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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 profile,
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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- International Space Station On-The-Air with ARISS
- July looks to be a busy month for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS). On Friday, July 4, members of the Austin Amateur Radio Club (AARC) facilitated a successful ARISS contact between the International Space Station (ISS) and Cub Scout Pack #304 and Blackland Prairie Elementary School in Round Rock, Texas. Before an audience of 100, 10 Cub Scouts asked nearly 20 questions of Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ. Chamitoff launched into space on May 31 on the space shuttle Discovery and [...]
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- Kansas Teen Named 2008 Young Ham of the Year
- Emily Stewart, KC0PTL, a 17 year old from Leavenworth, Kansas, has been named the 2008 Young Ham of the Year (YHOTY), announced YHOTY Award Administrator Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Emily was selected based on her commitment to Amateur Radio, along with leadership, outreach, and her technical and public service achievements of the Amateur Radio Service to others. She will receive her award as part of the Huntsville Hamfest. More than two dozen young people were nominated for this award, now in its [...]
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- Get Ready for the IARU HF World Championship
- HF Contesting usually hits a dry spell during the summer months, but the weekend of July 12-13 brings a summer bright spot for HF contesters -- the IARU HF World Championship.
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- Roof, Attic and Basement (Repeat)
- It was an absolutely beautiful Memorial Day weekend. No rain, not too hot and not too cold. It was perfect for picnicking, yard work, washing your car -- whatever you wanted to do. The soggy days had departed just in time for a much-deserved and much-needed three-day weekend. Or so the weather forecast said.
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- Riley Hollingsworth to Retire July 3: The End of an Era
- On Thursday, July 3, Special Counsel for the Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC's Enforcement Bureau Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH -- the man who has come to embody Amateur Radio Enforcement - will say goodbye to the FCC as he retires and begins his life as a private citizen. In May, Hollingsworth announced he would definitely retire; he had contemplated retiring in January 2008, but cited "several issues on the table that I want[ed] to continue to work through with the amateur community." [...]
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- ARRL Tells Red Cross of Remaining Background Check Policy Concerns
- ARRL President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, has written to Armond T. Mascelli, Vice President for Domestic Disaster response for the American Red Cross (ARC) to identify the ARRL's remaining concerns over the background check policy for ARC partners. Harrison emphasized that the commencement of negotiation of a replacement Statement of Understanding (SOU) between the two organizations should not be further delayed while these concerns are resolved and that he looked forward to signing a new SOU once [...]
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- US Government Recalls RadioShack Power Supplies
- On July 2, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with RadioShack, announced a voluntary recall of 13.8 V dc power supplies. The CPSC said that consumers should stop using these power supplies immediately, as the "power supplies are wired incorrectly, posing electrocution and fire hazards." No injuries have been reported in conjunction with the power supplies that were sold in RadioShack stores nationwide from October 2004-January 2008 for between $50 and $85. [...]
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- ARRL Presence at HAM RADIO 2008 in Friedrichshafen
- HAM RADIO 2008, the 33rd International Exhibition for Radio Amateurs in Friedrichshafen, Germany, was held June 27-29. This annual event, billed as Europe's biggest hamfest, focused this year on the radio amateur satellite program and included many programs and activities for youth. The event drew more than 17,000 visitors from over 30 countries. The fourth annual Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC) preceded the event. A team representing ARRL attended, greeting [...]
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- ARRL Audio News: Jul 3, 2008; Vol 27 Number 26
- ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; ARRL Tells Red Cross of Remaining Background Check Policy Concerns; An Era Comes To a Close as Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Retires; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; Philadelphia Area Hams Nail Rogue Radio Signals; Get Ready for the IARU HF World Championship Next Weekend; Check Out the July/August NCJ; ARRL Audio News--News Briefs--CLOSE
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