Next NCCC Meeting Guests are always welcome at the NCCC! Please join us. Using Ferrites to Suppress RFI To and From Ham Gear Jim Brown, K9YC This presentation will focus on the fundamental mechanisms that couple RF into consumer equipment and from consumer equipment into ham stations.  Ferrite chokes, properly used, can greatly reduce that current, thus suppressing the interference. Dinner:  Pizza & Soft Drinks, $3/slice.  RSVP with K6EU by Sunday, 11 June.  PayPal is great, but you may prefer to pay at the door given the per-slice arrangement. ncccpay@contesting.com (Note that PayPal payments to the NCCC cannot be credit card funded.  Please move funds into your PayPal account or use the "eCheck" option or set the funding source to be a bank account, rather than credit card.)

Date: Monday, 12 June 2006
Time: 6:00pm schmooze, 6:30pm dinner, 7:00pm program
Location: 

TIBCO Software Incorporated - Building 2
3301 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA  94304
(650) 846-1000

From 101

Take the Oregon Expressway exit south (actually, southwest), for a couple miles, crossing El Camino where it becomes Page Mill Road.  Continue up the hill to Foothill Expressway which is about the 4th stop light.  Turn left on Foothill and then left again on Hillview Avenue, the first exit.   TIBCO is on the right about a half-block from Foothill.

From 280

Take the Page Mill Road exit north (actually northeast), for a couple miles, turning right on Foothill Expressway.  Turn left on Hillview Avenue at the first exit and TIBCO is on the right about a half-block from Foothill.

Tentative schedule of future meetings:

• 12 June: Technical Topic, Annual Budget

• 22 July (Saturday): Annual joint MLDXCC/NCCC meeting in Jackson

• 14 August 2006: CQP Preparation

• 11 September 2006: Finalize CQP, SS Preparation at China Wok in Vallejo

• 9 October 2006: Finalize SS Plans

• 13 November 2006: SS War Stories, P49X RTTY Round-Up

• 11 December 2006: Holiday Dinner

• 8 January 2007: Technical Topic

• 12 February 2007: WPX Preparation

• 12 March 2007: Awards Dinner

• 9 April: Elections

Meetings are usually the second Monday of the month. Meeting locations change from month-to-month to make it more convenient for members in various parts of our territory to attend.  The locations and program topics listed above are a tentative projection.  Always consult this page or the JUG for the final information on the next meeting.

Please contact K6CTA or K6SRZ with any suggestions for programs you would like to see, or provide!  Thanks.

Past Meetings

2006

• 8 May: 2006-2007 Plan (N6BV) , K7C DXpedition (AD6E, K6SRZ, NI6T)

• 10 April: Noise Elimination, K2RD

• 13 March: Annual Awards Dinner

2005

• 10January: K2 as a Contesting Radio

• 7 February: Our Secret Weapons

• 14 March: Awards Dinner

• 18 April: Elections, YagiStress, Antenna Panel

• 8 May: Remote Station Control

• 23 July: Joint MLDXCC meeting, A71AJ

• 13 June: Multi-Op Contesting, N7MH

• 8 August: 2005 - The 40th Running of CQP

• 12 September 2005: Getting Prepared for SS

  • N6BV: SS Propagation

  • WX5S: SS HMO

  • N6RO: SS Tips

• 10 October 3005: Getting MORE Prepared for SS!

  • N6BV: SS Propagation (enhanced)

  • N6RO: SS Tips

2004

• 10 May: Teamwork

• 14 June: 2003 SS Lessons Learned, 2004 Budget

• 24 July: T33C DXpedition (joint MLDXCC meeting)

• 9 August: CQP

• 13 September: 2004 SS Strategy

• 18 October: 2004 SS Tactics

• 8 November: Orion

• 13 December: Holiday Party

  • Pileup WAV file and log

  • Pictures courtesy K1IR:

             

Meeting Locations

• Agilent (used to be Hewlett-Packard) - Building 50, Santa Clara

• By-Th-Bucket, Santa Clara

• Chef Wang's, Los Altos

• Chevys Fresh Mex, Foster City

• Christy Street Deli, Fremont

• Duke of Edinburgh, Cupertino (OK, so this pub isn't exactly a meeting place, but it is a meeting-after-the-meeting place. NCCC'ers are frequently found sampling the brews here after HP Building 50 meetings.)

• HP - Building 20A, Palo Alto

• HP - Building 36, Mountain View

• IHOP (International House of Pancakes), Martinez

• Mountain Mike's Pizza, Belmont

• Pleasanton Hotel, Pleasanton

• Red Morton Community Center, Redwood City

• Senior Center, Jackson

• South Beach Yacht Club, San Francisco

• Old Spaghetti Factory, Oakland

• TIBCO, Palo Alto

• Tied House - Mountain View

• Tied House - San Jose

• Tularik, Inc. - South San Francisco

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