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San Francisco Radio Club

The San Francisco Radio Club
​1916 - 2020

[Celeb​rating 104 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community]

SFRC Parks-Polyfecta! March 20th

2/26/2021

 
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This is an opportunity for club members to get out in the open air and operate in field conditions away from their QTH setups. Pack your gear and pack your lunch, it’s radio communications time!

The tentative date is set for Saturday March 20th and the plan is for small groups to operate simultaneously on multiple bands in multiple modes from multiple San Francisco Parks.

Groups of 2-4 members each would meet at the preselected parks and operate in HF, VHF and UHF from 1000-1400 PDT (1700 – 2100 UTC DST) to make as many contacts as possible on SSB, CW, and FM – maybe even Packet.

Volunteer Team Leads would be selected in each group to coordinate activity at the various sites. Along with city parks, selection could also include any of the POTA registered parks in San Francisco or the adjoining counties. POTA operations, however, would be responsible for reporting their own activity to POTA. Of course, at all sites we would be abiding by whatever COVID restrictions are in place at the time of the event. The Parks-Polyfecta will not be awarding points and is designed as a fun field event for radio communications.

Please Direct Message (DM) @Jeff Curry KK6JJZ through Slack to let us know what park you would like to operate from during the Parks-Polyfecta. A list will be compiled to match up operators with similar selections and then posted to Slack to assemble properly sized teams. If you choose a large park like Golden Gate Park you should designate the specific area of the park (e.g., Spreckels Lake, Big Rec Field) you wish to use. More details will be posted on a #2021-parks-polyfecta channel as preparations expand.

SILENT KEY ~ Jim Sanders KW6L ~

1/18/2021

 
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​It is with great sorrow that we inform you of the passing of KW6L Jim Sanders, our fellow operator and friend. Jim has lost his battle with cancer and is now a Silent Key. KW6L was a long time member of SFARC, a former member of the Board, and for many years acted as the net control for the HF QSO on Saturday mornings. He was a superb operator and his death is a major loss to the local amateur radio community. (playback below)

​We now say, 73.
​Rest in Peace and Power.
Silent Key Jim Sanders KW6L

Friday 1/15 at 7pm - General Meeting is ON - Virtually!

1/15/2021

 
Join us Friday, January 15th, at 7pm for our first General Membership meeting of the new year! We are planning to give you an update on the club's business, discuss plans and priorities for the next year, and have some quick presentations on various topics of interest from attendees.

Meeting Details
Google Meet Meeting ID: meet.google.com/ury-xseb-gxa
Google Meet Phone Number:  ‪+1 502-518-3543‬
Google Meet Phone PIN: ‪500 091 988#‬
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Happy New Year! Happy 2021!

12/31/2020

 
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The San Francisco Radio Club wishes you a wonderful, healthy and prosperous New Year! May 2021 be the year that normality kicks back in, a year we remember for very different reasons than 2020! 

2020 has been challenging in so many different ways for each one of us. Despite, 2020 was the year that our hobby brought us much, much closer together. We got creative, we built more projects, we got out and run events, we met virtually in unprecedented numbers, we looked after each other via our Welfare NETS. We saw sanity in isolation. 


As we close this year, Robert AD6I, Steve N0XOY and I (Antonis) AA6PP are stepping down from the SFRC board. It is bittersweet for all of us. We feel incredibly proud of what we (including you) and the rest of the board achieved over the past several years. The club is in top condition; financially, techologicaly, in terms of membership, but most importantly in terms of community engagement, participation! We are over the moon and we could not do this without your help. We are stepping down, but not going away. We remain club members (some of us even life members) and we are here to help and support the new board to take the club even further! 

Finally, we want to welcome Jeff KK6JJZ and Jeffrey KI6SGV to our board and congratulate Greg W2GMD for taking the lead for 2021. James KM6ASJ, Bruce KI6BSL, Nick NF1P and Kiley  KD8DRX will ensure continuity, you are in super capable hands! 

Truly a pleasure working with you all, wishes for the best ever new year! 

Antonis AA6PP 
President (for a few more hours), San Francisco Radio Club

Friday 11/20 at 7pm - General Meeting is ON - Virtually!

11/16/2020

 
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Join us Friday, November 20th, at 7pm for our General Membership meeting! Updates on the club's business, chat about our San Francisco Radio Club Special Event W6P expedition at Angel Island, and announce the results of our 2021 Board of Directors elections. Plus, of course, socialize and help each other with any hobby-related questions and projects. See you all there!!!

WHEN:
Friday, Nov 20th at 7pm.


WHERE:
​On the Web:

meet.google.com/otj-tbcu-tej

Join by phone:
‪(US) +1 402-628-0235‬ PIN: ‪732 876 738‬#

Activating Mt Davidson: Saturday, Nov 14th, 10am PST

11/10/2020

 
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This Saturday, November 14th at 10am PST / 18:00UTC we will be activating Mt Davidson, in the heard of San Francisco. Mt Davidson is a SOTA summit with designation W6/NC-423. A small team of operators, Antonis, AA6PP, Jeff KK6JJZ, Rick K6TOR, David KN6HFV and Bryan KF6ZEO will be operating on the following frequencies: 

14.063-cw, 18.073-cw,  21.063-cw, 7243-ssb, 14328-ssb, 146.505 fm, 445.425-fm

We will be operating with the clubs callsign, W6PW

Please join us on the air and help us activate this summit. We guarantee it, its going to be a lot of fun! 

SFRC Special Event - OTA-Trifecta - Angel Island - Nov 7th - w/ W6P special callsign - What a success!!!

10/21/2020

 
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We are pleased to announce our upcoming Special Event at Angel Island on November 7th, 2020. We will be using special station callsign W6P and operate Summits on the Air (SOTA), US Islands on the Air (US IOTA) and National Parks on the Air (POTA) at the same time! We will operate at low power running on batteries. We will send a QSL card to every contact we make! For more details about this event and event frequencies click below. 

Angel Island - November 7th - 19:15-22:15 UTC - W6P
SFRC OTA-Trifecta Details

October General Meeting - Friday 10/16 at 7pm

10/13/2020

 
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Join us this Friday at 7pm for our October General Membership meeting! Our club has grown so much over the past few years that we thought it would be a good idea to take a journey of the past. Our guest speaker on Friday evening is our historian, Bart Lee, K6VK. (https://www.qrz.com/db/k6vk) Bart is the only person I know that has documented so much about our club! This one is not to be missed.  After the meeting we will have an open discussion, help each other with radios and questions, share a project, a story. the floor will be yours! ​

​Can't wait to see you all Friday night at 7pm. 

Dial in details: 
Google Meet li
nk: meet.google.com/scn-sbus-omi
Join by phone
‪(US) 
+1 321-586-0581 PIN: 106 767 649#

It is election time!

10/12/2020

 
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It is the time of the year that we ask the membership to stand up and help us elect a new board for 2021. During  our September General meeting we opened the floor for nominations for officers and directors. Nominations will close during our October General meeting, at 7:30pm. At that time our electronic election will start. Eligible members will receive their ballots instantly. Our election will end at 8pm during our November General meeting where the results will be announced immediately.
Here are the current list of nominees: 
Directors:
Kent AJ6NI
Victor K6VIZ
Jeff KK6JJZ
Kiley KD8DRX
Jeffrey KI6SGV

Secretary:
Bruce KI6BSL

Treasurer:
James KM6ASJ

Vice President:
Nick NF1P

President:
Greg W2GMD
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Being part of the board of a club with such history is such a honor and pleasure. Please consider being part of the magic next year, nominate yourself or someone else! Nominees need to be club members in good standing.

If you are interested, contact Robert at ad6i@kint.org or on the club Slack.

Join our SFRC Slack Community!

10/2/2020

 
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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!!! ​
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