2023 Meeting schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic
February 8	Steve Sergeant, KC6ZKT	Winter Field Day Highlights & The Model-T of Computers
March 8	Paul Wesling, KM6LH	Silicon Valley’s Ham Radio Roots
March 18		FIELD DAY BRAINSTORM LUNCH
April 12	Kristen McIntyre, K6WX	A Wire in the Air: What Matters Most
April 23		Field Day Antenna Clean-up & Prep at Svend’s QTH
May 10	Jim Peterson, K6EI	All Things Field Day!
May 27		Field Day Antenna Party in Sunnyvale
June 14	Jim Moss, N9JIM	ARDEN Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network
June 23-25		FIELD DAY AT MORA HILL

2022 Meeting schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 12	Tim Duffy, K3LR	Grounding/Bonding for RFI Mitigation
February 9	Bryan Klofas, KF6ZEO	“12 grams Around the World: Picoballoons and Radiosondes”
March 9	Michelle Paquette AA6MP	The theory behind compact loop antennas
April 13	Jim Peterson, K6EI	Top Band — the 160 meters band
May 11	Jim Peterson, K6EI	All Things Field Day
June 8	Stan Dye, KC7ZXE	Fun with Nano VNAs
July 13		No Meeting
August 10		No Meeting
August 13		Annual BBQ – 11am at Sunnyvale’s Baylands Park
September 14	Dean Wood, N6DE	Updates on plans for the California QSO Party
October 12	Jim Peterson, K6EI,	Update on how to detect, identify, locate, and reduce Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) around your station.
November 10	Steve Sergeamt, KC6ZKT	Winter Field Day Plans
December 17		HOLIDAY PARTY / BBQ, 11am – 1pm, Saturday, Silicon Valley Red Cross Building Patio on the east-facing side of the facility.  We can shift indoors to Room 3 if it rains. The Red Cross building is at 2731 N. First Street at Plumeria Drive (southwest corner) in San Jose.   If you haven’t been to the Red Cross in a while, “talk-in” is usually available on the Association’s repeaters. Best choice would be 2m/220.

Previous meetings can be viewed on our Meetings History Page.

You can write to the WVARA at:

West Valley Amateur Radio Association
P.O. Box 6544
San Jose, CA 95150-6544