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Our club station (site 530) is in the Stanford Foothills, accessible by the dish trail. Click the image above to view a map.  

Welcome to the Stanford Amateur Radio Club, W6YX!

Upcoming Meetings:

Next Meeting Date: December 14th
Time: 6:30pm PT
Meeting link: TBD

Talk Topic: TBD

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Who: Michael Walker

What:


Advanced capabilities of modern HF radios and role of SDR technology in making this possible.
Where:   Zoom (link)
Password: 654037
When:
Tues, November 9th,
7:30pm PT

 

Mike VA3MW courtesy of YouTube

 

Happy November, hope everyone's midterms are going well!

For this month's meeting of the Stanford Amateur Radio club, Mike from Flexradio will be giving an exciting talk about the advanced capabilities of modern HF radios and the role of SDR technology in making this possible.

 

"Modern HF and the Role of SDR"

About the talk:

Mike VA3MW will spend about an hour showing how today's HF radio is not only better than yesterday's super-het radio, but you get more performance for your dollar.  He will show how your radio now 'scales' towards the future and not growing old the day you bought it. 

About the speaker:

Michael Walker - VA3MW - was licensed in 1974 and has always loved technology.  His first ‘real’ job with IBM working on an actual Tube computer that had 64,000 tubes in NORAD that was 600ft underground at the height of the cold war. Mike started HF contesting in the early ’90s and loved it.  However, that didn’t stop him from also learning more about RF especially FM and repeaters. He has always loved ham radio and all the parts of Ham radio.  HF, FM, Satellite, and lately how to build a better remote HF station.  Over the past 15 years, he has worked continuously to improve his HF remote station. Mike saw the writing on the wall, aka, the next great thing, when the world moved to Software Defined Radio and how that would shape the future. Over the past 4+ years, he has been working full time for FlexRadio Systems in a variety of roles including inside sales, customer education, and marketing, and loving it and all the amazing people at the company.

The meeting will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday, Nov 9, 2021 at 7:30PM Pacific Time:
https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91512796148?pwd=WFZYdUh4c0NhTGdtT0tpZkdXck9zUT09
Password: 654037

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What:

W6YX Info Session
2021/2022 Academic Year
Where:   Packard Room 204
When:


Tuesday, October 12, 6:30PM

Club's slick new logo, courtesy of W6YX president K9TTL

W6YX Info Session (2021-2022 Academic Year)

Happy October! The new academic year marks the return of in-person classes (for over a year!) as new and returning students breathe life into campus once again. This month’s meeting will be an on-campus info session about W6YX on Tuesday, Oct. 12th at 6:30PM in Packard Building Room 204.

All are welcome to attend and learn more about Stanford's oldest student group still active today.

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What:

Bounce radio signals off of meteor tails during the Perseid meteor shower
Where:   W6YX Shack
When:


Tuesday, August 10, 7:30PM

Illustration of the Perseid Meteor Shower

Perseid Meteor Shower Demo

Happy August! For this month’s meeting, we will be doing a demo of Meteor Scatter communication at 7:30PM on Tuesday, Aug 10 at the W6YX shack. 

Please note that the Dish Trail is currently closed, so pedestrian access to the shack will not be possible. Therefore, please RSVP if you would like to attend and do not have access to the shack via car. If there is large interest then we may need to cap attendance, with preference given to students. 

Also, please let us know if you do have access via car and would be willing to drive people up to the shack.