Carl Gardenias WU6D, our ARRL Orange Section Manager will be our January speaker. Carl’s presentation will be on the subject of building club membership.

• Carl has been in Amateur Radio since 1969, but at age 10 started with crystal radios and shortwave listening
• Carl is our ARRL Orange Section Manager since 2003
• Special appointment by the Ad Hoc Planning Committee of the ARRL in 2002
• Base MARS Director during service to his country, Air Force
• Amateur Radio Instructor, VE both ARRL & W5YI
• Past Scout Master, Arrowhead Council Scoutmaster training coordinator, & Indian guides/princesses YMCA nation chief
• Chair of the International DX Convention 10 years.
• Past president and current director of the So. Calif. DX Club
• Carl lives in Perris with his wife Cathy K6VC where they share a hamshack and a variety of antennas that they have built and tested with friends. Their latest project has been a 160m two vertically phased antennas.