Jun 03
Speaker Topic for this Month: “W6TRW Field Day 2024 – Be Radio Active” Greg Shreve KE6YEX, Dylon N6MX, Mark KD7DTS We’re planning for Field Day 2024. We’ll be at Friendship Park again this year. 2024 ARRL Field Day’s “Be Radio Active” encourages radio amateurs to take advantage of the peak of Solar Cycle 25, which …
Apr 01
Speaker Topic for this Month: “Activating Parks and Summits on 10W (or less!)” Mark Knight, KD7DTS Originally licensed in the late 1990s, I initially got hooked on ham radio as a means of reliable outdoor communications during boy scout expeditions. After a few active years on the air, the sun cycle faded, 10m went dead, …
Mar 25
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,’ …
Nov 12
W6TRW General Meeting Dec. 12, 2017, Tuesday Roundtable Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd, Torrance Guest Speaker: Bill Shanney, W6QR “QRP – Low Power Operation” QRP — “Shall I decrease power?” “Decrease power.” QRP has come to mean 5 W or less output for CW, or 10 W PEP output or less for SSB. Most amateur …
