May 14th is not only the next Electronics Flea Market, but the one that PAARA operates as our primary fundraiser.

Your help is needed to help make this successful! We need people to help set up, sell food, and clean up at the end.

We also need you to help spread the word, to make sure the turnout of vendors and visitors is as large as possible.

More details will follow.

Neil Hays, W6FOG will share with us his fascinating ham radio operations on the high seas, operating maritime mobile from his 32-foot Westsail 42 Cutter, with 11 Icom radios and a good dozen antennas, ranging from inverted Vees to 1.2GHz and 2.4GHz antennas on a rotator at the top of the mast.
Neil has operated just about every ham band and mode while underway, including HF, (160m with a full-size antenna using a kite and a towed kayak!), packet, VHF, UHF, microwave, satellite, and APRS.

This summer, Neil will set sail for the Caribbean in this amazing floating ham shack, to begin a 30-island DXpedition that he has been planning since he was 15. Don’t miss this chance to learn about what surely will become a famous trip, and find out how you might be able to participate!

First licensed in 1959 at the tender age of 9, Neil served 2 years in Vietnam as an Army MARS officer, where he handled about 38,000 phone patch calls, and also provided MARSgrams over packet during the first Gulf War.

The PAARA Field Day Planning committee will have its next meeting on Saturday, April 16, at the PAARA trailer in Menlo Park, starting at 10:00am.

Stay tuned for directions, or use N6NFI as the talk-in frequency that morning.