The Palm Springs Hamfest
is soon approaching. On January 28 plan on being there! Just $2 gets
you on the grounds and access to all there is to see and do!
This years event has enough stuff to keep you entertained most of the
day. It promises to be one of the most fun Hamfests of the season!
Make this a Club outing or bring a Buddy or rendezvous with your RAG
Chew Group!
Palm Springs rings of nostalgia (no we don't have the RAT Pack) Palm
Springs Hamfest invites you to add to the fun by coming in your RAT
ROD / Hot Rod or Classic Beauty. Special parking area to show off your
beauty. Or come in anything on wheels or on foot, hi hi! Our food
concession brings you back to by gone days of the burger joint hangout
and Soda Jerk era. Great breakfast, not so greasy Lunch and even a
healthy food menu all day long. The Desert RATS' Club XYL's are
whipping up some good ole fashion cooking to remind you of bygone
days! Have a coffee with home baked goodies to go ..or .hang out and
Rag Chew under the shaded veranda.
Over 35 top notch commercial vendors and more ... too many to mention
here so go to our Forum at
http://desertrats.17.forumer.com/to find out all the things
going on. To mention a few...See Yaesu, Alinco , HRO, RF Stuff, DX
Store, AMSAT, CQ Magazine , Bud's Engraving (everyone needs a new name
tag this year Right?) and quite a few Demos, plus Plus more.
Special Guest / Wagon Master from QUARTZFEST on Friday Gordon West
will be there all Saturday. He's written many articles for Magazines
like CQ Magazine and you probably took his Course / book to get your
license. Podcast host of Ham Twits with Leo LaPorte... Gordon's also
hosting a Celebrity ride up the Tram on Mount San Jacinto on Sunday
morning so sign up at the Hamfest entrance and get the details for a
Sunday morning outing to please your YL & XYL and give her/him a
special remembrance of Hamfest.
The Air waves are A-Buzz now and will be past January 28 the day of
the event. Talk about it on your weekly NET or on air or eyeball
meeting and help us promote this grand event! Make this a Club outing
and come on down ..... join us under the Palm Trees at Gary's place.
Talk-in is on our Repeater 146.940 - PL 107.2
We will also be having a daily NET beginning Thursday at 6PM then
Friday through Saturday at 8 AM 12 PM & 6PM so join us on air! His
will be an inframational Net about Hamfest where we will try and
answer your questions about all the goings on over the weekend.
See the Military Radio Museum of rare and unnusual radios from all the
Wars since Ham radio began ...Michael has added to his one of a kind
rare collection. Ever heard of the Canteen Transmitter used in German
concentration Camps by POW's. Michael has one to show you. Want to see
a one tube transmitter you can build yourself ask him he'll give you a
how to set of instructions.
Demos all day long.... RAFFLE DRAWS ALL DAY LONG Come see guest
Announcer Chip Wallace 4 time Emmy and 3 time Golden Mike award
winner!
ALINCO IS INTRODUCING THEIR NEW HF RADIO THAT IS SELLING FOR UNDER
$550 dollars! Try it out right there.
The Desert RATS 2nd Hand Store will have dozens of bargains and will
sell your used gear for only a 10% commission... sell your used
quality gear and buy some more! bring it in early to get best chance
of selling your stuff during 9AM to 4PM
Our SWAP MEET is no charge for Vendor Spots --- Just show up for the
SETUP TIME 7 AM Saturday JAN 28
It will open to the Public and Hams 9AM-4PM
So come and join in a good old Fashioned Hamfest in warm Palm Springs.
Rendezvous with your on air Buddies. Last year over 700 Happy Hams had
a blast! The first year if you came then we only had about 250
register.
Check out our Web site for more details and a map to find your way
there
http://desertrats.am see PS Hamfest page.
2 METER Talkin FREQUENCY 146.940 -PL 107.20
SPECIAL Desert RATS HAMFEST NET Thursday 6PM Friday and Saturday at
8AM 12PM 6PM on same freq.
see you at 4193 Matthew Drive in Palm Springs ..follow the signs and
antennas to Gary's Place by the edge of South Palm Springs.
WE expect over 800 to join Us in sunny warm PALM SPRINGS hope to SEE
YOU THERE again!
BECOME A MEMBER ...JOIN THE DESERT RATS CLUB ! one of the most fun
Clubs in ARRL
Memberships available online at our Web Site or at the entrance of our
Event! Snowbirds especially welcome! We have members from all over
North America .
Join other groups like ARRL, ARES, RACES, CERTS, MARS, Civil Air
Patrol, San Bernardino Microwave Society, LA ATV Group. ( which has a
repeater covering from the Coast to into our valley & Western Arizona,
come and find out how you can get more involved in our hobby! Make
friends and influence people [ well maybe?] you get my drift! Lets
just have fun....... the more the merrier
Check out our online RATS Merch. Store and buy, use and wear
Ricki.D.RATS Designer Clothing and merchandise (Mugs , Pet wear,
ladies/Men's/ kids/ Baby T-shirts and hoodies are our best sellers).
Morse
Code built into the wheels of new Mars Rover!
Can you see what it spells?
The Hong Kong Electronics
Fair opened today,
October 13, and runs through October 16.
Courtesy of:
http://www.handiham.org/node/941 Amateur radio is about to be introduced to a brand-new entry
in the mobile dual-band radio category, the Wouxun KG-UV920R. Although
at this time we have little in the way of product specs, the Wouxun
dual-band handheld radio that was demonstrated at Handiham Radio Camp
early this year created quite a lot of interest because of its
built-in speech frequency readout for blind users. The KG-UV920R
features dual-frequency display and cross-band repeater capability. It
comes with more than a thousand memory channels. It also includes an
unusual receiver that covers the short-wave bands! We are waiting for
a more detailed specification document so that we can tell if speech
frequency readout will be a feature - and we sure hope that it is! At
this time, no pricing is available. The USA dealer
http://www.wouxun.us says on its website that the rig is "coming
soon". The KG-UV2D HT is featured on that website. Large
Picture of the KG-UV920R http://wouxun.us/
Monthly Meetings
General Meeting third Friday of every month at 7:30pm.
We are located at the Northridge Medical Center Hospital.
18300 Roscoe Blvd
Northridge, CA 91325
5th floor Penthouse
Monthly Luncheon
Our next lunch will be at the Pizza Cookery, in Woodland Hills,
6209 Topanga Cyn Bl, 818-887-4770. Enter on Erwin St, west
of Topanga, behind Shelley's Stereo. Sat, Feb 11, at 11:30am.
See you there! Elaine
Lunch at Denny's
every Thursday @ 11:00am Several members of the club gather for lunch on:
Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. at Denny's.
16575 Sherman Way
Van Nuys, CA 91406-3732
(818) 994-0952
Everyone is welcome to attend.
The San Fernando Valley Amateur Radio
Club offers, to a licensed ham, a simplex
net on 2 meters. The net is held every Tuesday
evening at 20:00 local time on 145.570 MHz. All amateurs are welcome to
check-in.
We hold 2m Repeater Net every Thursday Evening (with
some exceptions) at 20:00 local time on the Magic Mountain Machine at
147.735 MHz, with a transmit offset down (-) 600 KHz and a PL tone of 100
Hz. If Magic is down or unavailable, we will meet on the Duck Mountain
Machine at 147.240 MHz, with a plus (+) transmit offset and no PL tone. All
amateurs are welcome to check in.
A High Frequency Net on Wednesday
Evenings at 20:00 local time. This net takes place at 28.310 MHz +/- QRM.
This is in the Upper Side Band Mode. All amateurs are welcome to check
in.
The San Fernando Valley
Amateur Radio Club would like to extend a special thanks to the owner of
the Magic Mountain Repeater, Dennis, KB6C, for allowing us to use his
repeater each and every week for our nets.
Every
year we participate in the ARRL Field Day. This year it is June
26-27, 2010 (Always The Fourth Full Weekend In June)