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JOIN THE ARRL FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A DREAM STATION!
SDARC CLUB MEMBERS! join — or renew — your ARRL membership any time from now until December 31st, 2025, and you are automatically entered into the ARRL Sweepstakes and could win a dream station from Icom. Not an ARRL member? Join today! Already a member or Life Member? There are even more ways to automatically earn entries. If you sign-up for Auto-Renewal of your membership, you get an additional 2 entries, Donate $50 to the ARRL Diamond Fund and you earn another entry!
You can earn up to 6 entries.
JOIN NOW through SDARC and the club gets a $15 thank you from the ARRL. RENEW your ARRL membership and the club gets $5! You must join or renew through the club - so come to a club meeting and help the club and at the same time you could win an Icom Dream Station!
For more info on how to join ARRL through your club, see the club Treasurer.
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MONTHLY CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
MARCH 13TH, 2025
STOCKTON SAILING CLUB
4980 BUCKLEY COVE, STOCKTON
QST QST QST… The March Meeting of the Stockton-Delta Amateur Radio Club will be held on March 13th, 2025 starting at 1900 hours at the
Stockton Sailing Club Auditorium. The address is 4980 Buckley Cove Rd in Stockton. The Sailing
Club is located at the west end of March Lane, west of Interstate 5 on the
left-hand side of the road just before you enter Buckley Cove Park.
The March meeting is just two weeks before Lincoln Unified School District's STEAMFest 2025. The event takes place on March 22nd. We need as many members as possible to man our huge booth, answer questions and demonstrate various parts of ham radio to both young and old!
The meeting training program is demonstrating some of the new things we will be doing at STEAMFest.
Grab your spouse, significant other or just that friend that
wants to “see what the ham radio club is all about” and join us for next club
meeting. Coffee and refreshments are provided.
If you have challenges attending the meeting in person, you
can join the meeting on Zoom.
Topic: W6SF CLUB MEETING ON ZOOM - MARCH
Time: MARCH 13TH, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8715741939?pwd=alRiTFhydFNtMlBQZXAwOUd2YTN1UT09&omn=87021549871
Meeting ID: 871 574 1939
Passcode: 147165
One tap mobile
+16699009128,,8715741939#,,,,*147165# US (San Jose)
+16694449171,,8715741939#,,,,*147165# US
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GET READY FOR STEAMFEST 2025 MARCH 22ND 10:00 AM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL - STOCKTON
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The club has been invited to be a participant in the
World of STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Math) on Saturday March 22ND
at Lincoln High School. The event runs from 10:00AM to 2:00PM
We will be setting up starting at 8:00 AM. We need some club members to help with set-up.
The club will
offer interactive displays of Morse Code, by Bob K6DGQ and anyone with straight
key or paddles and code practice oscillators would be welcome to bring them for
kids and their parents to try their Morse Code skills.
We will be on the air with HF/VHF/UHF as well. We will be
demonstrating WINLink email, packet, EMCOMM, HF Radio on FT-8. We will be
offering an interface with WINLink allowing people to send as radiogram to
anyone in the United States.
We are working on a Transmitter Hunt Game and Digital TV
set-ups with members of MDARC.
We will need lots of volunteers as operators and as
facilitators answering questions for the kids and their parents that attend. We
are expecting at least 3000 students and their families to attend this event! A sign-up page is posted on the Event Sign-Up tab on the website. You can also email John NZ6Q nz6q@arrl.net and let him know that you can attend and how long you can stay.
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PEDALING PATHS SUCCESS GREAT EVENT - GREAT DAY FEBRUARY 22ND
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The 16th Annual Pedaling Paths to Independence Bike Ride is in the books for 2025! We delivered a great event host 127 riders this year. Thanks especially to Annie N6ACL, Joni KN6WVX, Paul N6KZW, Mark W6SXA and Steve KM6ZJJ who are the driving force getting things together. Joyce K6QBQ will be compiling income and expenses, and we should have a tally on the donation to the CCBVI in the coming weeks. Club members to only ran communications, but also SAG support, logistics and manning rest stops keeping riders fed and hydrated across the course. Comm Ops worked extremely well and there were very few incidents requiring SAG support - most thanks to the perfect weather! More pictures and details will be in the March 2025 "Flysheet" club newsletter coming soon. 
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HAMCRAM ONE-DAY TECHNICIAN COURSE + VE SESSION MAY 17TH, 2025
DOORS OPEN 7:45 AM
STOCKTON FIRE STATION #2
BRET LAWES CLASSROOM 110 W SONORA ST, STOCKTON, CA 95202
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
This class will be an instructor-led One Day KB6NU Study Guided HamCram study session.
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.
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W6SF CLUB BREAKFAST THURSDAY MORNINGS 9:00 AM THE OMLETTE HOUSE
CHEROKEE AND 99 ON THE WEST SIDE
OF THE FREEWAY
Club members and friends of Amateur Radio are welcome to gather at 9:00 AM on Thursdays for Hamz n Eggs Breakfast... This week is at The Omlette House, 3455 N Cherokee Lane in Stockton.
We enjoy a high level discussions of ham radio communications, rules, regulations, contesting, SOTAs, ARES gear and whatever else 'ya got.
DX, county and state , SOTA, and POTA hunters! This is a reminder that you are expected to attend Thursday's breakfast or face demerits on your FCC issued license.
Schmoozing starts about 8:30am so bring your latest stories, gadgets and lies to entertain everyone - get there early!
I hope to see you there! de N6LHL
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THANKS DAVE NAVONE FOR THE LINK TO THIS COOL VIDEO ALL ABOUT HAM RADIO AND THE TV SHOW "LAST MAN STANDING"
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W6SF 2019 FIELD DAY VIDEO CHECK IT OUT! THANK YOU DENNIS AD6DM
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CHECK OUT OUR OWN BOB KM6ONS AND KYLE K6KDD ON GOOD DAY SACRAMENTO
AUGUST 28, 2018
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CLUB REPEATERS
Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 2500 feet, the club repeaters cover the Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys. The call-sign is W6SF and can be heard on 147.165 MHz and on 442.250 MHz with a PL of 107.2 Hz. Club simplex frequency is 147.51 MHz.
SDARC also has a UHF repeater, operating independently, on 444.575+ PL 107.2. This is a local low level Stockton repeater with the call W6SF. As the project progresses, three receiver/voters will be installed via T1 phone lines and the addition of IRLP linking to other repeaters. CLUB REPEATERS
Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 2500 feet, the club repeaters cover the Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys. The call-sign is W6SF and can be heard on 147.165 MHz and on 442.250 MHz with a PL of 107.2 Hz. Club simplex frequency is 147.51 MHz.
SDARC also has a UHF repeater, operating independently, on 444.575+ PL 107.2. This is a local low level Stockton repeater with the call W6SF. As the project progresses, three receiver/voters will be installed via T1 phone lines and the addition of IRLP linking to other repeaters. CLUB REPEATERS
Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 2500 feet, the club repeaters cover the Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys. The call-sign is W6SF and can be heard on 147.165 MHz and on 442.250 MHz with a PL of 107.2 Hz. Club simplex frequency is 147.51 MHz.
SDARC also has a UHF repeater, operating independently, on 444.575+ PL 107.2. This is a local low level Stockton repeater with the call W6SF. As the project progresses, three receiver/voters will be installed via T1 phone lines and the addition of IRLP linking to other repeaters. CLUB REPEATERS
Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at 2500 feet, the club repeaters cover the Southern Sacramento and Northern San Joaquin Valleys. The call-sign is W6SF and can be heard on 147.165 MHz and on 442.250 MHz with a PL of 107.2 Hz. Club simplex frequency is 147.51 MHz.
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