Category: Activities

Volunteers Wanted for Baker to Vegas in March

This is the 35th Annual Baker to Vegas 2019 We need help! Baker to Vegas is a 120-mile relay run, there are 20 stages. This is held every year in March. Runners are police officers from around the country and from other countries. Currently, there are 270 teams that participate in this event. There are over 6000 runners …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday December 11, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting December 11, 2018 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Chris Wachs, WA2KDL, will present What is FT-8 Digital Mode? Chris will demonstrate and share his Field Day experience with FT-8 Digital Mode FT8 stands for “Franke-Taylor design, 8-FSK modulation” and was created by Joe Taylor, K1JT and …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday October 9, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting October 9, 2018 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Veteran Deane Bouvier, N5DQ, will present USAF MARS The Military Auxiliary Radio System, a US DOD sponsored civilian program consisting of primarily licensed ham radio operators interested in assisting the military with communications on a local, national, and …

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W6TRW 52nd Annual Awards Banquet 2018

W6TRW 52nd Annual Awards Banquet 2018 Special Guests from Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Association David Ziskin, AG6E & Doug Dowds, W6HB, President of BIARA Saturday, Nov. 10th, 2018 6:00 – 10:00 pm Bluewater Grill, 665 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach Captain’s Cabin, 1st Floor, back area Your RSVP needs to be received by Oct. 26th …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday September 11, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting September 11, 2018 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Understanding the linked multi-repeater systems of Southern California Guest Speaker: Diana Feinberg, AI6DF Diana Feinberg, AI6DF – Key Note Speaker at 2017 W6TRW Banquet In about an hour we’ll compare and contrast such linked systems as:  PAPA; DARN; Cactus …

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Tour USAF Space & Missile Systems Center

Tour of USAF Space & Missile Systems Center (SMC) NOTICE: REGISTRATION FOR THIS TOUR ENDED AS OF 8/31/2018 Date: Friday, Sept. 21st, 2018 Car Pool at Space Park, in front of Building S parking Lot Time: 10:30 am  (**NOTE: Time has changed from 9:00 am to 10:30 am**) Limit:       1 guest per Club Member  (Total Group: …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday July 10, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting July 10, 2018 Tuesday @ 5:30pm Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Elmer to many hams, Mike Aust, WB6DJI, Presents: “Home-brew: HF SDR Rig in Go-Box HF Bands for Field Day 2018” “This project HF Field Day 2018 radio seemed like it was putting 10 pounds of sand into a 5 pound sack …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday June 12, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting June 12, 2018 Tuesday @ 5:30pm Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Field Day Co-Chairs, Chris Wachs WA2KDL & Greg Shreve KE6YEX: “ARRL’s Field Day Prep Meeting” Event Scheduled: Weekend of 23-24 June 2018 Begins at 1800 UTC Saturday ending at 2100 UTC Sunday Field Day QTH:  Friendship Park, San Pedro …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday May 8, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting May 8, 2018 Tuesday @ 5:30pm Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker from Silicon Valley:  Edison Fong, WB6IQN “A Tri-Band Antenna for 2 meters, 220 MHz, & 70 cm Antenna Without Radials” WB6IQN will present his new patent on a Tri Band base antenna (TBJ-1), featured in QST March 2017. …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday April 10, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting April 10, 2018 Tuesday @ 5:30pm Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker:  Jeff Reed, KK6TXO “Jeff Reed shares his SOTA experience” Summits on the Air (SOTA) is an ongoing ham radio contest, that encourages portable QRP operations in the mountain terrain. Each summit earns the ‘activators’ and the ‘chasers,’ …

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