VOMARC's Event's Photo Page

PACIFICON 2007

Darrel, WD6BOR; wins Pacificon QRP contest.

VOMARC'S November 2004 License Exam

Tom, KG6QJQ; Steve, KD6KVY; and Dan, KG6LJN checking exam results

ACS November 2004 Hospital Drill

Dick, KF6FZM taking a message

VOMARC's 2003 Christmas Party

VOMARC President Jim, K6UUW awarding Eileen, KG6QNT an ARRL 2003 Handbook as a prize for the annual ticket draw.

Sonoma Valley ACS Unit Leader Ken, N6KM awarding Jan, AE6FQ a check for $100 as a prize for VOMARC's annual ticket draw.

VOMARC Vice President George, K6ITE, Larry, and Joan, W6WXU

2003 Field Day

Dick Hanna, KF6FZM and Kermit Parker, W6JFN working 20 meters.

    The gang packing up the Club's 20 meter beam on its trailer.

VOMARC's 2002 Christmas Party

Randy, AA6GV receives an award for maintaining his 2 meter repeater for The Sonoma Valley Auxiliary Communications Service.

Tom Sehabiaque, W6KTT and Ashley Gravatt, KG6LJP are the oldest and youngest members attending the party.              

                The New VOMARC officers for 2003

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VOMARC's TRAVEL TRAILER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

Darrel Jones, WD6BOR; Jim Hill K6UUW; Kermit Parker, W6JFN; and John Masters, KD6KVZ are adding the tower components to the club's trailer for future field days and other events.

A K2IYQ QRP TOOTHBRUSH PADDLE

Steve Todd, K2IYQ built a paddle for his QRP rig using parts from his old SonicCare toothbrush head.  He got the idea from someone at the PACIFICON 2002 meeting.

PACIFICON 2002 REPORT

 As you can see, VOMARC was well represented at Pacificon by the VOMARC Building Contest crew. 

The event was a Norcal QRP Club sponsored building contest in which each team was given a 20 meter CW transceiver radio kit and enclosure at the beginning of the evening, and had to build, test and exchange a message with a control operator. The winner was the team that completed their radio and made the contact first. 

The VOMARC team split into very specialized tasks, with Steve, K2IYQ doing the soldering, Jim, K6UUW, and Mike, WB6TMH, sorting parts and prepping the enclosure and connectors, and Darrel, WD6BOR, handing parts to Steve and generally goofing off. 

The winning team was made up of a bunch of ringers who had built the kit before, and probably had a finished circuit board up their sleeves. That could just be jealousy speaking, since the VOMARC came in a close third out of a field of five teams. 

There was an amazing amount of talent at work in the room, with all the hot soldering irons and fevered brains raising the room temperature at least ten degrees. Most of the projects were successfully completed in a little over an hour. 

As usual, a great time was had by all!

FLYING ANTENNAS

On Sunday Sept 9 eight members and a guest activated W6AJF at the Sonoma Kite Festival. What a blast flying antennas on a kite and working at least 8 states in the course of an afternoon.  For a rig, we used an IC-706 running 100 Watts from one of the batteries that HSC had donated to the club for field day. It had been charged using the club Solar Panel that we also had on display charging an auto battery. This worked out really well and the battery lasted the entire time easily.

Our membership turnout was GREAT. Mike, WB6TMH, George, K6ITE, Dan, KG6LJN, Kermit, W6JFN, Jan, AE6FQ and his guest Paul London, Steve, K2IYQ, Jim, K6UUW and John, W6TWQ.

About 4:30 we decided to try to fly the Full Wave 20 meter loop.

Our signal reports were hitting 59 and 59+ from stations in California, Oklahoma, Idaho, Minnesota, South Dakota, Whitby Island, Washington, and for our last contact, a mobile station in Port Angeles, Washington. We also worked a Route 66 Special event station and a county hunter in North Dakota.

Also, George, K6ITE successfully flew the camera kite supplied by Ron Leal at VOM.COM. More work to get it higher and stable but we proved that it would work.

2002 Liberty Ride

Jan, K9OOU monitoring the SAG wagons using APRS.

Ken N6KM operating as Control Officer in the County's Emergency Communication Trailer