• Next Club Meeting

    Tuesday,  October 21st at 7:00PM El Dorado County Sheriff's Office200 Industrial DrivePlacerville, CA 95667

  • Amateur Radio Testing

    Next Session January 10th, 2026 9:00AM American Legion Post 119 4561 Greenstone Rd. Placerville, CA 95667 Fees $14 Contact Ken, W6KWV 530-642-9523 https://hamstudy.org/sessions  Search for EDCARC IN-PERSON TEAM

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.

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Then JR presented a new gavel to the club in honor of SK Nancy Harmor KG6PNP.

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Bob, W1RH gave a quick update on the new 2m repeater, remote receiver at Big Hill. Giving better coverage in Crystal Basin area. 20250916_192854.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

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Mike, N7MSS showed off his fan dipole antenna spreaders from SOTA Beams.

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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.

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