You are invited to join us for our weekly 7 pm Wednesday night meetings.

February is SIG month! Throughout February we will continue to plan our Special Interest Groups, So, what is a SIG? SIGs, or Special Interest Groups, are are small groups for club members and other interested people to work together on exploring a topic of interest or developing a specific skill.

Throughout February, the Fullerton Radio Club will continue to meet most Wednesdays on Zoom at 7 pm. Weather permitting, the second Wednesday of each month will be an in-person meeting (called TAG) held in the back garden of Walter Clark, one of our club board members. The club will continue to send out weekly email reminders (with the Zoom link) a day or two before the meeting day. Our meetings are open to the public. If you are not on the FRC email list, and would like to be included in our weekly announcements (and receive the Zoom link) contact AD6QF (at) arrl.net.

Wednesday, February 21at 7 pm – Weekly club meeting on Zoom

• Winlink SIG update – Yesterday 2/19/24 Bob, Dick, Bart, and Larry met and did the following:.
  • Download and install Winlink Express
  • Run Winlink Express to create a Winlink email account
  • Compose a Winlink message
  • Connect via Telnet (no radio yet)
  • Send Winlink messages to other members of the SIG
• We will catch up John (and anyone else interested) this week
• Winlink SIG next steps
  • Suggest: download and install VARAHF • Software defined Radio first steps
  • Planning for Digital modes (VARAC?) – Keyboard to keyboard chat mode
  • Contesting update
  • On the air activities
  • Saturdays in the Park – plan outdoor activities – portable operating, skill development (maybe combine with FRC Net / On the air activities)? (4)
  • LoRa, mesh networking, and microcontrollers (3)
  • Vintage Radio restoration and operating – vintage gear net? Warm up those tubes.
  • Instrumentation and measurement • Antennas in the Park – May 11
  • Preliminary planning?

In addition to our SIG discussion, as usual, please bring something to share with the group.
73,
Bob – AD6QF

Wednesday, February 28 at 7 pm – Weekly club meeting on Zoom
TBA