Amateur Radio at UC Santa Cruz

Previous Events of IEEE-Ham

• Field Day 2004: Saturday, June 26 to Sunday, June 27, noon to noon, East Field: Field Day! If you are an amateur radio operator and would like to help out, we are looking for voice and CW operators! Contact Erick/KG6NOT or Brian/KF6YWO (erick or shroom at dv8 dot org, respectively). If you are not licensed, come to our exam session and get your ham license! Otherwise, come support us, and take a look at what ham radio and emergency preparedness is all about. We will have brochures and will be glad to show you the ropes and answer all your questions! See also Brian's pictures from FD2003. Friday, June 25, 7:00pm, East Field: Field Day setup! We still need volunteers to help set up the campsite, antenna, emergency power, etc. Please contact Erick/KG6NOT or Brian/KF6YWO (erick or shroom at dv8 dot org, respectively), or post to the IEEE-ham mailing list.
• Wednesday, June 23, 6:00pm - 8:00pm at UCSC Bakin Engineering Room 330: Amateur Radio exam session with ARRL/VEC. All elements will be available. Bring two forms of identification (one must be a picture ID), CSCEs from a prior test, or your current license (original and photocopy), your SSN or FRN, and $12 exam fee. Contact Eric/AE6HZ (ecain at phosphor dot net) for more information. Directions
• Field Day 2003 was great! Please visit Brian's pictures, fire's Field Day brochure [pdf].
• Sunday, July 13, 4:00pm, Sabieng: Post-field day dinner. The completed ARRL field day result packet will be presented, and Field Days for 2003 and 2004 will be discussed. Bring your Field Day 2003 photos to share! Please RSVP to Brian/KF6YWO by Friday, July 11.
• Saturday, October 4, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available. Directions.
• Field Day, June 27-29, 1100hrs Friday through 1100hrs Sunday (+time to breakdown): East Field
• Friday, June 27, Field Day Exam at 6:00pm, BE330. All elements will be available. Directions. Congratulations new upgrades! Erick Castillo (KG6NOT) and Brian Feaster (KF6YWO) both received their General licenses at the Field Day exam. Congratulations new ham! Timothy Jordan (KG6RVL) passed his Element 2 at the Field Day exam.
• Saturday, May 3, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available. Directions. (room location to be confirmed)
• Saturday, March 1, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available. Directions.
• Monday, December 9: Congratulations new ham! Steve Kuhn successfully passed Element 1 and is now KG6OFH.
• Tuesday, October 15: Congratulations new ham! Erick Castillo (KG6NOT) was the only new ham at our first exam session on Saturday.
• Saturday, February 1, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available. Directions.
• Saturday, December 7, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available.
• Thursday, November 14, 6pm, BE152: General meeting: WA6HHQ will give a talk on amateur radio at our meeting.

  High Performance Receiver Design - Triple conversion, Double Conversion, Single Conversion - What's best? What's really important? Design tradeoffs and why this stuff fun to design and use!

  He will cover what's really important in high performance receiver design with examples from current real world products. He will also discuss the design tradeoffs between analog and software/DSP implementations.

  This is an informal talk, so questions during the presentation are welcomed!

• Saturday, November 2, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session. All elements will be available.
• Monday and Tuesday, October 14 and 15: CANCELLED: IEEE-Ham tactical net for Lecturer/Staff strike. More information, timeslots available. For even more information or to volunteer, e-mail fire/AE6IN at soe dot ucsc dot edu. An e-mail with instructions will be sent out to volunteers on Sunday, October 13.
• Sunday, October 13, 10:30am, BE152: Amateur Radio exam session hosted by IEEE, sponsored by Sunnyvale VEC ARC, Inc. Please contact AE6HZ -at- arrl -dot- net or look for him on K6BJ/R for more information. If you get lost on your way to the exam, we will be monitoring K6BJ/R (146.790- PL94.8) before the exam starts. What should I bring?
• Friday, October 11: October Shortskip has two articles by AE6IN: "Ode to CW" on page 2, as well as our Ham Exam announcement on page 4. ShortSkip by K6BJ.
• Thursday, October 3, 8pm, BE152: General IEEE meeting, where Professor Petersen and the officers will talk about Amateur Radio and Field Day (as well as other general-meeting-type things).
• Friday, October 11: October Shortskip has two articles by AE6IN: "Ode to CW" on page 2, as well as our Ham Exam announcement on page 4. ShortSkip by K6BJ.
• Saturday, September 14: "UCSC Hams Get On The Air" by KG6KXF in K6BJ's monthly publication, ShortSkip.
• Saturday, September 14: UCSC now has 3 VE's registered with Sunnyvale VEC ARC, Inc.
• Saturday, September 14: Congratulations to Alexandra Carey (KG6KXF->AE6IN) who passed Element 4 and is now an extra-class station.
• Saturday, September 7: Congratulations to Alexandra Carey (KG6KXF) who passed Element 3 and is now an general-class station.
• Field Day 2002: KG6LWC's pictures, plus our story, Ham radio operators at UCSC will be 'talking to the world', in UCSC Currents Online.
• Saturday, August 24: IEEE-Ham Barbecue
• Saturday, August 10: Congratulations Eric Cain (KG6LSM->AE6HZ) passed Element 4 and is now an extra-class station. Charles Shiflett (KG6MUK) passed Element 2.
• Sometime around August 3: Congratulations nearly-new hams! Eric Cain (KG6LSM) passed Element 1, the morse code exam, and Phil White (KG6BMQ) passed Element 3, the General test.
• Wednesday, July 30: Congratulations Eric Cain (KG6LSM) passed Element 3 and is now a general-class station.
• Saturday and Sunday, June 22 - 23: Join us for Field Day at the East Field. Get involved! You don't have to be a licensed amateur radio operator to help out or hang out on Field Day. Come see what ham radio is all about! Talk to excited and sleepy hams; help us by logging contacts. E-mail fire/KG6KXF if you'd like to help out in the HF (high frequency) tent. Here are the meeting minutes from our June 10th meeting, a few organizational notes, and our beta-version Field Day Brochure, to be available at our information table during Field Day. Field Day 2002 Rules
• Friday, June 21: IEEE Field Day Camp-out! At sundown, we will set up camp in the East Field at UCSC. We will have finished setup for Saturday and Sunday's Field Day, an amateur radio event. Bring your camping supplies and join us for a night under the stars! Free food provided by IEEE Student Branch.
• Friday, June 21: Congratulations new hams! The following people got their technician-class licenses after Friday, June 21. KG6MBO Peter Belew; KG6MBP Andrew Stitt; KG6MBQ Philip White; KG6MBR Dev Gopalkrishnan; KG6MBS Robert Vitale; KG6MBT Suellene Petersen; KG6MBU Michael Soland.
• Friday, June 21: Amateur Radio Exam session here at UCSC on Friday, June 21, 2002 @ 6:00pm sharp in Baskin Engineering room 165. Don't forget to bring $10 cash! Walk-in. No reservations required. Important: Bring two forms of identification (one should be a picture ID), the original and a photocopy of your current Amateur Radio license (if you are a Ham), and the original and a photocopy of any CSCEs showing earlier completions.
• Saturday, June 15: Congratulations new hams! Eric Perlman (KG6LWC) and Daniel Walker (KG6LWD) passed the no-code technician test in Redwood City. Alexandra Carey (KG6KXF) passed the 5WPM code test. Last Monday, June 10, Eric Cain (KG6LSM) passed the no-code technician test.
• Thursday, June 13: We have an ieee-ham mailing list!

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