Santa Clara Valley Section – ARRL

M2 Annual Open House – March 17th, 2012 – Starts at 8am

Bring your swap tables and your appetites! It’s time for the Annual M2 Open House and Bar-B-Q. Gates open for swappers at 7:30 am and the M2 Shop will open at 8:00 for tours, rag chewing and great deals on M2 products. We will raffle off great stuff for Hams and non-Hams. And don’t miss our famous HAM-burgers and goodies. There is no charge to attend!

4402 N. Selland Ave. Fresno, CA 93722 - Tel: (559) 432-8873  http://www.m2inc.com

The ARRL Santa Clara Valley Section Convention – RadioFest Monterey Bay 2012

will be held Saturday, March 3rd, 2012, from 8am to 4pm at the Monterey Moose Family Center, 555 Canyon Del Rey (Hwy 218), Monterey, CA.

Sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School Amateur Radio Club, this event is only $1 to get in! Wow!

Breakfast and Lunch will be served at a great price. There will be tons of commercial vendor booths, ham radio demos, a large indoor/outdoor swap meet, fantastic speakers, raffle prizes and even license exams! For more information check out http://www.radiofest.org . Talk-in 146.970 – pl 94.8

Check out the excitement in our own backyard at Pacificon http://pacificon.org.

Be sure to join us for the SCV Townhall meeting at 10am Saturday morning (Oct15th).

Also here is an update for the section about one of the events:

An opportunity to get education on amateur contesting, including its history, use of loggers and proper operating technique will be presented at Pacificon this sunday morning between 9-11 am by Rob K6RB, Chris N6WM and John K6MM, all well known and respected contesters.  This presentation will be followed by a detailed presentation on how to construct a contest station by Jack KF6T at 11:30.

The schedule on the Pacificon website has been updated to reflect this, but the material presented at the door may not reflect this educational opportunity so I wanted to get the word out to the section.  With 10 meters now regularly open, the entire Amateur community from Novice/Technician to Extra,  can benefit from this fun and engaging part of the hobby. Please take an opportunity to attend.

This is an an abbreviated version of material regularly presented at the NCCC Contest Academy in Visalia during the International DX convention,  that has always received high marks from its attendees.  I hope you have an opportunity to attend.

From the Electronics Flea Market website:

Urgent Note: The flea market scheduled for September 10th has been canceled due to construction in the parking lots on campus. We are considering rescheduling the market for another date and will post here when it has been decided. The October flea market will happen as scheduled on October 8th.

Ham Radio Convention is Bigger & Better at New Santa Clara Venue
October 14-16, 2011, Santa Clara Marriott Hotel
Santa Clara, California

For Events, Latest Updates and Ticket Sales go to:
www.PACIFICON.org

Call the Marriott Hotel Reservations Desk at 1-800-228-9290,
before September 28, 2011, to ask for the special Pacificon rate of $109/night.

PACIFICON 2011 Events, Forum Topics, and Exhibits Include:

**  Friday All-Day Antenna Seminar ** Friday Legal Seminar ** Friday Evening Open MDARC Meeting
**  Saturday Keynote Breakfast & Evening Banquet ** Outstanding Technical Forums ** Exciting Ham Equipment Exhibitors

**  Great Saturday & Sunday Swap Meets ** Daily Radio Prize Drawings ** Transmitter Hunts, Beginner & Advanced
**  ATV Activities **  HFpack and QRP Activities ** Ham License Exams ** Saturday All-Day Technician License Class

**  Leo Laporte “The Tech Guy” Live radio broadcast ** Boy Scouts JOTA Station** ARRL Forum
**  Satellite Communication & Mobile Station ** KPH Marine Live ** HF RTTY Live ** HF Marine RTTY Press Transmissions Live

**  Projects and Forums for Students and Young Amateurs ** Original Collins Radio Van ** WWII Mobile Radio Command
**  Amateur Fire Communications Center

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Important:  Please Note that in August, NCDXC will not be holding their regular member meeting on the usual third Thursday of the month.

The next regular meeting of the NCDXC is September 15, 2011, in  San Jose, CA.

NCDXC held its summer picnic in Los Altos on August 13th with a nice turnout, great weather and food. To learn more about NCDXC activities visit their webpage

Each year the Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS) commemorates 12 July 1999, the date on which the supposed last commercial morse message was sent in the US. On that date we pick up the thread, keep the faith and maintain the traditions of maritime radio communications so that the skills and traditions of all the radiotelegraphers who came before us will be maintained.

While MRHS station KSM is on the air every Saturday, on Night of Nights we originate stations KPH and KFS in addition to KSM. We will joined on the air by KLB, WLO and KKUI. For more information, please visit: http://radiomarine.org.

You can participate by listening or by visiting the ex-RCA receive site to see the action in person. If you’d like to operate K6KPH just bring your key. No license required!

Here are the details of the event:

Date: 12 July 2011 Pacific time, 13 July gmt
Doors open: 3:00pm Pacific time
On air time: 5:01pm Pacific time, 0001 gmt

Again for detailed operating schedule and all the details, please check out http://radiomarine.org.

The Electronics Flea Market “swap meet” is held on the second Saturday (pre dawn) of each month, March through October (schedule) (flyer [PDF]). The next Flea market is scheduled for Saturday, July 9th and is hosted by  FARS – Foothills Amateur Radio Society.  The flea market is organized by ASVARO for the benefit of non-profit amateur radio organizations in the Silicon Valley. The flea market was held in Sunnyvale in 2004-2005 and in previous years at Foothill College in Los Altos. The organizations that participate in the flea markets are active in amateur radio education, emergency communications, and civic support activities. If you would like to receive a reminder of each month’s flea market and other news about the market, sign up on their email list.