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Meeting Presentations are On-Line
The meeting presentations can be accessed on the website. Click on the "About Us" tab and then "VVRC Meeting Presentations."
They are sorted by date (yearmonth).
ARRL 2026 Field Day was the weekend of June 26-28 2026. This year we again used the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo.
Check the photos of this year's VVRC Field Day event >>
` 2026 Field Day Photos
Pictures of all the Field Day events, including 2025, can be found >> HERE
2026 VVRC Holiday Dinner coming December 10th.
This year our Holiday Dinner will be at 128 Hall and Kitchen, 1123 Grant Ave, Winters CA.
We will start at 6:00PM on Thursday, December 10th, 2026.
Our dinner is buffet style the main dishes are Tri-Tip and BBQ Chicken or a Vegetarian option with two sides and a Green Salad.
The dinner also includes soft drinks.
We hope some members attending would consider bringing a desert, either home made or store bought. There is no bar, but you are free to bring your own alcoholic beverages to drink. The cost is $30 per person.
Vegetarian meals are optional, please indicate how many Meat meals and Vegetarian Meals are requested.
Deadline for Reservations is December 7th!!"
You can register via our application
HERE
This year we will be having door prizes which is generously sponsored by Radioddity, {Click on the logo to go to their web site)
Bioenno Power (Click on the logo to go to their web site)
and BTech Radio (Click on the logo to go to their web site)
All the club newsletters, "The Repeater," are accessible on our web site.
You will access them by clicking on "About US" then "VVRC Newsletters."
(Note, there was a gap in publication of the newsletter from May 2017 until January of 2024)
Along with the Newsletters, you can also access Club Meeting Presentations,
Pictures and More Downloadable Documents under the "Interesting Items" tab.
This includes photos from the 2023 Holiday Dinner and 2024 Field Day.
Weekly Cow Town Call In
The VVRC has initiated a new weekly rag chew session on our club repeater, 145.470.
This is a chance for members and non-members to just chat about whatever topic is of interest.
No restrictions, but keep it civil.
We meet every Thursday moring at 10:30 AM LT. Bryan, KBØA, will moderate, but it is pretty freeform.
Join us on Thursday!
In-Person Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month (except December) at the Nut Tree Airport at 7:00 PM, unless posted otherwise. See the Meetings & Events Page.
Nut Tree Airport 301 Airport Rd., Vacaville. The December meeting is our Holiday dinner and is typically held at a different time and location.
We hold a net every Tuesday at 2000 local time on the
club's repeater (W6VVR)
If you would like to join the VVRC or renew you membership this is the link to an Application Form
Browse our web site for more information about the club and what it has to offer.
If you have any questions, please email us at
The Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF), based here in the Bay
Area, has posted a complete copy of the book “Where Do We Go Next”
by Martti Laine, OH2BH, on their website. You can download it from this
page:
Where Do We Go Next
The book provides lots of tips on how to improve your DX success rate and what it takes to
make a successful DXpedition.
We've gotten a number of new members into the club, some of which are new Hams as well. The PAPA System, Southern California's Premier
Repeater System operator, has put together a guide to being a "Smooth Operator." You can read the information with this link:
PAPA Smooth Operator
