Sierra Signals February, 2015

ierra Signals SierraSSignals P.O. Box 6421 Auburn, CA 95604

At The Key of SFARC:

February 2015

PRESIDENT Tyghe Richardson, KD6MLH tyghe@tjrauctions.com

REPEATERS 145.430 (-0.6 MHz/PL 162.2) 440.575 (+5.0 MHz/PL 162.2) 223.860 (-1.6 MHz/PL 110.9)

VICE PRESIDENT Bob Brodovsky, K6UDA k6uda@att.net

CLUB NET Thursdays, 7:30PM, W6EK/R 145.430

SECRETARY Bruce Anderson, K6BAA anderson51@wavecable.com

CLUB MEETINGS Second Friday of the month, 7:30PM at the Auburn City Hall, 1215 Lincoln Way, Auburn CA

TREASURER Richard Kuepper, WA6RWS rkuepper@surewest.net DIRECTORS Birton Gilbert, N6UG Robert Bell, W6RBL Jim Jupin, WA8MPA FIELD DAY CHAIRMAN Mark Graybill, W8BIT REPORTERS Satellites: Greg, KO6TH History: Gary, KQ6RT Misc Radio: Fred, K6DGW Sunshine: Richard, WA6RWS rkuepper@surewest.net

CLUB BREAKFAST Last Sat of the month at Mel’s Diner 1730 Grass Valley Hwy, Auburn 7:30AM NET CONTROL OPS Dave Jenkins, WB6RBE Norm Medland, W6AFR Bob Brodovsky, K6UDA Al Martin, NI2U NEWSLETTER EDITOR Barbara Anderson, W6EVA 916.624.1343 anderson51@wavecable.com

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Calendar of Events February 13th: Club Meeting February 14th: Valentine’s Day February 16th: President’s Day February 28th: Club Breakfast March 14th: SFARC Swap Meet

WEBMASTER & ARRL PIO: Carl A Schultz, WF6J

Inside this issue:  From the Mic  Our First Ham Fest/Swap Meet  Volunteers Needed  Miscellaneous Radio – Who Invented the Transistor?  Board & General Minutes

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From the Mic

By Tyghe Richardson – KD6MLH, President

As we start another year and get rolling with all the events‌we need help!! I have been more involved for several years and have started to notice that the same people are volunteering each year and for several committees. I am of course the president and currently on two committees, and both of these need more help. These committees are the big ones: the new swap meet and field day 2015.

Field day is in much the same boat as the swap; we have a very good idea of what is going to happen and thanks to Mark and Bob we have an excellent layout and a lot of good ideas. The committee only has a few roles to fill and we need a new face to do that. I hope to see some new faces at the next field day meeting.

With a club as big as this one we should not have a problem getting volunteers for all the jobs, and they should not be the same people all the time. I need more committee chairs to step forward for this year because we need all the people we can get. Some of the committees are very easy to organize and require very little effort. I don't want my columns to turn into asking for help over and over again. I encourage you to give me a call, send me an email, or get me on the radio; do whatever you need but let me know you are up for a little responsibility in the club and are willing to help. I will talk to you soon.

73’s KD6MLH

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Hi everyone, K6UDA here with an important announcement. In just over a month SFARC is undertaking probably the biggest event in the history of the world. Our first Ham Fest/Swap Meet.

In order to make this event a success and have a second annual one, we need everyone to pitch in and help. Please email me and tell me that you can volunteer and what you want to do. We need people to setup, to monitor parking, act as vendor police, security, handle the drawing ticket sales, talk in ops, PA announcement ops, PR people (everyone should do that), a clean-up crew, and probably a few other assignments I don't even know exist yet.

I would much rather have twice as many workers as not enough. That way it splits the work load and we’re in and out faster; it also shows other clubs that we are an army. If you’re new to the club, this is a great way to get to know the other members.

If (when) you email me and tell me that you can volunteer, please let me know if you can supply yourself a safety vest (for ID), a flashlight, and an HT. At the very least, you need to wear your club badge for ID. Also let me know what time you can arrive and how long you can stay. At the next club meeting I’ll post a signup sheet. I’m going to ask everyone in the club to go to the w6ek.org website and download the event flyer and print out 5 copies. Post those copies at some public place to get the word out. Also, take one to any other ham clubs or nets you participate in. There will be a club table at the SWAP, so bring anything you want to sell and you can use the table for free. Club members can also rent a space for only $5.00 (advance reservations required) if you want to set up your own area. One more thing - Jeff, AK6OK is providing the grand prize for the drawing. It’ll most likely be valued at over $200.00 so bring money for the drawings.

Together, I’m sure we can make this the premier Hamfest in the Sacramento/Placer area. Mark your calendars for: March 14th, 2015, 0600 to Noon for us, and 0700 to 1100 for the public.

See you there.

73, Bob K6UDA (916)871-0726 K6UDA@att.net

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED THIS YEAR (2015) The club is rapidly acquiring a reputation for providing dependable communications support for charity events.

We’ve been supporting the MS walks from at least 2002 which was my first one. We’ve now done three Cystic Fibrosis bike rides in the Newcastle area and now we are being asked to support our third Diabetes bike ride in Rocklin.Consequently I am asking for volunteers for the following events: Sunday April 26, 2015: MS Walk in Folsom - starts about 0700 and is done by 1200 Saturday/Sunday May 2 & 3, 2015: Enduro near Georgetown from 0700 until about 1500 Saturday May 30, 2015: Tour de Cure (Diabetes) in Rocklin - starts 0630 and ends by 1700 Saturday October 10, 2015: Cystic Fibrosis bike ride in the Newcastle area - starts about 0800 and is over by 1300 We provide radio support for the start/finish line, each rest stop, and the SAG wagons (The mobile vans that patrol the routes and assist riders in need). In the past we have found that it is best to have 2 people at each station, except the SAG wagons. The 2nd person does not have to be a HAM, but it helps. Each operator needs to supply the radio equipment for the station assigned. For the SAGs this means usually a dual band HT and a mag mount antenna.

This is a perfect opportunity for using your radio for more than listening to the Thursday night net. I highly recommend that any new HAM volunteer for at least one event. You would be paired with an experienced person who will show you the “ropes” about volunteering. New hams do not need to bring a radio with them.

We also get asked to support the California Enduro Riders Association events which take place in the El Dorado National Forest near Georgetown. These are usually in the spring and in the fall and are an all-day event in the woods. Everyone who has done them says they are great fun and a tremendous learning experience. The Club has supported this event since at least 2002.

If you have any questions about volunteering or specific events, please contact me by email, phone, or corner me at a meeting.

George KG6LSB 530.888.0860 grsim@mindspring.com

To the Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club, Rocklin Police is hosting a Rocklin Public Safety Day at Strikes Unlimited, 5681 Lonetree Blvd in Rocklin, on April 25, 2015. We would like to have your club attend with a ham radio demo setup to display emergency communications.

Please contact Officer Mike Always at 916-838-6278, or e-mail him at Michael.Alway@rocklin.ca.us Thank you!

Matthew Diridoni, KC6RUO (SFARC Member)

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MISCELLANEOUS RADIO Who Invented the Transistor?

No time to read this? Short answer is “Bell Labs,” sort of … kinda … well, not totally. Actually, there are a host of “sort of's” in the story that brings us to solid state electronics at the beginning of the second half of the second decade of the 21st 1 century. It all makes for an interesting drama, much of which played out in the southern parts of the San Francisco Bay region, not really all that far from us. It's also appropriate to look at the drama right now because the official birthday of the transistor is 23 Dec 1947, 67 years ago last Dec, and Auburn has a connection to it all.

Up until perhaps the middle of the 19th century, many achievements and advances in our understanding of nature, science, and mathematics were the work of single individuals, working pretty much alone. Isaac Newton, James Maxwell, Fourier, Descartes, and many others certainly built on the body of knowledge laid down by those before them, but their contributions were, for the most part, formulated alone. That tended to fade in the latter 19 th century in favor of real-time collaboration. While Sam Morse gets the credit, his engineering and mechanical skills were severely lacking, a void filled by Alfred Vail. Alexander had his Watson, and Tom Edison had a lab full of skilled people to collaborate with. Bell Labs took this concept to new extremes.

Bell Labs [originally Volta Laboratory] ultimately became a research arm of AT&T, by then a regulated monopoly utility. They needed research into the aspects of telephony, but were highly constrained in the patent process and marketing and sale of their developments by virtue of their monopoly. Originally in Manhattan, Bell Labs moved to Murray Hill NJ around WW2 to a several hundred acre complex. The overriding mantra at the labs was collaboration between some of the smartest scientists and engineers of the time, and especially across traditional disciplines. The campus was built for collaboration with long halls connecting buildings to foster chance encounters and conversation, and common areas for impromptu conversations, discussions, and exchange of ideas. And out of this came the first solid state device capable of functioning as an amplifier. But, when people are involved, there's always a story.

The photo is a replica of the first point-contact transistor. In the 90's, Bell Labs spun off Lucent Technologies who assembled this. Rest assured, the original device did not look anywhere near this nice.2 The story really begins with two Bell scientists, Walter Brattain and William Shockley. They were shortly joined by John Bardeen. Shockley was the chief of the group, and spent quite a bit of his time doing “management things.”

Walter and John tinkered.

Their goal was to create an amplifier that didn't employ a vacuum tube, and their not-so-straight path to this involved germanium [a moderately rare element], and tiny wires that made contact with a piece of it, much like the crystal detectors made from galena [an ore of lead], in the early 20th century.

Walter and John made a good team. Walter was an outgoing person, social, good sense of humor, a good conversationalist, and skilled at turning ideas into “things.”

John was much more reserved, a thinker, quiet in social situations. As is often the case, they complimented each other, became good friends, and remained so until they died.

Shockley, on the other hand, while a gifted scientist, was nowhere near the genius he believed himself to be. He was not good at collaboration unless he was going to be the ultimate recipient of the Nobel Prize for the work [which indeed, he was, for physics, in 1956, shared with Walter and John 3]. He also had a streak of paranoia which only increased with time and made him very difficult to work with or for. Bell Labs filed for a number of patents on the various aspects of the pointcontact “transistor” as it was sometimes called. Shockley had earlier formulated a “field effect” theory to explain semiconductor behavior. While preparing the patent application the attorneys discovered a prior patent on that theory. No 1 2 3

Being a math dude, I count from zero so 2015 is the beginning of the second half.

The original of this photo is also available on Wikipedia.

Shockley never accepted that it was a shared prize, believing that he alone should have received it.

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The photo at right is fairly famous, John Bardeen [L] and Walter Brattain standing and William Shockley seated at the announcement of the “transistor.” What isn't obvious is that the desk, microscope, paraphernalia on the desk and the lab notebook under it are all Walter's. As they were setting up for a photo of the three, Shockley abruptly sat down at Walter's desk for the photo. Needless to say, his action further strained relations with Bardeen and Brattain, who both eventually abandoned Shockley.

Shockley returned to his “field effect theory” in secret [cross off collaboration ☺], and worked at developing a similar device based on the junctions of three differently doped semi-conductors. He shared none of this work with Walter or John, or for that matter with Bell Labs management.

Both John and Walter eventually left Bell Labs, mainly for academia. Shockley would follow after it became clear that his managers did not take kindly to his secrecy. John died of heart disease in 1991 at 82. Sadly, Walter died of Alzheimer’s Disease in 1987 at 85.

Shockley migrated to the Bay Area where he had grown up and where his mother lived, and decided to form Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories to develop and market his junction transistor. He ultimately found backing, became a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, and hired a number of scientists and engineers who would become founding luminaries of Silicon Valley. A number of them came from Bell Labs.

Things basically went downhill at Shockley Semiconductor Labs. Aside from his increasingly autocratic style which was alienating his staff, and growing 4 paranoia he became distracted by a 4-layer diode idea he had come up with. The products [junction transistors] the staff had come to his company to design, manufacture, and market were increasingly ignored as he demanded they work on the 4-layer diode project. And, as one might suspect, as marketing and improvements declined, so did revenue and of course, profits.5 Eventually, eight of his best people went to the CEO at Beckman hoping to convince him to move Shockley out. While it looked for a while like they might succeed, eventually they were told to “suck it up.” They left as a group6, followed by several more groups, and Shockley Semiconductor Labs faded into history. I've been to the site in Mt. View, the photo at left is from Wikipedia. I have one that I took, but I'm not much of a photographer and this one is much better. It was a produce market in 2005 when I was there.

Shockley went back to Stanford to teach. By this time, likely as a result of his paranoia, delusions of superiority as a human being, and deep insecurity from scoring only 120 on IQ tests, he had become involved in the eugenics movement, publishing widely that African Americans and other “races” and nationalities were inferior and should be discouraged from reproducing. His lectures at Stanford were marked by hecklers, and he finally faded into retirement. He died in 1989.

The Traitorous Eight obtained funding from Fairchild Camera and Instrument and became Fairchild Semiconductor. Texas 4 5 6

He had demanded that all submit to polygraph tests, and complete IQ tests,. No one did.

The 4-layer diode never became a product Shockly called them the “Traitorous Eight,” and assured them they'd never succeed at anything. The eight included Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts ☺

8 Instruments had been working on the concept of creating more than one device on a single chip of silicon, but two problems were fabricating the tiny sections of a single chip and all the interconnecting wires required. The Fairchild engineers came up with the idea of coating the chip with an oxide of silicon, cutting little windows for the elements of each component thus making fabrication much easier. The oxide layer is an insulator, and they soon realized they could “print” 7 the interconnecting wires in tiny copper traces on top of the oxide. At this point, a truly groundbreaking event took place.

The situation was a patent minefield, valuable only to lawyers, which would undoubtedly continue for years. Fairchild and TI met, decided to plow the likely legal costs back into their companies instead, cross-licensed their existing patents to each other, and agreed not to file patent infringement suits. With peace in Semiconductorland, research forged ahead in Silicon Valley and Texas. It was a time of massive development.

In the 60's, the NASA Apollo program to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth was perhaps the single largest techno-engineering effort in the country. The Apollo Guidance Computer, designed at MIT, would control all of the equipment on a mission, provide all of the navigation computations, and manage all of the communications with the Earth.

The Block II AGC [the manned missions] employed 32 K 16-bit words of magnetic read-only core memory for the program and static data, and 2K of read-write magnetic core memory for erasable storage. The entire computer logic consisted of 2,800 identical flat-pack dual 3-input NOR gates … fabricated by Fairchild. The photo to the right is six of the flatpacks, providing 12 NOR3's of the 5,600 total gates.

After about 8 years, the Traitorous Eight began to drift off. Moore and Noyce decided to found a little semiconductor operation, hoping to concentrate on actually building a computer CPU on a single chip. They called their little company Intel, and their first “microprocessor” was the Intel 4004 … a 4-bit computer-on-a-chip. It was met with modest success, ☺ and was quickly followed by an 8-bit 8008 and a succession of larger, faster ones and you know how that turned out. I'm writing this using an Intel microprocessor with 4 CPU's clocked at 2.3 GHz Jerry Sanders, Director of Marketing at Fairchild, and seven of his colleagues left to found another semiconductor company which they named American Micro Devices or AMD. AMD began with specific medium scale integration in decoders, shift registers, and then into semiconductor RAM. They also began cloning Intel microprocessors, and in the late 70's, in a reprise of TI-Fairchild, they cross-licensed patents including the microcode then being incorporated into Intel's products and agreed not to fight over patents. What a concept!

Altogether, over 60 technology companies were founded that could trace their roots to the Traitorous Eight. Hardly what William Shockley predicted when they rode away from Shockley Semiconductor Labs.☺ The Auburn Connection? Read the plaque at the left and compare it to the sign above in front of the produce market, and see if you can spot the primary difference between two markers.

A few years ago, news came to Auburn that the Shockley estate had bequeathed 25 or so acres of land to the Auburn Recreation District for ultimate development into a park. The gift included $50,000 [I think] for maintenance and upkeep, and the requirement that it be known as a gift from Shockley and his wife.

This should have been minor good news in Auburn, however the Auburn Journal was filled with irate letters urging that the gift be refused on the basis of his racist later life. Most of those writing were fairly new to the area.

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Metal Oxide Semiconductor, the “MOS” in CMOS, MOSFET, and others.

9 For as long as we have lived here [38 years], Shockley Rd has headed up the ridge from Auburn Ravine Rd above Dairy Rd, and ultimately intersected Luther Rd just west of the tracks. You can see the land gift near the top on the right, currently wooded and undeveloped. Shockley Ct and Shockley Ln are dead-end roads off of the main one. One wonders how, with three roads in town already named after him, anyone could have been upset about the land gift … but they were.

I was seeing Gordon Ainsleigh as my chiropractor at the time, and Gordy happened to be on the ARD Board [still is]. It turns out that giving the land back wasn't really possible, the gift was the last distribution from the estate and the executor was folding the trust … no one to give it back to. In a truly rare flash of wisdom for group of politicians, ARD registered the sale with the County Recorder exactly as required in the will where it is buried in the database of Placer County deeds. There are no plans right now to develop the land into a park, but if there ever are, there will be no monument or sign to that effect.

And the difference in the signs above? Robert Noyce and Fairchild are credited on State Historical Landmark #1000. The Shockley Semiconductor sign is a sign, not a registered landmark, and does not include his name or anything to indicate he might have even been there. It's likely that, anticipating a Mt. View uprising similar to Auburn's, they just took the easy way out.

So who invented the transistor? From the above, you can probably see that this is a less than easy question to answer.

Walter Brattain and John Bardeen seem to be front runners as first inventors … at least of the point-contact variety, and William Shockley seems pretty far back in the pack for that. Shockley does get credit for the concept of junction transistors which have more or less supplanted the point-contacts. I built my Elecraft K2, and it does have a good complement of individual transistors, mainly in the RF sections, but the bulk of its functionality is in microprocessors with thousands of transistors I've never seen. We can thank Fairchild and Texas Instruments for that. And this computer runs on an Intel silicon device no one could ever have predicted at Bell Labs in the 50's.

Engineering collaboration is the modus operandi today [unless you're Apple ☺], perhaps that is the largest benefit to society of the semiconductor revolution, that collaboration has accelerated the progress of technology immensely.

Incidentally, Fairchild also entered the microcomputer business with their F8. My younger brother worked for Fairchild in the late 60's early 70's … on a team attempting to develop a calculator that would fit in your pocket using the F8. They sort of did, however TI and HP beat them to the market with a better product set, and my brother donated his Fairchild “F8 Formulator,” the F8 development/test bed, to the Computer History Museum in Mt. View not long ago.

73, Fred K6DGW

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES January 9, 2015

The SFARC Board meeting for January commenced at 1745 hours at the Sizzler restaurant back room in Auburn.

Roll Call: Re-elected President Tyghe-KD6MLH and all officers and Directors were present for the first meeting of the New Year, along with new Vice President Bob-K6UDA, Secretary Bruce-K6BAA, Director Birton-N6UG, returning Treasurer Richard-WA6RWS, returning Directors Robert-W6RBL and Jim-WA8MPA. Past Secretary Dennis-WU6X and Jim-N6MED attended as guests.

REPORTS and DISCUSSIONS President’s Report: Tyghe-KD6MLH started by stating all committee chair positions should be filled at tonight’s club meeting. Tyghe asked board members if they wanted any changes this New Year. Birton responded he would like to see repeater issues attended to.

VP Report: Bob-K6UDA welcomed everyone, reviewed the upcoming swap meet and discussed Tech-Ten

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presentation planning. Tyghe suggested streamlining the presentations and Bob suggested presenters should work as teams and an email list of presenters.

Secretary’s Report: Bruce-K6BAA had no report Treasurer’s Report: Richard-WA6RWS reported the clubs beginning balance last year was $ 7584.48 and the ending balance in December was $ 7548.56 with $ 818 dollars received in December from renewals. He explained the club expenditures utilizing the 2014 final report spreadsheet and proposed a budget of $ 3810 for 2015. Birton-N6UG motioned to approve, Robert-W6RBL seconded and the budget was approved. RichardWA6RWS discussed the new Certificate of Insurance (COI) for the club which covers club activities.

Repeater: Richard-WA6RWS had no report other than the repeater is working normally.

Directors: Birton-N6UG sought approval for SAR recruitment at the VE sessions. Bob-K6UDA said the recruitment was not in conflict as SAR was a public service organization. Jim-WA6MPA advised the clubs monthly meeting refreshment chair will be handled by Scott-K6SVW and Laura-K6LVW with Rich-AA6RS as back up. Robert-W6RBL advised George-KG6LSB will present at the club meeting, events needing volunteers.

Other Business: Bob-K6UDA reminded the board that as officers, we need to motivate more club members to volunteer for events. Dennis-WU6X suggested club officers should spend more time at the club meetings introducing themselves to visitors and new members.

Meeting adjourned at 1848 hours.

Submitted by Bruce Anderson – K6BAA, SFARC Secretary

GENERAL MEETING MINUTES January 9, 2015 The SFARC General meeting for January commenced at 1930 hours at the Auburn City Hall Rose Room, President Tyghe-KD6MLH presiding. All Officers and Directors were present. Tyghe led approximately 50 members and guests in a Pledge of Allegiance to the flag followed by an introduction of Officers, members and guests.

REPORTS: Past minutes: Tyghe called for approval of the minutes from November’s meeting as posted in the newsletter. A motion and 2nd to approve as posted, passed unanimously with no corrections. December’s minutes were actually a report of the Christmas Party and not “officially” posted for approval.

President’s Report: Tyghe briefly discussed the agenda and then called for Officers’ reports, but first congratulated Sharron Griffith-KK6RGV for obtaining her license. Sharron is the YL of club member Jim-KI6AZH and winner of the Christmas party’s dual band Alinco grand prize.

VP’s Report: Bob-K6UDA welcomed everyone and asked club members, especially those who are new hams, to volunteer for the club’s activities.

Secretary’s Report: Bruce-K6BAA asked guests and new members to pick up a Welcome letter at the break containing important information about the club, and discussed other information available on the Club’s Yahoo! Groups site at: (https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/w6ek/info).

Treasurer’s Report: Richard-WA6RWS reported the new budget passed for 2015 with full details available upon request.

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Sunshine Report: Richard-WA6RWS reported Dave Hund-N6SHD passed away after a vehicle accident on his way home from the Christmas Party.

Repeater: Richard-WA6RWS reported the 2m repeater is up and running with the 220 and 440 repeater issues getting addressed.

Satellite Report: Greg-KO6TH reported on current satellite/space station activities.

VE Report: Dave-NO6NO, reported VE testing results of (17) elements given with (5) new Techs, (3) new Generals and (4) new Extra class passing. Dave said the testing location will be relocating due to Raley’s remodeling. He also had club hats, patches and a Baofeng handy talkie for sale.

Drawing/Refreshments: George-WB6LSB reviewed items planned for the drawing, while Scott-K6SVW reported on refreshments for the break. Wendy-KK6HSK will back fill for Scott and Laura at the next club meeting February 13th.

OLD BUSINESS: Bob-K6UDA reported on the planned SFARC Swap meet March 14, 2015. Bob needs 5 people for the committee and at least 20 people to assist at the swap meet.

Field Day: Mark-W8BIT gave an update on Field Day 2015 planning and reported band captains are still needed.

Mark is planning for a Field Day dry run exercise (date to be determined).

NEW BUSINESS: Dave-N6NO asked approval for a check payment to the City of Auburn for the use of the Rose Room. A motion and 2nd to approve passed unanimously.

Opportunities to Volunteer: George-WB6LSB asked for club members to see him at the break for volunteer sign-ups for several upcoming events.

General Announcements: The Club Net meets every Thursday at 7:30pm; Board and General Meetings occur on the 2nd Friday, Board is held at Sizzler Restaurant in Auburn, and General meetings at 7:30pm at Auburn City Hall. The Club breakfast is held on the last Saturday at Mel’s Diner in Auburn; an Elmer Net is held on the first and third Wednesday night at 7:30pm on the 2m repeater. See www.w6ek.org for more information. Carl-WF6J is still looking for help or someone to assist or pick up the web master duties.

Tech-10 & Presentation: The Tech-10 was presented by Jeff-AK6OK who demonstrated his new 2 meter, 440, 220 and HF repeater system.

Submitted by Bruce Anderson – K6BAA, SFARC Secretary

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