The San Diego DX Club
An ARRL Affiliated Club
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Gayle
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Ron Weaver, W6OM "Everyone is a DXer -- Even non-hams" |
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Ron is CEO of Systenomics, Inc., a software development company
and Chairman of the Board for Viper networks.
He has operated form around the world and is FO5VO, UA3OM, 5H3VO, W6OM/PY2, A35RW, a was a guest operator at BY1PK. He has also operated from France, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Romania, India and the United Kingdom.
He has earned DXCC Honor Roll status on CW and SSB, 7 Band DXCC, 4 Band WAZ, 5 Band WAC and 5 Band WAS among many other awards.
Ron has recently gravitated back to amplitude modulation and his pride and joy is an AM Bauer 707 commercial transmitter that, in another life, was the voice of 1690 AM -- Family Home Radio in Chico, California.
His vintage receivers are a cherry Collins 75A4 with a National NC-300 as back-up.
He is a graduate of UCLA with a degree in Clinical Psychology and a minor in French. He also holds Masters degrees earned in Paris in Psychology and French Literature.
Ron has been published in QST, CQ and Electric Radio. He is a business partner with FO5IW in a resort that they own on Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
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New Microphone Developments
at Heil Sound
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The latest generation of DSP-based transceivers
includes a wide array of microphone equalization capability. Heil Sound's new
HC-6 Articulated Dynamic Microphone Element has been crafted to bring out the
full range of audio possibilities available now at the operator's fingertips,
and Chip Margelli, K7JA, will describe the design philosophy that led to the
creation of the HC-6 and the new Pro set Elite boomset, and demonstrate--live--just
what the HC-6 can do for you on the air.
Whether you use a microphone to work DX, or brag to your buddies about the great
DX you just snagged on CW, you're sure to get your eyes and ears opened at the
October 27th meeting!
Chip Margelli, K7JA, has been licensed since 1963.
He is the Vice President for Amateur Sales and Marketing Manager at Heil Sound,
Ltd.
For over forty five years, Chip has been active in DXing and, especially, international
radiosport competition.
Among his accomplishments are thirteen first place finishes nationally in the ARRL November Sweepstakes, and a number of world-high or national wins in the CQ World-Wide DX Contest, ARRL DX Contest and CQ WPX contest.
His DXpeditioning activities include St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, the US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saipan, Micronesia, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Martinique and Barbados.
In 1984, Chip and his wife Janet KL7MF were invited by the Chinese Radio Sport Association to Beijing for operations from BY1PK and to help train the new Chinese operators during the early phases of the rebirth of amateur radio in China.
In 1989, Chip was the American representative in the Malyja-Vysotskij Island 4J1FS expedition.
In 1991, he was a member of the IARU Albania Project led by Martti Laine, OH2BH, which brought ZA1A on the air after decades of silence from Albania.
Chip and Janet visited Havana, Cuba in 1994 to document participation by members of the Federacion de Radioaficionados de Cuba in the ARRL June VHF QSO Party.
In May of 2008, Chip's legendary DX accomplishments
led him to be inducted into CQ Magazine's Amateur Radio Hall of Fame.
In May of 2005, Chip and partner Ken Miller K6CTW made an appearance
(watch it here) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC, competing
with (and defeating) the US champion Cell-phone text messenger in a message-completion
speed contest, CW vs. text messaging. His articles have been published in QST,
CQ and CQVHF.
Meetings are normally held the
fourth Wednesday of the month
(except the month of December)
at the
Sizzler Steak House
3755 Murphy Canyon Road, Suite S.
San Diego, CA 92123
| Social Hour: | 5:00 PM |
| Dinner: | 5:30 PM |
| Meeting: | 6:30 PM |
