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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: July 13th
Time: 7:30pm PT
Meeting link: TBD

Talk Topic: TBD

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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.

 



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What:

Monthly Club Meeting
📅 July 2021
Where:   W6YX Shack, Jitsi
When:
Tuesday, July 12, 7:30PM

One of the EME rotators up at the Shack. This paticular array has recently benefited from a tune-up and some love.

A Glimmer of Hope: First Hybrid (in person & Jitsi) Meeting of 2021

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Happy July! We will finally have our first in-person monthly meeting in the shack at next Tuesday July 13 at 7:30PM. We will also make the meeting available on Jitsi for anyone who wishes to call in. 

 

A few agenda items for the meeting: 

 

  • Field Day debriefing
  • Perseids meteor scatter in August
  • New student recruitment
  • Prof. Pauly’s licensing class
  • W6YX T-shirts and stickers

 

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To attend in-person (pedestrian):

 

Pedestrians may enter the Dish hiking trail at the main gate on Stanford Ave, and then walk up to the shack (see map). The gate closes to pedestrians at 7:30PM, so please plan to arrive before then. 

 

For safety reasons, and to avoid attracting the attention of the Foothills patrol, please plan to be escorted down the trail via car after the meeting. 

 

 

To attend online:

 

Join at this Jitsi link: https://meet.jit.si/w6yx

 



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What:

 2021 ARRL Field Day

 
Where:   Site 530
When:
Saturday, June 26 - Sunday, June 27

W6YX Participation in the 2021 ARRL Field Day

The Stanford Amateur Radio Club (call sign W6YX) will participate in Field Day, the annual emergency communications preparedness exercise, this year held June 26 and 27. Field Day is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL, arrl.org), the national association for Amateur Radio (a.k.a. "ham radio").

The Amateur Radio Service creates a corps of Federally licensed radio operators who volunteer their skills to assist public safety agencies in the event of a disaster or other incident. Amateur Radio operators must pass a Federal examination and be issued a FCC radio license, which grants licensees "operating privileges" - such as the right to use high power transmitters (over a thousand watts), different modes (such as voice, Morse code, digital, and even television), and thousands of frequencies. In addition to their technology know-how, these trained volunteers provide important communications resources in disasters, locally and globally.

During Field Day, ham radio operators set up in local parks, at shopping malls, or even in their own backyards, and get on the air using generators or battery power. Field Day was designed to test operators' abilities to set up and operate portable stations under emergency conditions such as the loss of electricity, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, etc.

Ken Dueker, Director of the Palo Alto Office of Emergency Services, has said, 

"We want the community to know that in the event of an emergency, ham radio operators will be ready to assist in any way we can. In major disasters during which time normal telecommunications services are disrupted, Amateur Radio has served as an important resource to local relief efforts, working with police, fire, the Red Cross, and other agencies."

Field Day is a serious test of skill, but it is also a contest for fun and the largest "on-air" operating event each year since it began in 1933. During the weekend, radio operators try to contact as many other Field Day stations as possible, simulating emergency message handling.
The Stanford Amateur Radio Club will hold Field Day at Site 530, a location near the famous Stanford Dish, and will be operating during a 24-hour period. Unfortunately due to COVID-19 concerns, the event won’t be open to the public this year.