Category: Club News

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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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday March 13, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting March 13, 2018 Tuesday Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker:  Duane Park, N6DSP “Baker To Vegas Volunteer Briefing” The largest police foot pursuit in the world, the Baker to Vegas run is where police organizations form relay teams to run the 120 mile course, in 20 stages from Baker, CA …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday February 13, 2018

W6TRW General Meeting February 13, 2018 Tuesday Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker:  Joanne Michael, KM6BWB “High-Altitude Weather Balloon Launch” It began with ham radio…. In 2016, Mrs. Michael decided she wanted to launch a high altitude weather balloon with her students. A science mentor of hers told her she had to …

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W6TRW Club Meeting – Tuesday, January 9 2018

W6TRW General Meeting Jan 9, 2018 Tuesday Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance  Guest Speaker:  Allen Wolff, KC7O “3D Printing” Fresh from Hamcon’s Tech Talk 2017, Allen Wolff, KC7O is here to explain the Future. 3D printing or additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. Available and …

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W6TRW 51st Annual Awards Banquet – Nov 11, 2017

NOTE: The Banquet takes the place of the monthly Club Meeting. There will be no regular Club Meeting at Round Table Pizza in November! Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 5:30 – 10:00 pm Bluewater Grill, 665 N. Harbor Drive, Redondo Beach Join your friends for this year’s W6TRW Amateur Radio Club Annual Awards Banquet featuring guest …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday, May 9, 2017

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 5:30 pm Raspberry Pi & I.O.T. – Internet of Things Club members N6ENT Lloyd Matthews & AI6BJ Mike Bao will share with us their favorite DIY projects. Lloyd Matthews’ presentation and sample code is here.

Wednesday Noon W6TRW Radio Nets

For many years, we have held a weekly Wednesday noon radio net on our 145.320 MHz and 447.000 MHz repeaters, for W6TRW Emergency Communications Team members to check in.  We are now opening this net to all W6TRW members, to get more club participation, and  generally increase the number of members who are aware of …

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W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday January 10, 2017

W6TRW General Meeting – Tuesday January 10, 2017 Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance Tuesday, Jan. 10th 2017 at 5:30 pm Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department & County Communications With 38 years of law enforcement experience with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), Division Chief of Special Operations Division, Scott Edson, W6EDS (“my initials backward are EDS.”) is …

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