San Francisco Radio Club

Holiday Party 2019 - December 15th - Mark your calendars

11/22/2019

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11/20/2019

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November General Meeting - Baker Dxpedition & Pizza Social!

11/6/2019

Join us on Friday November 15th for our General Meeting at the VA Hospital Building 7 Auditorium.

Our invited guest, John Miller K6MM, will takes us through his journey to Baker Island, the logistics and setup that lead to a successful operation. KH1/KH7Z - Baker Island logged just under 70,000 QSOs, including 18,000 (26%) unique calls and successfully deployed the new DXpedition version of FT8 that generated over 6,000 unique calls in their log. I can't wait!

Also note that our November meeting is a Pizza & Social event! We will have drinks and pizza available to celebrate the year and socialize. Please feel free to bring desert ;)

At 8pm that night our election results will be announced. Note to eligible voters: you should have a unique link to vote in your email inbox. Please vote now.

Finally we will also allow time to help everyone program their radios, DMR or not, and answer any questions around our hobby.

This one is not to be missed!

General Meeting - 10/18 - Working Satellites

10/17/2019

Join us tomorrow, Friday October 18th, for our General meeting at the VA Hospital Building 7 Auditorium. The meeting starts at 7pm. The plan is to talk about working amateur satellites with your HT, a topic requested several times in our surveys and radio NETs. Also don't forget to bring your radios and get help with programming. Come with your questions and hopefully we will have answers for you but more importantly join us for a night of social fun.

Starter DMR Codeplugs for W6PW posted

10/17/2019

To help our friends get on the air quickly we have pre-built a set of codeplugs with the W6PW repeater channels for the following radios so far: Motorola XPR7550(e), XPR6550, XPR5550(e), SL7550(e), Anytone 878UV, Connect Systems CS580 and CS750, Alinco DJ-MD5.

If you have a radio that is not in the list above and you need help let us know. If you have a radio not in the list but able to program it please send us a starter codeplug to post here and help other hams getting on the air faster.

Get Starter Codeplugs

New Ham? Need Help Programming your Radio?

10/16/2019

Here are the 7 steps to success!!!

1. Program our Repeater into one of your channels, info
2. Join our Slack channel and ask for help, join here
3. Join our mailing list, info
4. Get on the air & introduce yourself on our Sutro VHF repeater, info
5. Check in/Listen to our Monday 8pm NET, info
6. Attend our General Meetings, info
7. Attend one of the Critical Mass meetings, info
8. Consider becoming a member, info
9. Don't be shy, the community is here to help!
10. Give us your feedback, here!

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September General Meeting - 9/20

9/17/2019

We are super excited to announce that Bruce Hunter, KG6OJI, will be joining us this Friday to talk about the Voice of America's Greenville Transmission and Training Center during the last years of the Cold War. This is going to be a presentation using a 35mm film projector, definitely the one not to miss!

Prior to joining Voice of America, Bruce spent twenty-three years working for KSFO, when it was owned by Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters. During World-War-Two the station's previous owners ran studios and high-frequency transmitters for the Office of War Operations, via KWID and KWIX, as part of a service that eventually became Voice of America. Several co-workers and friends of Bruce worked on this wartime service. So later when VOA invited Bruce to join the staff at Greenville, he knew who they were!

Bruce's amateur radio interests are largely focused on millimeter-wave microwave technology.

Useful VOA Links

Join our SFRC Slack Community!

8/29/2019

Today we are pleased to announce that the San Francisco Radio Club will be opening Slack to our members and friends. We have been using Slack for over 3 years to run our board meetings and we feel that the time is now to use this tool to enable better collaboration between us and our club friends. So JOIN our Slack channel today!!!

2019 2M FM QSO Party on 8/24/2019

8/9/2019

This year's 2M QSO Party is coming up. This year, the event will be on 8/24/2019 from 10AM to 2PM. Follow the button below for details.

2019 2M FM QSO Party

July General Meeting - Friday 19th at 7pm.

7/18/2019

This is a friendly reminder to let you know that tomorrow, Friday, July 19th, we will be hosting our General Meeting at the VA Hospital, building 7 Auditorium. Be there at 7pm! We have a ton of good stuff to cover and of course socialize! So come early, bring your radios and share your stories.

July Presentation
This Friday, our own, John Gates, KB6KM will be presenting on best communication practices when using repeater systems. Bring your HT, and let's make this an interactive meeting! Have all your questions answered!

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