The clock is ticking ⏰ 1 week left for online registration to PACIFICON℠ 2024

The last day to register online and save $10 is midnight Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 Pacific time.

You can also save $5 on the Antenna seminar when you register online.

Antenna Seminar at the door will be $25

Registration at the door will be $45

We've got some well known, dare we say famous Amateur Radio personalities this year. Of course, we have the much loved and dynamic Gordon West, WB6NOA, but we also have another well-known Amateur Radio personality, Dave Casler, KE0OG of the Ask Dave QST Magazine column and YouTube videos. And, Dr. Ed Fong, WB6IQN, who is a well known UC Santa Cruz professor and 'antenna guru'. He will be speaking at the Friday evening MDARC Open Meeting! How about meeting the CEO of ARRL, David Minster, NA2AA at the ARRL booth?

SERIOUSLY, you really don't want to miss this, so ATTENDEES REGISTER HERE NOW!

Want more? -- Of course you do...

Pacificon℠ gives you three great days of activities for one low cost:

* A full slate of outstanding Forum presentations about a wide range of amateur radio topics

* An all-day Antenna Seminar (additional fee required)

* Gordon West, WB6NOA: Author, educator, speaker and irrepressible promoter of all things radio

* Large Vendor and Nonprofit expo filled with exciting products and exhibits

* Events including an outdoor Swap Meet hosted by livermoreark.org.

* Youth Activities

* Parachute Mobile contacts

* Electronics kit building and soldering instruction

* A One Day License Prep Class to prepare you to pass the amateur radio Technician license examination and get your first amateur radio license

* Two days of License Testing

* A Special Events Station W1AW/6 where you can operate and contact other hams worldwide, even if you don't have a license, hosted by paara.org.

* Our wonderful Banquet & Keynote Speaker (additional fee required)

* Our annual Wouff Hong Initiation ceremony

* A chance to hear about and discuss important national amateur radio issues with top ARRL leaders

* A chance to win radios and other great prizes throughout the convention

* M17 digital voice mode (patent free) and MMDVM talk and booths. M17 is supported by our repeater W6CX.

* First annual conference was held in San Francisco in 1920.

And perhaps the best part - a chance to interact and share information with lots of other amateur radio enthusiasts to further (or begin) your own knowledge and to advance the hobby.

ARRL SCHOOL CLUB ROUND-UP

OCTOBER 21ST -25TH 

ON-THE-AIR 

Right after Pacificon, there is a 2nd great opportunity to Get On-The-Air with School Club Round-up.  School Amateur Radio Club s will be on the air and they need all of us to work them!  You can be part of shaping a young ham's future. 

There are two School Club Roundups during each school year in October and February. Each 5-day event runs Monday through Friday from 1300 UTC Monday through 2359 UTC Friday. A station may operate no more than 6 hours in a 24-hour period, and a maximum of 24 hours of the 107 hour event.

October Session: The third full school week of October.

February Session: The second full school week of February. 
 

Exchange: Your call sign, Signal report, Class (“Individual”, “Club” or “School”), U.S. State, Canadian Province/Territory or DXCC country/entity. (Multi-operator group stations must choose one call sign to use for the whole operating period.) Be sure to extend a welcome to young operators and encourage them to be more Radio Active! 

Read the full set of rules HERE at www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup

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

AUGUST 28, 2018