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Welcome to the
Foothills
Amateur
Radio
Society
FARS is an amateur radio club for the southern San Francisco
Peninsula area in California serving residents of Los Altos,
Palo Alto, Mountain View, and other nearby communities.
Our regular monthly meetings are held
typically on the fourth Friday of the month at
Covington School in Los Altos.
Our meetings are free and open to
the public.
Don't miss out on our monthly
Amateur Radio Technology Days
hosted by FARS at the
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Members and registered users may login
to the web site to update their profiles,
sign up for (or renew) membership,
or create/modify a public biography.
Members may also search
the club roster to contact other members.
Not a member, then register online,
or sign-up at one of our meetings.
Membership in the Foothills
Amateur Radio Society is open to any
person interested in amateur radio who agrees to abide by the Bylaws
and pay the annual dues ($20). Membership in the club includes
our monthly newsletter you can receive by US postal mail or email.
FARS is the sponsor for one of the Electronics
Flea Markets at De Anza College during each year.
Read our newsletter
on line or join our email list.
Many club members are active in amateur emergency communications and
civic support activities.
We have a number of useful articles covering
Smith Charts, Antenna Impedance Models, Digital Keyboard Modes, etc.
Here are copies of the FARS Bylaws
and Articles of Incorporation.
Web Service donated by
DeLong
Consulting.
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- Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK)
- Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia in December 1990 and STS-67 on the Endeavour in March 1995. These two missions, ASTRO-1 and ASTRO-2 respectively, carried out ultraviolet and x-ray astronomical observations, logging more than 614 hours and 10.6 million miles in space. Parise was one of the first astronomers to operate [...]
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- Leaving on a Jet Plane to Dayton Hamvention®
- "As the song says, 'All our bags are packed and we're ready to go' -- well, almost," said ARRL Hamvention Coordinator Katie Breen, W1KRB. "The ARRL EXPO area is packed up into seven shipping skids and they are in a truck on their way to Dayton. We here at headquarters are not only breathing a huge sigh of relief, but many of us are still wrapping up our individual final details." The Dayton Hamvention® will run from May 16-18 at Hara Arena, just outside Dayton, Ohio.
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- The K7RA Solar Update
- Again this week, we saw a new, but brief sunspot, sunspot 993. Judging from the polarity of the spot, it looks to be from new Solar Cycle 24; this spot was south of the solar equator, so it has the same polarity as any Cycle 23 spot that was north of the equator. After two days it was gone, not from drifting over the edge of the visible solar disk -- it just disappeared.
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- FCC Looks to Raise Vanity Call Sign Fees
- The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM) on May 8 seeking to raise fees for Amateur Radio vanity call signs. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $11.70 and is good for 10 years; the new fee, if the FCC plan goes through, will go up to $12.30 for 10 years, an increase of $.60. The FCC is authorized by the Communications Act of 1934 (as amended) to collect vanity call sign fees to recover the costs associated with that program. The vanity call sign regulatory fee is [...]
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- Colorado Group Receives D-STAR Equipment
- The Colorado Council of Amateur Radio Clubs (CCARC) recently teamed up with Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) in Denver to donate a 2 meter, 70 cm and 23 cm D-STAR system stack. According to ARRL Colorado Section Manager and CCARC Board Member Jeff Ryan, K0RM, the two groups hit upon the idea of issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) to Colorado radio amateurs. "The RFP required the D-STAR systems to be installed and maintained on-the-air for five years, after which the winning group would retain ownership [...]
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- FCC Denies Two Amateur Radio Petitions for Rulemaking
- In two separate decisions released today, the Federal Communications Commission denied two Petitions for Rulemaking (PRM) having to do with Amateur Radio. These two PRMs, one filed by Mark Miller, N5RFX, of Arlington, Texas, concerning digital spectrum issues, and the other filed jointly by Ken Chafin, W6CPA, of La Crescenta, California, and Leon Brown, KC6JAR, of Los Angeles, California, concerning additional spectrum for more repeaters, including digital systems. Miller's PRM was assigned [...]
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- Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test to Be Conducted May 10
- The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 58th anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD). Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May -- May 17 in 2008 -- the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted on May 10 to prevent conflict with the Dayton Hamvention®, scheduled for May 16-18.
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- New NASA Tool Allows Amateurs to Explore the Ionosphere from the Inside
- Last week at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, NASA released a 4D live model of the Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that is required is an Internet connection and a free copy of Google Earth. NASA calls the ionosphere the "last wisp of Earth's atmosphere that astronauts leave behind when they enter space. The realm of the ionosphere stretches from 50 to 500 miles above [...]
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- History Channel Show to Feature Nikola Tesla
- Modern Marvels, a series on The History Channel, will feature electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla in an episode scheduled to air May 14. Helping out with the program was Bob "Loby" Lobenstein, WA2AXZ; Lobenstein is General Superintendent, Power Operations for New York City's subway system. "We did 8 hours of taping interviews at my 1904 power substation," Lobenstein said. "In addition to the action scenes of me throwing the 100 year old switches and demonstrating the use of power, I did a 'Mr [...]
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- ARRL Audio News: May 9, 2008; Vol 27 Number 18
- ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; Leaving on a Jet Plane to Dayton Hamvention; Look for the June Issue of QST in Your Mailbox; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; FCC Denies Two Amateur Radio Petitions for Rulemaking; Veteran Wireless Operators Association Honors Two Hams; New NASA Tool Allows Exploration of Ionosphere from Inside; ARRL Audio News--News Briefs--CLOSE
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