We had another successful Field Day at the Windmiller Farms in Apple Hill. In addition to Field Day, we also held our postponed holiday dinner on the Friday evening before Field Day. The dinner had 51 participants and was catered by Back 40 Texas Bar-B-Q. Everyone had enjoyed the meal and conversation and several lucky participations walked away with a door or raffle prize.
Field Day started with several technical difficulties to overcome. The band conditions were very poor the entire weekend and we had trouble keeping a consistent QSO rate. Most of our operators made a few contacts. We had official visits from our Section Manager Carol KP4MD and Frank KG6GWY the Communications Director for El Dorado County Sherrif.
At our May 2022 Meeting Bob, W1RH presented the history of Amateur Radio Call Sign issuing. Steve, W1SRD played some audio of phone pileups he observed from his TX5N Raivavae, Austral Islands operation. The radio club also elected its officers for the next year.
| President | Jay Harmor | KE6GLA |
| Vice President | JR Harmon | K6LBP |
| Secretary | Susan Keale | KM6NFP |
| Treasurer | Nancy Harmor | KG6PNP |
| Director | Tony Miller | W6QA |
| Director | Bob Hess | W1RH |
| Director | Alan Thompson | W6WN |
| Director | Don Brooks | KG6YST |
| Director | Jordan Heichman | WC6J |
| Director | Doris Wong | K0BEE |
| Repeater Trustee | Bob Hess | W1RH |
| Director | Jeremy Dean | W6TKD |
We had a good turnout in person and on Zoom for the April 2022 Meeting. We discussed up-coming elections for the radio club. We also took a poll of those interested in having our holiday dinner on Friday June 24th, the evening before Field Day. The poll showed good support for the proposal. We had two speakers for the evening Jordan WC6J who showed his work to restore a 1980's Fluke multimeter and Todd Crawford, who educated us on what frequencies we should me monitoring in El Dorado County. We ended the meeting with a few people being luck enough to walk away with some raffle prizes.
Recently spotted at the Loomis Ham Fest on March 20th 2022 was Mike, N7MSS, JR KN6LBP and Jay KE6GLA. You will have to ask them if they were able to find any treasures before the rain started.
