JULY CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

The July 2018 meeting will be held at The Amblers Club, 2000 Amblers Lane off Country Club Blvd just 3/10THs of a mile west of Interstate 5 in North Stockton.  The meeting will start at 7:30 PM.  There will be a meet-and-greet at the club bar starting at 7:00 PM.  Wine and Beer will be available for purchase. 

After a short business meeting agenda, we will have a guest speaker.  Program TBA

The meeting will conclude with a donated prize raffle. Tickets are $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. 

Twice a year, ARRL offers an event designed to promote Amateur Radio to our youth.  Kids Day is designed to give on-the-air experience to young people and hopefully foster interest in getting a license of their own. It is also intended to give older hams a chance to share their station and love for Amateur Radio with their children.

This June 16^th, Bob K6DGQ, Ron KG7OR and others will again be taking Kids Day out to the Galt Public Library.  The ARRL even picked up on the story from the Galt Herald and you can read that here: ARRL MEDIA HITS PAGE

The W6SF club also activated Kids Day at the Margaret Troke Library in Stockton. Ed N6XMA and Mark W6SXA have been working with the library to set up a station on Saturday June 16^th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.  After a few glitches in set-up, we were on the air by about 10:15 AM.  Big thanks to Gayle KK6RAO who help get things set up, but also stayed the entire event and gave great demonstrations to the kids. We want to give as many children as possible at the library an opportunity to get on the air.  We had as many or more adults than kids stop and look at our station with 3 saying they were going to come to the HamCram in August. 

The librarian was also very pleased to have us on-site. She not only committed to reserving us better space in January for Kids Day 2019, but to also promote HamCrams through the library's bulletin board and counter space.