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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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)
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
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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February 2025 Meeting
Our next club meeting will take place on February 14 at 7:30 PM at the Confluence Church Gym in Auburn, California and on Zoom at zoom.w6ek.org.
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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A BIG THANK YOU
A B1G thank you to Gilda, Cindy, and Shari from Confluence Church who spoiled us ALL rotten at this month’s meeting with this amazing spread. 2025 diet broken and it was soooooo worth it!
Watts Up This Week
SFARC Members and Friends,
Welcome to 2025. We hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday. We’re back at it for the new year and we’ve got some things coming up.
Welcome to 2025. We hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday. We’re back at it for the new year and we’ve got some things coming up.
SFARC BOARD MEETING – THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 9TH @ 6PM | ZOOM Join the SFARC board of directors to help influence the events coming in 2025.
SFARC GENERAL CLUB MEETING – THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 10TH @ 7:30PM | ZOOM AND CONFLUENCE CHURCH Come one come all to the first club meeting of 2025. The next SFARC general club meeting will be held @ Confluence Church (previously named Crossroads Church) Campus Gym: 1101 Auburn Ravine Rd, Auburn, CA 95603 at 7:30PM — ALL OUR WELCOME. Use the Dairy Road entrance for best access to the gym and parking. If you can’t make it in person, join us virtually on Zoom.
SAVE THE DATE HAMTRAK II, BACK ON TRACK – March 6-7 | More Info @ www.w6ek.org/activities/hamtrak HAMFEST 2025 – March 22nd | More Info @ www.w6ek.org/activities/hamfest
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TIME FOR SOME UPGRADES
Congratulations to all those who go their license or upgrade at last nights SFARC VE Session: Ben Brabon (Tech), Colin Ryan (Tech), Jason Ray (KO6GXN /AG), Garrett Hebert (/AG), Michael Baker (AK6KR /AE), Nikolai Chernyshev (KO6GGR /AE), John Fischer (KO6COW /AE), and Paul Walker (KO6GQV /AE).
