A few of us set up a public information booth at the 2025 Cops Props and Roders community event in Cameron Park. The weather was excellent, and we had lots of interested visitors. Between talking to people about the Ham Radio hobby and emergency communications we were able to look at some nice cars and airplanes.
The September meeting started off with Mike, N7MSS showing off the ARES trailer remodel progress. After our president got the meeting going, JR, K6LBP presented our latest 220 Use-It-Or-Lose-It net winner, Carly KO6GQQ with her prize.
Then JR presented a new gavel to the club in honor of SK Nancy Harmor KG6PNP.
Bob, W1RH gave a quick update on the new 2m repeater, remote receiver at Big Hill. Giving better coverage in Crystal Basin area. 
John Litz, NZ6Q, our Pacific Division Director gave us an update on the ARRL and asked us to support the letter writing campaign for the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act.
Mike, N7MSS showed off his fan dipole antenna spreaders from SOTA Beams.
Our main speaker was Steve, K6SLP. He showed off some of the devices that his company builds to assist law enforcement. He walked us through the design process and all the hurdles his company needed to clear to get the devices ready for production.
We made our annual trip up to the Big Hill fire lookout station in the El Dorado National Forest. We made SOTA, POTA and VHF+ Contest contacts. Nine of our members participated in the event. We worked frequencies from 14MHz to 10GHz. The weather was excellent, and the band conditions were good too. Before going up to the hill we met for breakfast at the Ice House Resort.
At the August meeting Gary, W6GLB was the 220 Use-It-Or-Lose-It Net winner. JR, K6LBP presented Gary with new 220 Net swag.
A good turnout for the meeting and a new visitor.
The main presentation was given by Jordan, W6CQ. He shared about a few kits he has built and modifications to an HT.
