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Welcome To WVARA

WVARA Has an Awesome Field Day!

Field Day is a great opportunity to get outdoors, gain experience assembling equipment in the rough, and operate a station under challenging band conditions.  This year the weather was hot, but so were the bands, with plenty of contacts made by our West Valley Amateur Radio Assoc team.  We operated QRP in the 9A Battery from Mora Hill overlooking Los Altos, California, from an elevation of 500 feet. 
Refer to our Field Day page for more details on this year’s adventure!

2010 Meeting schedule

Steve will cover the ins and outs of HF radio wave propagation. Every Amateur HF operator needs to know some basic radio science in order to operate effectively, whether doing DX, local NVIS, or ground wave, and
whether contesting, participating in a traffic net, or simply rag chewing. Steve will first review the physical behavior of the ionosphere, then explain skywave propagation effects in terms of solar and ionospheric phenomena. Finally he will survey HF propagation prediction software programs and demonstrate their utility to Amateur Radio HF operation.

Steve Stearns, K6OIK, started in ham radio while in high school at the height of the Heathkit era. He holds FCC Amateur Extra and a commercial General Radio Operator license with Radar endorsement. He previously held Novice, Technician, and 1st Class Radiotelephone licenses. He studied electrical engineering at California State University Fullerton, the University of Southern California, and Stanford, specializing in electromagnetics, communication engineering and signal processing. Steve is currently Senior Staff Engineer at Northrop Grumman's Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory in San Jose, California, where he is leading the development of advanced signal processing algorithms for communication signal processing systems. Steve is also serving as assistant director of ARRL Pacific Division, and vice-president of the Foothills Amateur
Radio Society. He has over 50 professional publications and eight patents. Steve has received numerous awards for professional and community volunteer activities.

Meeting information and Maps is available on our Meetings Page.

The next meeting of the West Valley Amateur Radio Association is on Wednesday evening, January 20 at 7:00 p.m.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING MEETING TIMES:

We have permanently changed the meeting time to 7:00 PM.

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You can write to the WVARA at:

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

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