[SCCC] SCCC Meeting on September 25th

[Richard J. Norton]

MEETING

Keep your calendars open on Saturday, September 25th, at noon, for the Southern
California Contest Club special fall equinox celebration and meeting. This will
be held just after the TRW Swap Meet.

Keep checking your E-mail for the meeting location and directions. Tentatively,
we will meet at the Yorba Linda home of Jim Neiger, N6TJ-ZD8Z. Jim travels
frequently and his schedule is not certain at the present time. The backup
meeting location will be my QTH in Topanga.

If the meeting is at Jim's house, I am contemplating arranging installation of
Jim's vertical antenna that his XYL, Marilyn, has reportedly been wanting to
see gracing the abode. We will need a team of 8 or so strong hands for the job.
Four or five will hold Jim down and keep him from thwarting the job. The
remaining few can put the antenna up. With the recent loss of the W6KP site,
and apparent impending end to K6RO's giant station, an N6TJ-vertical
installation might end up being one of our preeminent contest QTHs before long.

PROGRAM

Seriously, let's talk about plans for the fall. What have you got in mind?

Also, what's happening to contesting and even ham radio in general. Is
everybody leaving Southern California?

N6AA ARRL DIRECTOR CAMPAIGN

Although the swelling has gone down that resulted from landing on my head after
falling off the roller coaster, the desire to become an ARRL Director that
immediately followed remains. I'm an official candidate, and have spent a lot
of time recently, visiting radio clubs and campaigning. It certainly gives one
a different view of the hobby than one gets from hanging out with only
contesters and DXers. If any of you haven't seen my flyer, the information is
at www.kkn.net/n6aa.

CALIFORNIA QSO PARTY

You will find the CQP on the bands one week after the upcoming SCCC meeting. I
don't normally do much in the CQP, but his year I'll host a little multi-op.
There's a group of Topanga amateurs who got their licenses for the expressed
purpose of doing disaster communications. They practice using their (handheld)
radios on a Sunday night net. Some of them actually desire to become better
operators. At a recent meeting, one of them mentioned contests as being a good
way to improve, and that he had been on in the NAQP. I volunteered to host
whoever wants to come over and see if we can try operating without using a
separate logger. If you hear N6AA operating a little less efficiently than you
might expect, please go easy on the op.

FEEDBACK

If you have a preference regarding the September meeting site, please let me
know. If you think you will attend please let me know. If you have anything you
would like brought up at the meeting, please let me know.

Thanks.

73,

Dick, N6AA
SCCC President
(310) 455-1138
N6AA [{at]} ARRL.NET (type it in)