pacificon.org Table

Activities: Auction | Campout Party | Digital Systems | DX & Contests | Emergency Communications | Field Day |

Holiday Banquet | Leap Day Net | Nets on MDARC Systems | Nets on Other Systems | Pacificon Table | Vehicles

If you are an mdarc.org member and can talk about our club we need your help Friday the 10th, Saturday the 11th and Sunday the 12th.

Will-Call and Registration get very busy and sometimes don't have time to talk about MDARC at length with interested attendees.

We host a table at Pacificon to give a space for attendees to ask about MDARC club activities, membership, exams and raffles at each general meeting of HRO Gift Certificates and home made pies. Attendees are welcome to participate with our members in nets-on-mdarc-systems and nets-on-other-systems.

MDARC was founded in 1947 by five people including Bud W6CX himself. This is our seventeenth Pacificon event at the San Ramon Marriott and 32nd time our club has sponsored the Pacific Division conference, first held in 1920 in San Francisco by the sfarc.org established in 1916 just after the ARRL was founded in 1914. We are proud to carry on these traditions.

We will show an introductory looping set of videos from the ARRL (slides and voice from arrl.org in US) and RSGB (Royal Society of Great Britain, video with kids from rsgb.org in UK).

The table hosts radios for Pacificon talk-in traffic on W6CX. Due to poor W6CX propagation inside the Marriot San Ramon we boost our signal with a cross band repeater. No call should go unanswered on our repeater during our amazing event.

In 2025 our expanded calendar including our club and regional clubs will have organized and supported approximately 42 Public Service events. Larry Loomer KI6LNB does an amazing job promoting, organizing and operating in many of these events. Public service events are a great way to use your license and help people. It's a lot of fun and we can always use more operators!

This year we should have five (5) events in October, hopefully none overlapping with pacificon.org.

Also of note, the LivermoreARK.org hosts public service events as well as the Swap Meet, T-Hunting and their a club table.

Email mdarc@pacificon.org and let us know what hours during the conference you are available to staff the table.