Hello all! Please spread the news about these two events to your local radio nets and forward this email to anyone interested in attending! Thanks! Transmitter Hunt and Antenna Build Session on March 6th AND Amateur Radio License Testing Session on April 10th Details for both can be found at www.w6bhz.org and below this email. All the best, -Marcel Stieber, KI6QDJ* President 2009-2010 Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club 805-756-2737, www.w6bhz.org calpolyradioclub@gmail.com* *************************************************** From: http://www.homingin.com/calpoly0310.html Cal Poly SLO Radio-Orienteering and Antenna Building Saturday, March 6, 2010 [image: CPARC logo] <http://www.w6bhz.org/>This on-foot direction-finding session is co-sponsored by the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club (CPARC<http://www.w6bhz.org/>) and the Radio Microwave and Photonics Club (RMAP). It is open to ham operators and non-hams of all ages and takes place on the beautiful campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. Your hosts are Marcel Stieber KI6QDJ, the President of CPARC and Sam Vigil WA6NGH, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the university. [image: Measuring-tape beam]All you must have is a transceiver or scanner that covers the ham radio two-meter band. You can build your own direction-finding antenna and attenuator on the spot from kits if you aren't already equipped. Then try your hand at a 5-fox two-meter international-rules ARDF course of low to moderate difficulty. Experts will be on hand to help you with kitbuilding and they can teach you the basic techniques of on-foot direction-finding. Beginning about 9 AM, Marvin Johnston KE6HTS will conduct a clinic for building his kits for measuring-tape yagis ($15) and for 90 dB offset-type attenuators ($20) in room 20-116. For $45, you can get the yagi kit and an assembled/tested attenuator in a special housing that goes inside the boom of the yagi. (See photo at right). *If you register in advance by sending e-mail to marvin-at-west.net, he will have the kits reserved in your name waiting for you.* If you're not an electronic technician, don't worry because there will be plenty of experts to help you. We want you to succeed! *The transmitter hunt will start about 11 AM on a course set by Marvin.*There will be an orientation in room 20-128 and then a start by the hamshack tower. Hunters may start the course at any time until 1 PM. Course closes at 3 PM. A $5 donation to the club is requested for participation in the hunt. The course will include the main campus and Poly Canyon, so be sure to bring some water and wear suitable shoes. San Luis Obispo is on the central coast of California. From northbound Highway 101 downtown, take the Grand Avenue exit, turn left and go north uphill to the campus. From southbound Highway 101, take the Monterey Street exit, continue on the frontage road three blocks to Grand Avenue, then go right and uphill on Grand to the campus. See the map below. [image: Control flag]Look for event signs or an orange and white orienteering flag. (Example at left.) Park as close as you can to Engineering East Building 20 (the one under the ham radio tower). Parking permits are not required on Saturday but parking meters may be enforced, so be sure to check. More parking information is here<http://www.afd.calpoly.edu/police/services_parking.asp?pid=1&subid=2> . Talk-in is on the CPARC linked repeaters: 146.76(-) PL127.3 and 442.3(+) PL127.3. Both repeaters are located on the campus. Questions about the hunt? Send e-mail to calpolyradioclub@gmail.com *************************************************** From: http://w6bhz.org/Testing%20Session%20Flyer%202010_04_10.pdf [image: ?ui=2&view=att&th=126f9224bcd459d1&attid=0.1&disp=attd&realattid=ii_126f9224bcd459d1&zw]