a Yaesu HT.
I will also demonstrate DMR cross-mode and the settings associated with that.
With PiStar and a Yaesu or DMR HT, the world is in your hand.
I am thrilled to announce the NEW LDARC OnLine Store. You will find Shirts, Hats, Stickers, Coasters for Sale. You can also pay your Membership Dues online. And you can do it with a credit card if you prefer that payment method.
As you know KN6AUV is our webmaster. He keeps the roster current on the site and has done a great job with that along with Testing updates and a lot more. When I talked to him about building a store for our website he wasted no time. So just the way we started one morning over Tuesday breakfast, today, over breakfast the store is online. Duane thank you for doing such a great job and doing it so fast. AttaBoy KN6AUV. This is a dream come true and I think another reason why our club is awesome.
Eagle Net Bands & Modes (subject to change)
The Eagle Net has a new schedule!
- 3rd and 4th week is 40 meters 7.238mhz.
Raffle Tickets are now on sale for our Summer Field Day raffle.
- FTM-150RASP
- Palomar Bullet EF 55″ Complete Kit.
- XIEGU G90 HF RADIO w/ Network and cooling accessories. (Partial Donation from N6CG)
- FT 70D Donated by N6DMP
- Chameleon Antenna CHA SS25
- PiStar Simplex Hotspot (donated by KE6JGM)
- Duplex Hotspot w/color screen (donated by KM6JWS)
- 6 Palomar Mix31 Torr0id Prize is 2 with 3 winners.
- 4 13 turn HF Chokes w/ Palomar Torr0id.
Google Cloud Drive File Links (KJ6ER, January 2025)
- KJ6ER Antennas Primer –
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MxEQ0CfcLBhZ-TKTMg2xiMZeGdjsKnBN/view - PERformer 40M-6M Quarterwave Vertical –
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LwSbXXeovjJdT8ijpOi-9FYR–nNsxgD/view - Challenger 20M-6M Halfwave Vertical –
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Ym2EbsX3F5Zs2oPwLXy-opGgBepnE6g/view - Dominator 17M-10M Halfwave Vertical –
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1QYlNhYp-JY_Azqn0XJWM7q7Tit0x1m/view - Dominator 17M-10M Halfwave 2-Element Vertical Beam –
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-DvVBdEbcXjrCu5khyLeoEp5gsb9wwlA/view
Campbell, California
(650) 714-7577
My letter to Greg,
I just want to thank you for your really great presentation at our club meeting last week. I learned a lot and really was surprised about a few things, especially with regard chokes and efficiency. Really good stuff. You have really refined your information in a way that made pieces fit and lights go on for many of us present that night. More over these antenna designs have reinvented field day for us. We used to deploy EF or G5RV type antennas. It was a real pain to deploy and keep area safe. We now have over 8 people in club with one of those 3 designs (mostly performer). So thank you Sir. Thank you for taking the time to speak to our club. Thank you for all the experimentation and testing you do. And thank you for distilling it so effectively, and making all of it available to the ham community, free of charge.
Rick Gardner KN6RBP
LDARC President
There’s always a lot going on at the Lee DeForest Amateur Radio Club!
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