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Join us for a casual Parks On The Air (POTA) meetup at Elizabeth Peak in Cedar Ridge, Tuolumne County, on Sunday, April 26th. See the events calendar on the tcares.net home page for details.

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For those of you who were unable to attend Steve’s recent presentation to the club about his scuba diving trip to Asia, here is his YouTube video. Enjoy! And thank you, Steve!!

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For more information on the race, follow this link:

JAMESTOWN RUN

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1. Lots of antenna articles:
   • Revisiting the Quagi Directional Antenna
   • Optimized Moxy Antennas for 2, 6, and 10 Meter Bands
   • A Portable HF Glove Antenna
   • Chelegance KC4 Four Band Antenna
   • Radioddity HF-009 Portable HF Antenna (Good For POTA!)
   • Plus four more antenna articles
     
2. An interesting article on using an EV to provide AC power for POTA
   
3. HAM support for a six day bicycle ride in Montana. Think snow, hailstorms, broken
   bones, etc.
   
4. ARES® Growth, Evolution, Enhancement
   
5. And a look back 100, 50, and 25 years ago.
   
6. Highlights of On The Air Magazine
   • Technician Class – Maximum Possibilities
   • The Worked All States Award
   • Hints and Hacks

These are sent in by Rich, KK6RIC, to keep up up to date on the latest articles in the ARRL’s QST magazine (www.arrl.org).

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Here are some photos of the some of the crew enjoying their time at Winter Field Day.

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by Richard Combs

Pinecrest Expedition Academy is a very outdoors oriented hands-on school. So, under the guise of giving a presentation about amateur radio, a few of us arranged for a Fox Hunt for the students. Those in the know realize this is not an actual fox hunt, but rather an exercise in radio direction finding. With the help of Greg Kiyoi KN6RUQ and “Fox Master “Brian Zoraster KA6ZED, foxes were found, and students educated.

My task was talking about radios, its history, and how they work. There were two groups young K-3 and older 4-7 graders, somewhat of a challenge for me. Both groups were however, inquisitive and engaged. We started with some tin can phones, then I cut the string and said “Now what?” After a little history and some more discussion, we eventually headed out for the hunt. Brian Zoraster had 3D printed two custom tape measure Yagi antennas, and after some instruction the students were off for the hunt. None of the foxes got away, and the students seemed to have fun, expressing surprise when they located the fox/transmitter. 

Special thanks to Brian and Greg who made the trip up to the school near Pinecrest early in the morning. The next challenge will be to try and monitor the ISS transmissions with the antennas Brian left with the school. 

You can see Brian’s antennas and setup at Pacificon.  On with the hunt!

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Scroll through this presentation or download the whole file to view it any way you prefer. Enjoy.

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