About CVARC

The Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club (CVARC) is a 501(c)3 organization incorporated as a non-profit in the State of California, and established for the benefit of the amateur radio community. Our bylaws govern our activities and are open for all members and the public to read. CVARC is lead by a board of directors, and the club has a general meeting monthly at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday each month at the East County Sheriff Station (EVSS).

East County Sheriff's Station (ECSS)
2101 East Olsen Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

The easiest way to contact the appropriate board member is via email. Here is a list of the current board members and their contact information.

CVARC is designated as an ARRL special service club due to its extensive involvement in community service, emergency response, amateur radio training classes, and Volunteer Examiner (VE) amateur radio license exam program.

CVARC holds a meeting the third Thursday of each month at the East Valley Sheriff's Station, Thousand Oaks, CA. Meetings start at 7:30 PM with a pre-meeting technical assistance session for those who are interested. Meetings are open to the public and members are encouraged to bring their friends.

The CVARC email group, and access to the file and calendar areas can be joined by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CVARCDiscussion/ or by sending mail to CVARCDiscussion-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. To interact with the CVARCDiscussion web site, you will have to create a no-cost Yahoo account if you don't already have one.

At almost every monthly CVARC meeting, there is a presentation on a subject related to Amateur Radio. We have invited speakers from outside as well as from within the CVARC membership.

Below is a sampling of recent subjects.

APRS home-brew kit building on a budget
Ham Radio at 300 MPH - Streamliner Racing at Bonneville
Packet Radio
The Sun's Role in Amateur Communications
"Now as Then" - a look at military programs
Northrop B-2 Flying Wing Program
Field Day 2005 Operations Plan
Exact Time and Precise Time Measurment
Building a J-Pole Antenna - hands-on project
History and State of the Art in Communication Satellites
Mapping VHF/UHF Coverage Using Software
Architectures of Modern Synthesized Radio Transceivers
Hands-on Mobile/Handheld Tune-up Session
Batteries: Applications and Care of Different Battery Chemistries
Packet Radio and APRS
Ethernet
The ARRL and you - ARRL Southwest Division Director
Preparations for Field Day
Casual DXpeditioning
EchoLink
Ham Radio Outlet Equipment Demo Night
Technical Aspects of Motion Picture Sound Tracks
Internet Radio Link Project (IRLP)
Soldering Techniques, with practice session
Homebrewing
Radio Direction Finding
The History of Ham Radio
Emergency Preparedness
Ham Radio's role in the annual Rose Parade
Quantum Electrodynamics Devices for Digital Nanoelectronics
The Care, Feeding, and Use of an Oscilloscope

Note: The descriptions above are not the titles under which presentations were given. They have been edited for clarity. If you are interested in more details of past technical presentations, please check out the announcements in past newsletters.

Correpondence should be directed to:

Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club (CVARC)
P.O.Box 2093
Thousand Oaks, CA., 91358-2093.

CVARC  single membership is $25 a year. Family membership is $30 a year. If the single membership dues is paid for multiple years, the special rate is $20 per year.

A special $10 single membership level exists, which includes any new individual member, for the first year, who has just been licensed for the first time. It also includes any member who is a full-time student at the time the membership is begun or renewed. If each club member of a family qualifies for the $10 level, the dues is $10 per member, not to exceed the regular $30 family membership level.

Membership Application Form

CVARC promotes activities such as V.E. Sessions, Camp-outs, Novice/Technician classes and much more. Our club participates in Field Day, an annual event held by the ARRL in June, with the purpose to promote communications among ham radio operators. CVARC has ranked first place many times in the past few years, with months of preparation for the event.

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