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Pasadena Radio Club W6KA P.O BOX 282 Altadena, CA 91003


 

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Meetings
The club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month except December,  at 7:00 PM at the Walnut Center location of Kaiser Permanente, 393 E. Walnut Street. Enter at the northern entrance to the parking structure on Los Robles north of Walnut. Press the button and tell the security officer "Radio Club" to get the gate opened. Sign in at the security desk and follow the crowd to the meeting room on the first floor. Board of Directors meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at the same location.
 
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Weekly two-meter net and repeater frequencies

Except on meeting night (the fourth Tuesday of January through November) the Club meets on the air at 7:00 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday evenings. The two meter net is conducted on the Telephone Company repeater.The Club does not have its own repeater. We use the following repeaters with the kind permission of their respective owners:
 
Telephone Company ARC W6MPH 145.180 (-) PL 156.7
JPL ARC WR6JPL 147.150 (+) PL 103.5
JPL ARC WR6JPL 224.080 (-) PL 156.7
JPL ARC WR6JPL 445.20 (-) PL 103.5
Mountain Repeater Assn. K6VE 224.480 (-) PL 110.9

Club Packet mailbox W6KA-10 145.630  Node=MIRDOR
    w/crosslink to 2M
 W6KA-10 223.600  
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Peter Fogg, KA6RJF, President 


Read this month's electronic version of the bulletin!  It contains extra picture pages not included in the printed version and it is in glorious color.  See
Bulletins

This month's bulletin contains information about Field Day to be held at  the Art Center, College of Design at the South Parking Lot of the Hillside Campus at 1700 Lida Street,  Pasadena, CA 91103 (on the hill above and west of the Rose Bowl).  Follow the Art Center road all the way to the end and the site will be on the southeast corner of the parking lot.

Field Day 2008 Site Location Map

Membership
Download Membership Form
Print and mail with your check.

Anyone interested in Amateur Radio is welcome to join the club. Dues are $30 per year, payable in January of each year. Membership is on a calendar year basis, and there are reduced rates for new members joining after April ($22.50 if joining in May through August, $15 if joining in September through December).  Impecunious students may join for $15. 
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Bulletin LogoThe Bulletin of the Pasadena Radio Club
The current club Bulletin can be viewed by clicking here
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Note From May 2007 Club Meeting

The speaker, Malcom Levy KO6SY, gave a great talk on remote operation of your radio station.  He had lots of great slides.  We have obtained copies of his presentation for your information.
                                     In PowerPoint          remotebaseops.ppt
                                     In Adobe Reader     remotebaseops.pdf



Note from the Webmaster.  I have added several items for the members to try and let me know if you want to keep them.  Due to spam there are several people who will check the messages.  Once the message is approved it will be added.  I will be removing them if no one is using them.  The items I added were:
         Message Board of the Pasadena Radio Club
         Journal, Blog or Forum of the Pasadena Radio Club
         Live Chat Room

Message Board of Pasadena Radio Club
Please check out both the Message Board and the Journal and see which one is better for our needs.  Let me know at  ae6wt@arrl.net
Link to So Cal Area Swap meets


Journal, Blog or Forum of Pasadena Radio Club
Please check out both the Message Board and the Journal and see which one is better for our needs.  Let me know at  ae6wt@arrl.net


Free Blog from Bravenet.com 


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Upcoming Events

This listing is both upcomming events to attend and enjoy as well as events where you can volunteer your radio skills or improve your skills

Please volunteer and share you hobby with others by providing a necessary service.  Who knows, you might be sharing your information with a future ham.

Volunteers needed to provide radio communications 
at all of the following events.

More events will added so check back here often.

Most events are done with HT's and some require 
Mobile Radios.

Mark your calendars!
Contact any of the officers for information

Boy Scout Expo, 1st Saturday in June 7 June 2008
Senior Olympics, Rose Bowl, Pasadena 21 June 2008
June VHF QSO Party 14-16 June 2008
Field Day, Last full weekend in June 28 and 29 June 2008
Mt Disappointment 50 K/50M  Endurance Runs 9 August 2008
Southwest ARRL Convention, Mesa, AZ
12-14 September 2008
Angeles Crest 100 Mile Endurance Run, Wrightwood to Rose Bowl 13 & 14 September 2008
CA QSO Party, First Weekend in October on HF 4 & 5 October 2008
Pacifcon, Pacific Division ARRL Convention, San Ramon, SF Bay Area 17 - 19 October 2008
Crop Walk (not in Pasadena in 2008)
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PRC Holiday Party  at November Meeting 25 November 2008
Los Angeles Marthon TBD   March 2009
Environmental Fair, LA. Co. Arboretum, Arcadia TBD   March 2009
Leona Divide 50 Mile Run  April 2009
Baker to Vegas Run  March 2009
Altadena Tour of Homes  May 2009
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FOR SALE by the Club
Quad Antenna Frame, 3 band, needs rebuilding                                 $100 OBO
(See Dave Rumph, AE6DR, he rebuilt one of these recently) 
Contact Dave Basset, KE6AYI for details.
WANTED by the Club
20' Cargo Container or Trailer to store club owned Equipment
Location to store Container or Trailer, prefer a free site.
Contact Board Members or Peter Fogg, KA6RJF W6KA@arrl.net

 
 
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Officers and Board of Directors
Four officers (President, Vice-president, Secretary, and Treasurer) are elected for one year terms. According to the By-Laws, they may not be reelected to the same office two years in a row. There are three Directors at large elected for one year terms (may be reelected) and four immediate past officers are members of the Board of Directors.

Activities
As a volunteer organization, activities will vary as the interests of the membership vary, but traditionally include Club meetings, usually with guest speakers, a Club banquet meeting in December, Field Day -- conducted now at Burbank School on Allen in Altadena, a picnic in late summer, and occasional building projects. Some highlights from the Club's history include the first Amateur Radio Station to ride in a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Special Event Station fielded in honor of the re-opening of the Colorado Street Bridge over the Arroyo Seco.

Education
The Club supports Classes in preparation for the Technician examinations, currently offered once a year. For dates and times, call Mark Seigel (W6MES) @ 818 951-6369 or ad6kp@arrl.net.   ARRL VE examination sessions are held at the end of each class sequence, and at other times during the year as needed.The following Club members have volunteered to be available as "Elmers" to help fellow members with problems and questions relating to Ham Radio and Computers:
Phil Barnes-Roberts  WA6DZS
(626) 791-0851 Antennas, building
Allen Hubbard  N6VTX
(626) 794-4744 Radio installations, VHF, packet, APRS
Mark Seigel  W6MES
(818) 951-6369 ad6kp@arrl.net Kit building, net control, packet

Public Service
The Club provides communications for a variety of events, among which have  numbered the AIDS Service Center Posada, the Angeles Crest 100 Mile Race, the Super Cities MS Walk, the Pasadena Senior Olympics, the CROP Walk for Hunger, the Bowl to Bowl Seniors walk, and the La Cañada Flintridge Fiesta Days Family Bike Ride for Pride, the diabetes walk. In addition, club members are active in Los Angeles County Disaster Communication Service and in the Pasadena Emergency Communications Group.

Members-only eGroup
The Club also has a members-only e-mail list, that allows us to get the word out quickly to those who might not be on 2M-FM every day, and pass on interesting juicy bits to the rest of the group.  Point your e-mail program to- mailto:PRC-Club-subscribe@yahoogroups.com -and send a (blank) message, and if you are a current, paid-up member, you will soon get a confirmation message back from the moderator(s), Phil WA6DZS or Michael KK6WO.  There's no SPAM, and there's a Website to post pictures, files, whatever you want to share with your Club.  It is currently set up to send meeting reminders, and if it gets to be too much traffic, you can set it for daily digests, or  Web-only access, and just go to the Website when you want to see what's been posted lately.
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WE CELEBRATED!!!

Pasadena Radio Club, Inc. W6KA celebrated its 50th Anniversary with a Special Event Station.  It was held Saturday, 26th of May 2007.  Thank you to Peter Fogg for organizing the event.  It was a great time with pizza, veggies, chips, sodas and a big cake and lots of contacts.  Special thanks to Tom Damberger who provided a hydrogen fuel cell to power our radios and to the others who brought their equipment and antennae.

Remember, if you worked our station please send your QSL card to us and we will confirm the contact and send you a certificate.  Send your card to:        PASADENA RADIO CLUB, INC.  W6KA
                            P. O. Box 282
                            Altadena, CA  91003-0282

Some of the notables were Bruce N1BN, John AC6VV, Hal KF6RRR, Mike KF6FEM, May KE6QVJ,  Eli W6ELI, Phil WA6DZS, Donna KE6PNC, Leonard KC6KUI + Donna + Sandy, Jacob KD5FEG.  If you were there and you aren't mentioned here, let me know and I will add you to this page and then to the archive. 

Help will be needed to complete the QSL cards and the certificates.  Thank you to all who helped celebrate the 50th Aniversary of Pasadena Radio Club, W6KA. 


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Useful WWW Links
The Links page has been revised to include only a few unusual or gateway sites. The gateway sites lead to many other ham radio resources.
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