Category: Club News

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday September 10, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting September 10, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Brian Johnson, AB6UI: “Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)” ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) lets students worldwide experience the excitement of talking directly with crew members of the International Space Station, inspiring them …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday July 9, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting July 9, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Bob Lanahan, KK6WYW: “Winlink Tutorial and Demo” Winlink is…a global email system via radio. …a worldwide radio email service that uses radio pathways where the internet is not present, and is capable of operating completely without the internet–automatically–using …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday June 11, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting June 11, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Field Day Co-Chairs, Chris Wachs WA2KDL & Greg Shreve KE6YEX: “ARRL’s Field Day Prep Meeting” Field Day QTH: Friendship Park 1805 W 9th St, San Pedro, CA 90732 Event Schedule: Club Set-Up Friday 21 June 2019 Weekend of …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday May 14, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting May 14, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Bill Moulton, WA6PMW, will present W6TRW Repeaters W6TRW Technical Chairperson, WA6PMW, shares his perspectives and latest information about the Club’s Repeaters. Gain insight from a Subject Matter Expert on how to maintain and service your repeater and communications …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday April 9, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting April 9, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  David Ziskin, AG6E, will present Tour of Duty: Antarctica For the Antarctica research season of 2005/2006, I was aboard the USNS Paul Buck (which has since been decommisioned) as the Radio-Electronics Officer (REO) for the trip.  We made the …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday March 12, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting March 12, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Ray Enriquez, KD6IGI, will present Baker to Vegas Challenge 2019   Ray Enriquez, KD6IGI, will brief volunteers on B2V 2019 The largest police foot pursuit in the world, the Baker to Vegas run is where police organizations form …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday February 12, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting February 12, 2019 Tuesday @ 6:00pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Bill Shanney, W6QR, will present HF Radio and Portable Operations Special CW Feature: Keys and Keyers Bill Shanney, the W6TRW Club Elmer, at his operating bench W6TRW welcomes one its own, longtime members, Bill Shanney, W6QR.  A ham …

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W6TRW Meeting – Tuesday, January 8, 2019

W6TRW General Meeting Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 6:00 pm QTH: Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Bch Blvd  Live by Skype from the Tyler Texas Amateur Radio Club (TARC, call sign K5TYR)  Mark Depaepe, N5YEY, will demo DMR – Digital Mobile Radio Meet N5YEY Mark has taught amateurs looking to obtain their Extra class license and is …

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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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Bill Tynan W3XO Silent Key

It is our sad duty to inform the passing of Bill Tynan, W3XO. William A. “Bill” Tynan, W3XO, of Kerrville, Texas, died on August 7, following a lengthy illness. A past AMSAT President and the editor of the QST column “The World Above 50 MHz” from 1975 until 1992, Tynan was 91. Click here for …

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