March 19, 2026 – Quick recap

The March meeting was held at the Canyon Crown Pub. We had about 12 members in attendance and one on zoom. We discussed the trial of the Coffee Exchange Deli meeting room for April and most agreeing and some sustaining. We will need to get a reservation for April the 16th before I post it to this webpage and send out invites. The speaker topic was “Lessons Learned from the Bouvet DXpedition”. We went around and members filled us in on the good and bad of trying to work the 3Y0K group. Most were in agreement that it was a tough one to work or even hear! The remainder of the meeting was devoted to a review of our webpage, groups.io and Facebook page. This was helpful for new members in attendance.

February 19, 2026 – Quick recap

We met at the Canyon Crown Pub. Badges were ready and all collected theirs. We reviewed the latest updates to the website, which included additions to the “About” page, “Members” page and the “DX Tools” page. Jerry, W6XI, brought up a new meeting place, The Coffee eXchange. We reviewed the location and menu. A comment on parking space was made. We decided to investigate the offer of the meeting room there and if it looked good we would plan on meeting there for one month as a trail basis while keeping our reservations at the pub. The speaker this month was, yours truly, on using VOACAP for working Bouvet, 3Y0K, which is about to occur. Much discussion on how to work this special location was had.

January 15, 2026 – Quick recap

The meeting began with old business regarding the new club badge. We voted on style #4 and Ron will give us information on how to order. New business included a talk on the new webpage regarding the new menu item “DX TOOLS”. It was brought up that we needed to pay our dues to ARCA and all agreed to that. The speaker was a video of the latest on Bouvet Island DXpedition. Here is the link:

https://archive.org/details/youtube-p-6bfQCoOv4

After, there was a discussion on how many were going to work 3Y0K and what method to be employed. Most responded that they were going to try and work them and felt that FT8 and CW would be best.

December 18, 2025 – Quick recap

The meeting started with a presentation of our new webpage. This update was a major improvement from previous site displays due to the implementation of add on features. There is now a new member form for those wanting to join the club. It was announced that Tom Fagan is working on restoring our club’s Facebook page. The speaker this month was a video entitled “The secret life of Radio” a BBC program from Tim Hunkin. It was received well! We had a gift raffle provided by AJ with two members taking home new power drivers. The night ended with one of our new members volunteering to provide club badges, so we look forward to offering a newly designed badge to members!

November 20, 2025 – Quick recap

The meeting covered a range of topics related to amateur radio, including club business matters, latest DX worked, and new Ham fests. We discussed whether to have a Christmas party for the December meeting and that was turned down. The speaker was a video “Radio and the Disappearence of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan”