Category: Activities

W6TRW Club Meeting June 10, 2025

Speaker Topic for this Month: “W6TRW Field Day 2025″ Mark KD7DTS & Field Day Team W6TRW will be doing something different and even more fun for Field Day this year! We will be operating from Campo Alto campground, a drive-up campground on the summit of Cerro Noroeste, elevation 8,200 feet. Distance from Los Angeles is …

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W6TRW Club Social May 12, 2025

W6TRW Club Social! Far Field Beer Company Come socialize with us! This is an informal event to simply chat with each other about our love of all things radio. Field Day is coming up so bring your questions and a healthy thirst! Note that this social is for Monday, not the usual 2nd Tuesday for …

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W6TRW Club Meeting April 8th, 2025

UPDATE: Doug K6JEY is unfortunately feeling ill and  is unable to speak this month. Instead, Mark KD7DTS and Angelina KN6QAT will speak on “Your First SOTA Activation!” Mark KD7DTS is one of the top Summits on the Air (SOTA) activators in SoCal and has a mountain of experience! Angelina KN6QAT recently achieved both her Tech …

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W6TRW Club Meeting March 11th, 2025

Speaker Topic for this Month: “High Altitude Balloon Launches” Joanne Michael, KM6BWB Joanne Michael, KM6BWB is an educator, wife, mom, space geek, and ham radio operator. While attending Advanced Space Camp in 2012, she was first introduced to the idea of high-altitude balloon launches. After a few more years of thinking about it, an opportunity …

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W6TRW Club Meeting February 11th, 2025

Speaker Topic for this Month: “Portable Antenna/ Shack Night” Bill Shanney, W6QR W6TRW welcomes one of its own, longtime members, Bill Shanney, W6QR. A ham operator since 1961, Bill has written many technical articles and talks for W6TRW and stays current with ham radio items of interest for beginners to the most advanced operators. Bill’s …

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W6TRW Club Meeting January 14th, 2025

Speaker Topic for this Month: “A Woman’s Journey in Ham Radio” Helen Mahoney, KI6LQV Helen Mahoney, KI6LQV, will present “A Woman’s Journey in Ham Radio”. Helen will talk about what inspired her to obtain her Ham Radio License in 2009, later achieved General Class and the friends both Helen and her husband, Doug K6JEY, have …

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W6TRW Club Meeting December 10th, 2024

Speaker Topic for this Month: “Micro Pixie Transceiver” Adam Kimmerly, K6ARK Adam describes his Micro Pixie HF transceiver a surface-mount downsized version of the CW Pixie transceiver. He takes this small device to a never-before activated SOTA summit to see what it can really do. Is 2.7 g of radio and 850 mW of output …

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W6TRW 56th Annual Awards Banquet – Nov 9, 2024

W6TRW 56th Annual Awards Banquet 2024! “The James Webb Space Telescope” Presented by: Dr. Jon Arenberg Welcome back to our Annual Awards Banquet! This talk will cover the Webb telescopes origins, operating principles and development. We will also discuss some of the exciting early science results from this revolutionary observatory. Jon Arenberg is the Chief …

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W6TRW Club Meeting October 8th, 2024

Speaker Topic for this Month: “HRCC – Ham Radio Crash Course” Josh Nass, KI6NAZ HRCC, or Ham Radio Crash Course, originated from Josh Nass’s videos on YouTube but has evolved into a community of hams who are constantly learning, teaching and operating ham radio. The heart of this community is the team that keeps the …

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W6TRW Club Meeting September 10th, 2024

Speaker Topic for this Month: “Extreme but Practical Antennas for Portable Ops” Adam Kimmerly, K6ARK One of Adam’s favorite aspects of the amateur radio hobby is antenna design and construction, and over the years, he has come up with several antennas that fall into the category of “extreme” or possibly even “ridiculous” but are also …

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