Next VE Exam Date – March 3, 2025

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: 03/03/2025 @ 7 PM

Need more information before signing up? CLICK HERE

FEBRUARY VE RESULTS

A BIG congratulations to the 4 newest Technician operators who passed their test on Monday night; Steve Carter, Roger Konecny, Jeff Rice, and Matthew Schmit. Marty Main KO6GXX /AG also joined us and got his upgrade to General! Congratulations to you all from the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club.

Watts Up This Week

Happy first week of February members and friends! We have a few noteworthy mentions this week.
HAMFEST IS COMING!! WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HAMFEST If you’re new to SFARC, or a new ham, this might be your first ham swap. Or maybe you’re an “old timer”; the SFARC Loomis Hamfest is coming up on March 22nd. Planning is underway and we’re looking for volunteers. EVEN IF you think we already know you’re volunteering, please take a quick minute and visit www.w6ek.org/activities/hamfest/volunteering to get on the list. In addition, we need EVERYONES help getting the word out. If you attend local nets, or even a Northern CA HF swap net, consider making a QST. We’ve crafted a short and simple QST @ www.w6ek.org/activities/hamfest/qstscript … And last, but certainly not least, we have another PLANNING MEETING THIS THURSDAY @ 6PM in the club’s Zoom room. This is the biggest club fundraiser of the year so don’t be shy, come join us and help anyway you can.

RIVER CITY ARCS SPECIAL PRESENTATION – THIS TUESDAY, 01/04/2025 ARRL Pacific Division Director Tony Marcin, W7XM, will speak on ARRL Policy Matters & Direction in Amateur Radio at the Tuesday, February 7, 7:00 pm PT in-person meeting of the River City ARCS. This will include an update on the January ARRL Board of Directors meeting. Members and visitors are welcome. Zoom log on is also available upon request to contact@n6na.org mailto:contact@n6na.org.
VE TESTING TONIGHT IN AUBURN | 7PM A last minute reminder for anyone wanting to get their first license or upgrade. The SFARC VE team will be hosting a session tonight @ 7PM in Auburn at the Confluence Church. If you’d like more information, or to sign up, head to www.w6ek.org/activities/testing NOW. 🙂
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Looking Forward February 2025

It’s hard to believe we’ve already made it a month into the new year! The shortest month brings with it a few events of note, starting off with our club VE session at 7 PM on the 3rd. We’re always looking for volunteers to help with mentorship of test candidates both before and after their exams, so come on by and give a little back to the ham radio community. Our meeting will take place at 7:30 PM on the 14th, and the monthly breakfast at 7:30 AM on the 22nd. Keep an eye out for information on our website about the radio direction finding exercise right after breakfast.

I’m really looking forward to several major activities coming up, especially Hamtrak II. A big thank-you to Gerry (WA6E) for organizing the event once again, and I hope to meet up with you all for a memorable trip.

At last but not least, our annual hamfest in March is always a huge event, and this year’s will be no different. Long before the sun comes up, I’ll be out helping set up and enjoying great chats with hams all around the area (and perhaps beyond).

73, and I hope to see you at our many club activities in the near future!

Jim Zheng
W6JCZ

Watts Up This Week

We’ve got some stuff lined up this week as well as some upcoming events to prepare for.
EXTRA CLASS UPDATE The SFARC Extra class started last night, however, there were some that could not enroll on the website due to a software bug. If you are one of those people, the issue has been corrected and we’ve added a “Course Selector”. Its a much easier way to sort through all the options. While this is available immediately for the Extra class, the upcoming Tech and General courses will be added soon. Link: www.w6ek.org/aboutsfarc/coursesandtraining
HAMFEST IS HERE – FIRST PLANNING MEETING THURSDAY, JANUARY 30TH @ 6PM Join the Hamfest 2025 planning team tomorrow night on Zoom as we put in motion the upcoming plans for the Annual Loomis Hamfest. SAVE THE DATE: March 22nd, 2025 Link: www.w6ek.org/activities/hamfest
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: ARRL POLICY MATTERS & DIRECTION, FEBRUARY 4TH, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM ARRL Pacific Division Director Tony Marcin, W7XM, will speak on ARRL Policy Matters & Direction in Amateur Radio at the Tuesday, February 7, 7:00 pm PT in-person meeting of the River City ARCS. This will include an update on the January ARRL Board of Directors meeting. Members and visitors are welcome. Zoom log on is also available upon request to contact@n6na.org mailto:contact@n6na.org.
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ARRL Policy Matters & Direction in Amateur Radio with Pacific Division Director Tony Marcin (W7XM)

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SPECIAL PRESENTATION: ARRL Pacific Division Director Tony Marcin (W7XM) will speak on ARRL Policy Matters & Direction in Amateur Radio at the Tuesday, February 4th, 7:00 pm PT in-person meeting of the River City ARCS.

This will include an update on the January ARRL Board of Directors meeting. Members and visitors are welcome. Zoom information is available upon request to contact@n6na.org.

WHERE: Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave. Carmichael, CA 95608 | MAP LINK

Watts Up This Week

This Saturday (01/25) we’ve got our club breakfast at Mel’s Diner on highway 49 in Auburn. The fun starts at 0730 followed by this month’s Fox Hunt.
A big thanks to Frank KG9M for stepping up to be the W6EK Fox Tender this month.
Fox Hunt details: – Pre-meeting starts at 9:00 AM, Hunt starts at 9:30 AM. – Hunt runs from 9:30 AM to 12:00 Noon. – Fox frequency is 146.565 mHz – Fox Tender will be monitoring 146.430 mHz. – Hunt will be in the greater Auburn area bounded b y Bell Road, Indian Hill Road, Mt. Vernon Road and the Auburn Ravine confluence.
More details can be found @ www.w6ek.org Happy Hunting. 🙂
And Looking forward…
HAMTRAK II, BACK ON TRACK IS COMING UP! March 6-7, 2025 All the details can be found @ www.w6ek.org

9TH ANNUAL LOOMIS HAMFEST, SAVE THE DATE! If you’ve never been to our Hamfest, you haven’t actually been to a Hamfest! 🙂 Tons of prizes, Elmer tours, and TONS of sellers. More to come!!!
All the details can be found @ hamfest.w6ek.org – Want to be involved? Qur first planning meeting is 01/30/2025 @ 6 PM in the SFARC Zoom room.
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Watts Up This Week

A big thank you to Gilda, Cindy, and Shari from Confluence Church who spoiled us ALL rotten at this month’s meeting with an amazing spread of goodies. We’ve got a few other things going on this week.

* ELMER NET – THIS WEDNESDAY @ 7:30PM ON THE W6EK REPEATER * FRIDAY NIGHT TRIVIA – THIS FRIDAY @ 7:30PM ON THE W6EK REPEATER
And a few events coming down the road to save the date: HAMTRAK II, BACK ON TRACK | MARCH 6-7TH LOOMIS HAMFEST | MARCH 22ND
Thats all for now. 🙂 _ ___ _ ___ _ ___
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