The annual Linden Cherry Festival is May 17, 2025 Saturday and the Stockton Delta Amateur Radio Club has been asked to provide communication support again this year.  Participation from other clubs is welcome.

The Linden Cherry Festival centers around the cherry crop, which the Linden area is well known for. As you can see by the festival link here 

https://www.lindenchamber.net/cherryfestival

The festival includes a parade starting at 10:00 AM and activities at 11:00 AM. The festival is an open-air event in the Grammar School fields.  The organizers may have some private security and members from the Linden Peters Fire Department and SJ County Sheriffs providing public safety, as well as exhibitions. We need a person to monitor the parade for the first hour and several at the festival from 10:00 AM to about 4:00 PM.  Volunteers would be public liaisons/contacts for the event safety and organizers, through Network Control. Tactical/Directed Net protocols will be used. Everyone will need to always wear a safety vest when you are on duty.

This is a great event for experienced and new Hams alike. Newcomers to Amateur radio can be paired with experienced operators to Elmer (coach) them and help with radio and Tactical Net operations. This is a great way for inexperienced licensees to get some hands-on experience. If you are not yet licensed, you can be paired with someone who is, to see what it is like and get some airtime under someone else's license. This will be simplex, so no repeater protocol is needed. The festival is laid back and provides time to help each other and enjoy the sights.  You can work a partial shift if you aren't available for the full time.  We just need to cover the hours listed.

To sign up, just email your name, phone number, email address, call sign and time you can work, as well as any comments to Cecil W6CPR at cprendon@aol.com.

MUSEUM SHIPS WEEKEND
JUNE 6TH - 8TH
ABOARD THE USS LUCID

Welcome aboard the USS Lucid! Our next big operating event will be MSW!  John NZ6Q will be coordinating operating aboard the USS Lucid. If you like ships and are an amateur radio operator, or you just want to get on the air as the “Rare DX” we will be one of about 120 ships will be on the air for the annual Museum Ships Weekend event. This is not a contest, but a fun event that feels a lot like a contest. We will be on board and operating starting Friday June 6th.  We will be testing and operating during the day.  The event starts at 0000Z June 7th (which is Friday June 6th at 17:00 PDT).  Prior to operating, we will need to set-up antennas for 80M through 10M and maybe even 6M this year.  

Our current antenna raising plan is to be on the ship the previous Saturday, May 30th at 10:00 AM to install the HexBeam on the top of the ship and 80/40 Dipole between the ship and the shore. We may also add an end-fed half-wave antenna between the ship and the flagpole on shore. 

We will be setting up radios this year on the ship's fan tail - no more climbing 3 flights of stairs to operate.  The current plan is to set-up 3 radios positions with variable filter set-ups for the operating conditions.  

All stations that contact at least 15 different participating ships can receive a certificate - in addition to representing the USS Lucid, we are helping amateur radio operators achieve that goal.  PLUS - It’a a lot of FUN!

Click here if you would like to sign-up for a specific operating time and date.  Otherwise just show up, explore the ship, get on the air, enjoy some food and have a great time!

Here's your chance to get your license and join the fun of ham radio! Did you know that during the recent storms and flooding around San Joaquin County, ham radio operators we still able to communicate, able to access their own email, data and internet sites.  Ham radio operators are part of the teams that help the community through a natural disaster - The next HamCram study and test session will be held at:

Stockton Fire Station #2 - Bret Lawes Classroom,
110 W Sonora St,
Stockton, CA 95202

If you are interested in doing a HamCram Study Session to get your Technician License, OR you are testing for an upgrade, or you or a family member wants to get your license, please pre-register at www.w6sf.org/hamcram.html . 

HamCram study session starts at 8:00 AM and the doors will open at 7:45.

The Test Only sessions will start at 3:00 PM

Sign up for the next HamCram clicking the link here.

CHECK OUT OUR OWN BOB KM6ONS AND KYLE K6KDD ON GOOD DAY SACRAMENTO

AUGUST 28, 2018