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Santa Clara County Amateur Radio Association
SCCARA
was formed as a general interest amateur radio club in 1921
and became a non-profit corporation in 1947.
SCCARA
is an affiliate of the American
Radio Relay League
and the Santa Clara Valley Section of the Pacific Division of the ARRL.
This
meeting is the second Monday
of each month at 7:30PM.
Visitors are always welcome to attend the club meeting.
NOTICE:
Club P.O.Box is now
SCCARA
P.O.Box 106
San Jose CA 95103-0106
Working on finding & correcting all address references.
UPDATED INFORMATION:
MEETING 02/13/12
Meet in Room 125 Main hospital -
see SCCARA-GRAM
Up, up, and Away.
Our February speaker will be Ian Kluft, KO6YQ,
speaking on the Amateur Radio balloon distance/duration world record set by CNSP-11 from San Jose.
Meeting Talk in on Repeater if necessary.
The meeting is at THE NEW KAISER HOSPITAL off
HOMESTEAD & LAWRENCE EXPY, SANTA CLARA CA.
Building 710, Conference room 196, Rooms A1
Parking lot B is closest, use the 'WEST' entry (right side)
watch for conference room 196 walk straight in & look left.
Directions:
From Lawrence Expressway turn WEST on Homestead
then LEFT (South) into the parking lot.
Lot B is the middle lot.
When entering the Homestead driveway you are facing the main hospital,
Our building is just to the left of it.
Talk in if needed on 2M Repeater : 146.985 (-) 114.8 tone
MEETING 03/12/12
John Rosica KA2FND on NVIS antennas
with a live demonstration.
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The April meeting will be a family dinner meeting.
Details & Location to be determined.
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MEETING of 1/9/12
The
January 9th SCCARA General meeting featured a presentation by Rick Ferranti,
W6NIR:
Calling All Rangers: A History of Radio Development in the US Forest Service,
1930 – 1960
In Ricks own words:
When the USDA Forest Service (USFS) was established more than a century ago,
the only way to report a forest fire was by horseback or on foot. A few years
later, field telephones came into use, but lines were strung only to a few
lookouts, and almost never to the fire line. It was radio that brought instant
communications from ranger station to fire camp to smokejumper, greatly enhancing
firefighter effectiveness and safety.
Spearheaded by a grizzled forest ranger and radio hobbyist in 1927, the USFS
pioneered the development of compact, rugged, simple field communications
gear in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930's and 40's. A handful of forestry
engineers, almost all of them radio amateurs, solved the problems of radioing
through heavy timber and over mountains, becoming the first to discover and
exploit a new high-frequency skywave propagation mode. Their VHF equipment
surpassed all others in portability, performance, and innovation. This presentation
will feature dozens of vintage photographs, a film excerpt, and exhibits and
demos of rare Forestry radio gear dating from spark transmission to a 1930's
HF QRP portable transceiver.
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Portable USFS HF transceiver in operation at the Bull Lake Fire, Kootenai
National Forest, 1939
Rick Ferranti is a Principal Research Engineer at SRI International (formerly
Stanford Research Institute) in Menlo Park. Though a Bay Area native, he lived
near Boston for over two decades, where he was an Associate Group Leader at
MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Rick has given many presentations on radio and radar
history, at MIT, Stanford, Lockheed Martin, the IEEE, at the Dayton Hamvention,
and for the US Forest Service. He has been a licensed amateur radio operator
for over 40 years, and lives in San Carlos with his wife, two sons (both amateurs)
and a garage full of old electronics.
Link to pictures from Picnic: Picnic 2011
SCCARA News letter link
SCCARAGRAM-current . . . . SCCARAGRAM-last month
Want a copy of a prior SCCARAGRAM?
for Prior: contact editor Gary WB6YRU
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From our February 14, 2011 Regular meeting The February SCCARA meeting featured Rich Harrington, WA6GJF/KN6FW, speaking on T Hunting. As his first call suggests Rich has been at this since 1962. Rich got part of his T-Hunting skills in the US Navy where it is a serious business. Rich is now retired from Pacific Bell so he can devote his time to designing, building, and using DF equipment.
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LINK TO PRIOR PRESENTATION:
"How to radiate a big signal from a small lot."
Link to talk given 9/8/08 is below.
Mr.Badger has been a ham since 1939. He graduated from U C Berkeley in Electrical Engineering.
He has had many articles published in both the professional and amateur press.
Regretfully Mr Badger passed on 11/15/09 at 84 years.
The W6TC DX Loop presented by George Badger
( http://www.ae6pm.com/Shared.htm)
Radio Room Open Monthly.
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The
club board meeting is held the third Monday of each month
at the San Jose Red Cross building, 2731 N 1st Street, San Jose, CA at 7:30PM.
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current information regarding the local volunteer license examiner
program in relationship with ARRL?
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