Sun 2 Jan 2005
Les Vickery, W6AKR, passed away on Christmas Day, December 25/04. He was a long time PAARA member who lived a rather exciting life as a radio operator with Pan Am Airways. The family is planning a graveside service for Friday, January 7/05 at 1300 hrs at the Sky Lawn Memorial Park, located at the top of the hill on highway 92.
A memorial service will be held sometime later and his daughter Lee Ann at 408-529-6081 will advise us of the details.
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Tue 9 Nov 2004
David K. Rogers passed away unexpectedly Monday morning, November 8th. He had come down with viral menengitis on October 18th, but had appeared to be on the mend.
Please follow the link below to find the information on making contributions to his son Danny’s trust fund, if you wish.
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Thu 16 Sep 2004
Bruce, N6NT, who gave a lecture on building a house on Little Cayman island himself, including a ham shack, doesn’t yet know if his house survived hurricane Ivan, but here is his initial report.
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Sat 7 Aug 2004
A low-bandwidth video of the August meeting on BPL is now available in Windows Media format. Other versions in QuickTime will be posted soon.
Fri 16 Jul 2004
A Field Day 2004 photo album is now available. There are currently 81 pictures cherry-picked from about 500 that I have so far.
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Thu 24 Jun 2004
AT&T is constructing a BPL test in a Menlo Park neighborhood, serving about 300 homes. To track this threat to ham radio, there is a new section of the PAARA web site that will cover BPL.
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Mon 14 Jun 2004
AA6PA is looking for two Alliance U110 antenna rotator controllers, for use during Field Day.
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Microwave enthusiast club, meets in Sunnyvale on the first Thursday of every month.