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The El Dorado County ARC helped the Marshal Gold Discovery State Park celebrate the 171th anniversary of the discovery of gold in California. The club operated in the ARES trailer in the parking lot next to Sutter’s Saw Mill both Saturday and Sunday. We got the station on the air shortly after 9:00am on Saturday and worked pileups almost the entire weekend. We worked mostly on 40m and 20m phone and the band conditions weren’t too bad. We logged 657 contacts for the event and approximately 173 Winter Field Day contacts. Saturday was the actual anniversary of the gold discovery and the park had many visitors. Many of the visitors stopped by to see our operation and were interested in Ham Radio. Sunday was little quieter, but we still had several visitors stop by. The weather was perfect the entire weekend.
Roger and Dave W6TQ working the pileup.
Jordan, WC6J and Roger woking the stations
A couple of picutres of our 70 foot mast and rotatable dipole.
There was a good turnout for the first meeting of the year. Jay, KE6GLA discussed final plans for the Coloma Special Event Station this weekend. Dave, K6TQ gave a report of our Field Day results. Not too bad 3rd out of 10 in class 8A.
Jordan, WC6J showed off his latest project the QRP-Labs QCX CW Transceiver kit. The kit has built-in diagnostic functions and a great build manual.
Our guest speaker for the evening was Ian, W6TCP. Ian displayed how he used WSPR to test different antennas and how he compared the results.
On Sunday, December 9th 35 club members were able to gather at the 50 Grand Club in Pollock Pines for a meal and holiday cheer. The club has not held the holiday dinner at the 50 Grand in over 15 years so it was a walk down memory lane for a few of us long time members. The 50 Grand had the banquet room all decorated and ready for us to celebrate. The food was good and the dessert was delicious. Nancy kicked off the raffle and door prize giveaway at the end of the meal. One corner of the room was especially lucky wining a good portion of the prizes. We hoped everyone enjoyed the event and will have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Prizes waiting to be won.
Lots of holiday conversations while waiting on the meal.
Yummy!
At the November meeting we held our annual club officer elections and had a couple of quick presentations.
Jordan, WC6J gave a quick talk about one of his recent SOTA adventures to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada.
Phil, KK6YYD showed off his new satellite tracking and communications device that keeps his family up to date of his location during SOTA trips and lets him spot his working frequencies during the SOTA activation.
The club election was completed, and the 2019 club officers and board are:
President Jay Harmor KE6GLA
Vice President Jordan Heichman WC6J
Secretary Aaron Tassin W6CK
Treasurer Nancy Harmor KG6PNP
Board Member Dave Sanders K6TQ
Board Member Don McCallum AF6ND
Board Member Bob LeClerc W6RC
Board Member Michael Pico K6MLE
Board Member Sue Mosbacher KM6ILP
Board Member Phil Mosbacher KK6YYD
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