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Reminder: 40M Local Net 1900 Local Time 7.242 LSB When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 7:00pm to 7:30pm (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles Organizer: Dave Schmidt AI6VX View Event Description: 1900 Local Time 40M net on 7.242 LSB. If the frequency is busy, check 5 Khz below or above as we may have moved there, or check your email as I will try to email the Groups.io list with our new frequency To help with coordination, please tune to 147.515 Mhz simplex! This will allow us to let each other know if we moved to another frequency, or if band conditions are poor and we want to try a different band.

2M/70cm Net When: Monday, March 10, 2025 8:00pm to 9:00pm (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles Where: On the air and over Zoom Organizer: Dave Schmidt View Event Description: Please join us for our Monday Night Net. Mondays 8:00pm using the PVARC linked repeaters Sulphur Mtn: 445.56 141.3 / 440.56 141.3 -Linked 145.20 127.3 / 144.60 127.3 -Linked South Mountain: 447.48 156.7 / 442.48 156.7 -Linked Camarillo Hills: 445.60 141.3 / 440.60 141.3 – Linked Topic: VCARC Monday Night 2M Net Zoom Meeting Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93897897253?pwd=PfXTihkUeZNaOCnU1VAbYvuRe9AdRg.1 Meeting ID: 938 9789 7253 Passcode: 323972 --- One tap mobile +16699009128,,93897897253#,,,,*323972# US (San Jose) +16694449171,,93897897253#,,,,*323972# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 386 347 5053 US ? +1 507 473 4847 US ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 689 278 1000 US ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 360 209 5623 US Meeting ID: 938 9789 7253 Passcode: 323972 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFVuvKycL

Good morning, Mountains to Beach marathon is now 5 weeks away. Thanks to all who have signed up so far. We still need 5 more station operators and 2-3 additional SAG drivers. Please let me know if you are available and willing to work the event. Weather should be good and this is always a fun event. Please forgive the multiple mailings but I'm trying to cast a broad net. Thanks in advance. 73, Burt KA6BJA bjauerbach@...

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Reminder: K6MEP Board Meeting When: Sunday, March 9, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles Where: Zoom Organizer: Dave Schmidt View Event Description: Our monthly club board meeting is tonight, Sunday March 9th at 7pm over Zoom. Zoom details below. Topic: K6MEP March 9th 2025 Board Meeting Time: Mar 9, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/95144436743?pwd=YCBuYhVzusPvbYRkxToXPW3YYo211E.1 Meeting ID: 951 4443 6743 Passcode: 370425 --- One tap mobile +16699009128,,95144436743#,,,,*370425# US (San Jose) +16694449171,,95144436743#,,,,*370425# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 689 278 1000 US ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 360 209 5623 US ? +1 386 347 5053 US ? +1 507 473 4847 US Meeting ID: 951 4443 6743 Passcode: 370425 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abGq0OamOb

Reminder: 10M Local Net 1600 PDT 28.395 USB When: Sunday, March 9, 2025 4:00pm to 4:30pm (UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles Organizer: David Schmidt View Event Description: 1600 PDT 28.395 Mhz USB If the frequency is busy, check 5 Khz below or above as we may have moved there Get on the air and see who you can hear! A good way for Technicians to participate on HF as they are allowed a small slice of 10M. Edit: Moved time to 4pm (0000 UTC) so we are not in the last hour of various contests through the year.

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Late on Friday we got the approval for μField Day...for THIS SUNDAY! Yes, this is very short notice, but we're not letting that hold us back. March 9th, 2025, and the same site we've been using lately. Yeah, it's very short notice, but the weather is going to be beautiful and it's always a good time. Same location, at the Ventura County Fire Department’s training ground at Camarillo Airport. This is at the east end of Durley avenue, and I’ll have some signs there. Or set your nav to 34.2084, -119.0722. 11:00 am to 3:00 pm as always. Bring a radio, HF setup, or nothing at all-there are always people with radios set up waiting for someone to have a turn at it. Just be there! Keith W6KMEkeith@... Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

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I am sending out this email so folks can free up their calendars for these club events happening this month. All will occur at Grace Lutheran Church 6190 Telephone Rd, Ventura 93003. Map link is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/TpP7S7s3SBxQMnx59 Friday March 14 7pm - Monthly club meeting. Guest speaker will be Ed Fong WB6IQN, of Ed Fong Antennas, who will be giving a presentation on VHF/UHF antennas. Saturday March 22 8:30am - VE session. Ready to upgrade? Have a friend looking to get their license? Do you like taking tests with paper and pencil vs on a computer screen? We have room for you! Send an email to licensing@... to register your spot. Saturday March 22 11am - 2pm - Picnic and Portable Operations. Picnic is potluck style but the club will supply hamburgers, hot dogs and bottled water. You bring something to share (your favorite side dish, fruit, etc) Bring your radio! Field Day is only 3 months away - test your setup BEFORE FD! Are you a new ham? Come on out, see what operating HF portable is like, and make a contact! Any licensed ham can participate as we will have 'control operators' at the stations. There will be different antenna types, go-boxes, and rigs to view. Mark your calendars! Dave AI6VX

Hello all! The Ventura County Amateur Radio Society (VCARS) will be hosting a Contesting and HF clinic for Newly Licensed (within the last 3 years) Operators. This will take place on April 13th 2025 in Newbury Park. We will be setting up a full station with logging capability to allow new hams to experience contesting during the ARRL Rookie Roundup. We will have experienced operators and contesters there to guide and teach the participants during the event! Any licensed ham can participate at this event regardless of license class. We will have many control operators that can allow you to operate on the HF bands. If you are interested in this unique opportunity to dive into the fun and competitive world of contesting please contact me directly at stu@... I look forward to being one of you guides in this amazing learning opportunity. Looking forward to hearing from you all, Stu AG6AG stu@...

Reminder: 40M Local Net 1900 Local Time 7.242 LSB When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7:00pm to 7:30pm (UTC-08:00) America/Los Angeles Organizer: Dave Schmidt AI6VX View Event Description: 1900 Local Time 40M net on 7.242 LSB. If the frequency is busy, check 5 Khz below or above as we may have moved there, or check your email as I will try to email the Groups.io list with our new frequency To help with coordination, please tune to 147.515 Mhz simplex! This will allow us to let each other know if we moved to another frequency, or if band conditions are poor and we want to try a different band.

Reminder: 2M/70cm Net When: Monday, March 3, 2025 8:00pm to 9:00pm (UTC-08:00) America/Los Angeles Where: On the air and over Zoom Organizer: Dave Schmidt info@... View Event Description: Please join us for our Monday Night Net. Mondays 8:00pm using the PVARC linked repeaters Sulphur Mtn: 445.56 141.3 / 440.56 141.3 -Linked 145.20 127.3 / 144.60 127.3 -Linked South Mountain: 447.48 156.7 / 442.48 156.7 -Linked Camarillo Hills: 445.60 141.3 / 440.60 141.3 – Linked Topic: VCARC Monday Night 2M Net Zoom Meeting Time: Dec 23, 2024 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Every week on Mon, 10 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93897897253?pwd=PfXTihkUeZNaOCnU1VAbYvuRe9AdRg.1 Meeting ID: 938 9789 7253 Passcode: 323972 --- One tap mobile +16699009128,,93897897253#,,,,*323972# US (San Jose) +16694449171,,93897897253#,,,,*323972# US --- Dial by your location ? +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) ? +1 669 444 9171 US ? +1 719 359 4580 US ? +1 253 205 0468 US ? +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) ? +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) ? +1 386 347 5053 US ? +1 507 473 4847 US ? +1 564 217 2000 US ? +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) ? +1 646 931 3860 US ? +1 689 278 1000 US ? +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) ? +1 305 224 1968 US ? +1 309 205 3325 US ? +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) ? +1 360 209 5623 US Meeting ID: 938 9789 7253 Passcode: 323972 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFVuvKycL

Welcome to March! Can you believe that it is almost time to change our clocks again? The above screenshot was taken from timeanddate.com shows the hours of daylight each day for the whole year - the stepped offset is where the time changes and the white vertical bars shows our current date. On March 9 we will set our clocks forward 1 hour. I’ll be happy to have more light in the evenings, and I think this time change will help our 40M net on Wednesday, though 40m conditions have been pretty good this past month. In February we had a very interesting talk from Paul Strauss WD6EBY on his work implementing a simulcast repeater system. For those that missed it, when complete, Paul’s system will allow you to communicate on one frequency seamlessly anywhere in Ventura County. You would no longer have to switch between different repeater frequencies depending on location. This technology is already being used with public service agencies and it’s amazing to hear that we will also have this capability. Thank you Paul! Also in February, 15 of the 57 ham operators (26%) that volunteered for the Ventura Marathon were from our club! Thanks to all those that provided communications and assistance for the event. Organized once again by Burt KA6BJA, everything went smoothly. Volunteering to operate at marathons is a great way to put your ham radio skills to use. You’ll learn which repeaters work best for your location, communications protocol, being part of a larger group of ham operators all using the same networked repeaters, using your equipment in a portable setting, being the face of ham radio, and having fun doing it! The next marathon is the Mountains to Beach Marathon on April 13 and Burt is ready to take volunteers. Are you interested? If so, or if you’d like to know more about what is involved, contact Burt KA6BJA at bjauerbach@... or talk to him in-person at our next club meeting. What’s planned for March? Club Meeting - Friday March 14th 7pm is our next club meeting where Ed Fong WB6IGN will be joining us over Zoom to give a talk on VHF/UHF antennas. Many of you are already familiar with Ed, having read his QST articles and/or purchased his antennas. When I got back into the hobby, I attempted to build Ed’s designs but ultimately purchased his roll-up dual bander, which I carry everyday in my backpack along with a dual band HT. Also at this meeting we’re going to kick of Field Day 2025 planning. Can you believe it is only 3 months away? Picnic - Saturday March 22nd 11am - 2pm we’ll have a picnic and portable radio operations gathering at Grace Lutheran Church in the outside pavilion area. This will be potluck style like we’ve done in the past where the club will provide the fire, meat, and bottled water, and you bring the rest. Please also bring a radio, antenna and coax and get on the air! With Field Day only 3 months away, it’s time to dust off what you’re going to use. Signup sheet for food will be at the club meeting and also on Groups.io VE Session - Saturday March 22nd 8:30am there will be a VE session (license testing) at Grace Lutheran Church. If you are looking to upgrade, or get your license for the first time, drop us an email at licensing@... so we can send you information on what you need to bring on testing day. We’re one of a few local locations where you can test using real paper tests, writing your answer down on real paper answer sheets. We have modernized the way tests are submitted, so your upgrade or new license will be issued within days of your test, however for those of you that like paper testing, we are your answer. Nets - https://k6mep.org/nets/ Our nets have not changed. The 40M Wednesday net did not change as conditions improved. 2M Monday and 10M Sunday net are unchanged. We are still looking for hosts for the Monday 2M net. If you’re interested, you can sign up for a date by going to this link https://k6mep.org/host-a-monday-night-net/ Note that if you volunteer to host a Monday night net, you will receive 3 raffle tickets that can be used at a future club meeting in 2025. (elected club office

Reminder: 10M Local Net 1600 PDT 28.395 USB When: Sunday, March 2, 2025 4:00pm to 4:30pm (UTC-08:00) America/Los Angeles Organizer: David Schmidt View Event Description: 1600 PDT 28.395 Mhz USB If the frequency is busy, check 5 Khz below or above as we may have moved there Get on the air and see who you can hear! A good way for Technicians to participate on HF as they are allowed a small slice of 10M. Edit: Moved time to 4pm (0000 UTC) so we are not in the last hour of various contests through the year.

Our guest speaker for the March 14th meeting will be Dr. Ed Fong (WB6IQN). As many of you may know, he is the inventor of the DBJ-1 and DBJ-2 antenna that was featured in the February 2003 and March 2007 QST. His most recent antenna was the TBJ-1 – a triband base antenna that was published in March 2017 QST. His DBJ-1 is a highly effective dual band VHF/UHF base station antenna and the DBJ-2 is the portable roll-up version. The DBJ-2 won the QST Plaque of the Month Award. Both of these antennas are featured in the ARRL VHF Antenna Handbook and also in the ARRL Antenna Classic Handbook. There are over 40,000 of these antennas in use today. About half are used by hams and the other half by government and commercial agencies. Dr. Fong has extensive knowledge of RF design and teaches at UC-Santa Cruz. His students learn about antenna theory in a hands-on approach by building them. My first VHF-UHF antenna (I called it a DBJ-1+) was custom made so that it was capable of handling 250 watts. I ordered it in August of 2016, just after completing my three Amateur License tests at the end of July and had bought a used Yaesu FT 857D (HF and VHF-UHF but no 220Mhz) from a ham in Queens, New York. Ed questioned me about needing such a high power-handling capability as most mobile transceivers only output about 50 watts. However, I had just purchased a linear amplifier off of eBay and wanted to ensure that the new antenna could handle the load. Ed told me that the proceeds of this antenna go to his graduate students at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz – Silicon Valley. They help with the construction and also get experience in tuning a dual band antenna which is an art in itself. I was so impressed with the antenna, I ordered one for my son, Jim N6VC, who had just completed his “re-licensing” after letting his old one lapse for 25 years. Since Jim lives in San Jose, Ed said that Jim could come by and pick it up and not pay shipping fees. Also Ed gave him the PVC pipe for free. In September of 2018 I became active in emergency communications and wanted to assemble a “go-bag” with a handheld unit, extra batteries, etc. and decided to add a dual-band VHF-UHF portable antenna. I contacted Ed again and purchased a DBJ-2 kit, with a 6-ft extension and a BNC to PL259 adapter. Later that month I bought a Retevis 70-watt monoband 220 MHz mobile transceiver and needed to add that band but didn’t want to install two antennas on the roof. I contacted Ed again and bought his TBJ-1 triband antenna, as described in the March QST issue which called it a Triband Base Antenna. His students at UC Santa Cruz – Silicon Valley built the antenna, fully enclosed in the 6-ft ?- inch 200 psi PVC pipe with a SO-239 connector. I installed it on my roof on top of a 15-ft mast, inserted into a 5-ft tripod. In April of 2021 I contacted Ed once again and asked to purchase another TBJ-1 triband antenna, this time for Field Day and ACS/ARES event use. I keep it at-the-ready with a sectional fiberglass mast and tripod and most recently used it at the Ventura Marathon (February 22, 2025), shown below with me and Dana KG6WXE in our volunteer gear. In September of 2018 I became active in emergency communications and wanted to assemble a “go-bag” with a handheld unit, extra batteries, etc. and decided to add a dual-band VHF-UHF portable antenna. I contacted Ed again and purchased a DBJ-2 kit, with a 6-ft extension and a BNC to PL259 adapter. Later that month I bought a Retevis 70-watt monoband 220 MHz mobile transceiver and needed to add that band but didn’t want to install two antennas on the roof. I contacted Ed again and bought his TBJ-1 triband antenna, as described in the March QST issue which called it a Triband Base Antenna. His students at UC Santa Cruz – Silicon Valley built the antenna, fully enclosed in the 6-ft ?- inch 200 psi PVC pipe with a SO-239 connector. I installed it on my roof on top of a 15-ft mast, inserted into a 5-ft tripod. In April of 2021 I contacted Ed once again and asked to purchase another TBJ-1 triband antenna, this time for Field Day and ACS/A

Video just dropped... Yaesu FT-65R Transmitter Tests This is a Japanese Radio that is manufactured in China. Interesting what engineering disciplines bring to the table. https://youtu.be/Tam6mWs-L-c Stu

Good Morning, It seems like we are just wrapping up the Ventura Marathon and now we’re at it again. The Mountains 2 Beach Marathon is scheduled for Sunday April 13th and once again we will be providing communication services for the event. This is a call for volunteers who would like to participate. This is always a fun event and as always Race Management has guaranteed perfect weather. The route and the exact station locations are still being finalized and will be passed along as soon as I get them. At this point, I’m gathering contact information from any of you that are interested in participating. Thanks to all of you that have already signed up. If you’d like to participate (no firm commitment required at this point) please send me an email w/ your contact information including your email address and cell phone number. Even if you’ve never done this type of event before please consider signing up….and encourage others to do so as well. If you’ve never done one of these….no worries…I’ll pair you up w/ a marathon veteran. It’s a great chance to take your radio toys out in the field and have a lot of fun in the process. Thanks in advance. 73, Burt KA6BJA bjauerbach@...