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THURSDAY JUNE 11TH, 2026

W6SF JUNE CLUB MEETING
STOCKTON SAILING CLUB CLASSROOM
4980 BUCKLEY COVE, STOCKTON
7:00 PM

QST QST QST… The June Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 11th at the Stockton Sailing Club. The meeting will start at 1900 hours.

Topic: W6SF JUNE MEETING on ZOOM
Time: June 11, 2026 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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Don’t miss this! There are lots of events still coming soon on the club calendar. There will be a report on the USS Lucid Museum Ships Weekend Activation and set-up plans for Field Day in just a couple of weekends after the meeting.

Members in attendance in person can participate in a 50/50 raffle to win half of the donated “kitty” with the club. Our Training Program is on Field Day and Year of the Club 2026.

Grab your spouse, or significant other and come join the meeting. ARRL Field Day is just around the corner too!

JUNE 5 – 7, 2026 (FRIDAY – SATURDAY – SUNDAY)
Welcome Aboard the USS Lucid! The last of the great Navy Wooden Ships!

This is one of the most fun events of the year! You get to be the on the air as the “hunted DX” station, you get to hang out with 20 – 30 of your radio friends, and you get to explore antennas, propagation, and even engineer a connection between a modern Yaesu FTDX101MP transceiver and a 75 year old ships antenna system – then see it come together and work.

We made about 650 – 700 QSOs over the course of the weekend. A big thank you to everyone who came out and helped set up, put us on the air and then stayed over night to operate almost all night long. Great food (Thank you Jeff KK6VXB) lots to snack on and a great weekend to relax and enjoy the airwaves, the ship and the cool breezes on the Delta.

Club members were off to a fast start on 20-M phone with a quick 30 – 40 QSOs in the first hour. Solar flares and other propagation challenges would create noise throughout the weekend and a few hours on Saturday and Sunday morning where there no signals to be heard. Still, the event was great fun and some of the stories we heard were priceless – like the 90 year old ham who served on a sister ship in the 50s and 60s.

Our efforts were captured by local videographer and news maker Mike Cockrell who published this story about MSWE in the Soundings Journal Online Magazine today. You can click on this link to see and hear the story….. https://soundingsmag.net/2026/06/09/radio-waves-from-a-wooden-warship/

The N6MSO callsign is listed in OQRS and club log. Stations who worked us can send a $5 donation through Club Log to get an offiial USS Lucid QSL Card. 100% of that $5 donation goes to the USS Lucid as Annie N6ACL picks up the mailing costs for the cards.

Rachelle N6KKE made over $300 in USS Lucid Merch while on board. Last year we raised about $200 for the USS Lucid in QSL cards. As the QSL Card requests come in, we will see how well we do this year.

JUNE 27TH AND 28TH
COME TO OUR FIELD DAY SITE
12990 N DEVRIES RD, LODI, CA

SDARC will be at Charlie’s vineyard again this year operating on solar power and battery for the 2026 ARRL Field Day and Americaas250 Club Event.  New hams are encouraged to attend. 

Field Day is amateur radio’s annual “Coming Out” party! SDARC and clubs around the country will be on the air making contacts while demonstrating the many aspects of amateur radio.

You’ll be able to make contacts with other hams nationwide and around the world. Last year our new ham Richelle made several contacts in Canada!  We can pair a new hams with an experienced one, so don’t be nervous about getting on the air.  Charlie’s vineyard is located at 12990 DeVries Road, Lodi, CA.  Please invite fiends and family, in addition to learning how to operate in the field, the event is design to introduce amateur radio to a broad range of people.  Come join the fun at Field Day 2026!

You can read more about Field Day on the ARRL website at www.arrl.org/field-day