The first Fox Hunt will take place on Saturday, 9/20, at a special location: Stampede Reservoir, located off Interstate 80, just east of Truckee, CA.  This Fox Hunt is scheduled to coordinate with the SFARC annual campout. The Fox Hunt will start with a pre-meeting at the camp host’s (base camp site, Site 228) location, usually after morning breakfast, no earlier than approximately 10 AM. If you are not planning to camp, then consider coming up for breakfast (don’t forget to RSVP), stay for the day, join the Fox Hunt later in the morning, enjoy all the afternoon fun events, and then savor the Saturday night dinner (again, please don’t forget to RSVP).  Stampede is actually a reasonable drive from most Sacramento areas…less than two hours with normal traffic.

The second Fox Hunt opportunity will be on the last Saturday of the month, September 27. Thank you Frank (KG9M) for volunteering to be the Fox Tender for this Fox Hunt. Regular pre-meeting time of 9 AM directly following the monthly club breakfast in the parking lot of Wings, following the SFARC monthly breakfast.

More information can be found HERE.

Looking for a local location to take your amateur radio license or upgrade exam? Sierra Foothills VE Team provides in-person exam sessions on the 1st Monday evening of the month.

Scholarships are available for students currently enrolled in Elementary, Middle, High School, or Undergraduate College programs and are 21 years of age or younger as of the date of the exam. Upon passing an exam, the student will be eligible for an instant $14 refund for the cost of the exam and also awarded the $35 FCC licensing fee.

NEXT IN-PERSON DATE: 10/6/2025 @ 7 PM

Need more information before signing up? CLICK HERE

Looking for a local location to take your amateur radio license or upgrade exam? Sierra Foothills VE Team provides in-person exam sessions on the 1st Monday evening of the month.

Scholarships are available for students currently enrolled in Elementary, Middle, High School, or Undergraduate College programs and are 21 years of age or younger as of the date of the exam. Upon passing an exam, the student will be eligible for an instant $14 refund for the cost of the exam and also awarded the $35 FCC licensing fee.

NEXT IN-PERSON DATE: 9/8/2025 @ 7 PM

Need more information before signing up? CLICK HERE

Dr. Ed Fong (WB6IQN) is giving a presentation on how you can build a tri-band 144/220/430 MHz antenna for your VHF and UHF operations.

Come join us on Zoom at 7:30 PM on July 30th with plenty of questions and get inspired!

Let’s give it up to the 9 people who got a new ham license at Monday’s SFARC VE session. Congratulations to Lane Albright, Thomas Alling, Isaac Chan, Ethan Crow, Michael Kryss, Jackson Rhinehart, Taylor Thompson, and Jonathan Wenk; all getting their Technician license. And a double congrats to Quinten Williams, who took his tech and general back to back and passed them both with flying colors. Congratulations new hams from SFARC.

Looking for a local location to take your amateur radio license or upgrade exam? Sierra Foothills VE Team provides in-person exam sessions on the 1st Monday evening of the month.

Scholarships are available for new hams, who are under 21 years old and enrolled in an education program. The scholarship reimburses the cost of your exam and provides a study guide for the next license level.

NEXT IN-PERSON DATE: 8/4/2025 @ 7 PM

Need more information before signing up? CLICK HERE

A big congratulations to the newly awarded SFARC lifetime members. From left, Dennis (WU6X), Scott (KK7AIR). Gerry (WA6E), Jeff (AK6OK) not pictured, Brian (AI6US), and Orion (AI6JB).Thank you for your dedication to the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club.

On the fifth Wednesday night in April (4/30/2025 @ 7:30 PM), Craig (KM6LYW) will give the club an update on the DigiPi, an operating system for the Raspberry Pi that makes amateur radio digital modes easily accessible through a web browser. Rather than carry a separate computer to operate modes such as FT8, RTTY, APRS, and WinLink, DigiPi allows you to do all that and more through your phone.

Craig will give a brief introduction to the platform and demonstrate the many useful features it provides to your digital ham radio operations. He will also go into further details like what it takes to build your own device and how it can be interfaced to various models of amateur transceiver equipment.

River City ARC has invited SFARC to their encore series of mentoring sessions on HF operation.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!!

The sessions are scheduled for:

• May 13 | Challenges and strategies to set up your successful HF station | 7-9 pm
• May 20 | HF Contesting and DXing | 7-9 pm
• To be added | Hands-on HF operation | 7-9 pm

Location: Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave, Carmichael, CA 95608