San Jose State University Amateur Radio Club - W6YL

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2006-11-01: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, November 9th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room.

2006-10-20: Fox Hunt on Friday, October 27th at 10:00AM. We will start the hunt in the radio room, Engr 376A. If you have a 2-meter radio, please bring it and make sure the batteries are charged.

2006-10-03: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, October 12th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room. Our guest speaker will be Chris Verges from SVWUX. Chris will be discussing the SVWUX wireless mesh network project. We will move to the Student Union, 3rd Floor, Pacheco Room at 7:30PM for the presentation. Don't miss it!

2006-08-15: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, September 14th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room. We are accepting nominations for Treasurer. Nominations close when the meeting starts. Elections will be held shortly thereafter.

2006-04-13: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, May 11th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room. We are accepting nominations for all officer positions. Nominations close when the meeting starts. Elections will be held shortly thereafter.

2006-04-13: The club will be giving a ham radio class (Element 2) for SJSU students and staff in Engineering 376 on: Friday, May 5th at 6:00PM

2006-03-09: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, April 13th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room.

2006-03-09: The club will be giving a ham radio class (Element 2) for SJSU students and staff in Engineering 376 on: Friday, March 17th at 6:00PM

2006-02-17: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, March 9th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room.

2006-02-01: Club meeting will be: Thursday, February 9th at 7:00PM in the Radio Room.

2005-10-20: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, November 17th at 8:00PM in the Radio Room. We will be discussing participation in Field Day 2006 and recruitment for the next semester.

2005-10-11: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, October 20th at 8:00PM in the Radio Room.

2005-09-14: Our interview with The Spartan Daily was featured in the September 14th edition. (Not the Sept. 13th edition as previously announced. It was postponed by one day.)

2005-09-07: Next Club meeting will be: Thursday, September 15th at 8:00PM in the Radio Room.

2005-09-07: We had an interview with The Spartan Daily. The article will be featured in the September 13th edition.

2005-08-30: Club meeting: Thursday, September 1st at 8:00PM in the Radio Room.

2004-08-03: We're repainting the radio room this month. We are tentatively planning to undertake this endeavour August 21-22. We still need people and paint. Classes begin August 25th.

2004-03-24: We need your help! The tower and antennas in the engineering courtyard need to be moved to the roof of the engineering building. This move will occur this Friday, March 26 at 8:00am. We will convene in the courtyard.

2004-03-24: We have a ham that needs help putting up a di-pole. Contact our President if you wish to volunteer. Free pizza will be provided.

2004-03-11: We had a brief meeting today. One of the members propsoed a fox hunt. This proposal had enthusiastic support. We plan to have another on-campus VE Exam session in 2 to 3 weeks. Today's election was successful. We now have an all-ham cast of elected officers: President: Jared Buckley KG6RHS, Vice-President: Eric Stackpole KF6JBP, Secretary: Eric Cain AE6HZ, Treasurer: Vitaliy Alexeev KG6LRI.

2004-03-05: SJSUARC participated in the College of Engineering open house. Many high school and community college students passed through. We had a couple of them use our club call on the air.
[SJSUARC Open house] [SJSUARC Open house]

2004-03-04: SJSUARC to have a elections next Thursday, March 11th at 1:00pm in the Radio Room. The meeting will start with business and elections will be held shortly thereafter. (around 1:30pm) Please show up on time to make your vote count. To run for an office, please let the Secretary know. You can declare your candidacy anytime up to the beginning of the meeting.

2004-03-01: SJSUARC to have elections in 1-2 weeks. If you are interested in running for an office, please let the Secretary know.

2004-02-23: New link to SJSUARC placed on the SJSU Student Life and Leadership List of Organizations page.

2004-02-22: SJSUARC added to the list of clubs on the ARRL Santa Clara Valley Section page.

2004-02-05: We had an excellent first meeting. 6 new members joined. Membership has increased by 7 members this semester. Interested in getting licensed? Check the ARRL License Exam Search page: http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml and Sunnyvale VEC ARC, Inc.: http://www.amateur-radio.org/. If you are willing to go down to Monterey on February 28, you can take the exam for free. More details here: http://www.radiofest.org/veexam.html.
Some practice sites: http://www.wvara.org/perl/wvexam, http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/, http://www.qrz.com/p/testing.pl, http://www.w8mhb.com/exam/, http://www.eham.net/exams/.

2004-01-30: First meeting & membership drive of the year announced: Thursday, February 5, 2004, 1-3pm. IEEE Room - Engineering Building, Room 376A

2003-12-08: New link to SJSUARC placed on EE Student Organizations page.

2003-11-22: We had a successful exam Saturday afternoon and plan to have another exam next semester.

2003-11-20: The officers of SJSUARC have appointed a new advisor, Morris Jones, AD6ZH!

2003-10-09: We had an article written about the club in the Spartan Daily: "SJSU radio club looks for a global frequency"