Victor Valley

Amateur Radio Club

K6QWR

Apple Valley, California U.S.A.

Members of ARRL since 1957

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The Spectrum newsletter is now Quarterly

A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph

LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution's celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane apparatus as he prepared to demonstrate an emerging technological wonder: ...

Yet before the demonstration could begin, the apparatus in the lecture theatre began to tap out a message. At first, it spelled out just one word repeated over and over. Then it changed into a facetious poem accusing Marconi of "diddling the public". Their demonstration had been hacked - and this was more than 100 years before the mischief playing out on the internet today. Who was the Royal Institution hacker? How did the cheeky messages get there? And why?

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Victor Valley Amateur Radio Club (VVARC), established in 1956, now celebrates fifty-five years of Amateur Radio service in the high, Mojave Desert. Our membership is a diverse group of individuals who gather to educate, communicate, and participate. If you have any interest in amateur radio, come celebrate with the most friendly, iconic, historic club in the High Desert - the VVARC. We want to see you there!

Our General club meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. {except August}
at the Lewis Center for Educational Research, 17500 Mana Road, Apple Valley.



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Our Club Board meetings are held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Johnnie D's {except August}
19250 Bear Valley Road, Apple Valley. All club members are welcome to attend



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An Elmer is kind of like a mentor for amateur radio operators. As new operators, we need the experience, knowledge, and guidance passed on to us by those that have been practicing for some time. Thank you to those members that have stepped forward and volunteered to help members with questions. Feel free to contact anyone on our ELMER list when you have questions.

Name / Email	Phone Number	City	Call Sign	Specialty
Bill Baumruck k6gz@juno.com	(760) 947-2667	Hesperia	K6GZ	HF/VHF
Dave Deards radiogramp@me.com	(760) 947-2402	Hesperia	KZ6C was:KI6HVI	Home Brew/Antennas
Dick Stephan bdinhighdesert @yahoo.com	(760) 955-1609	Victorville	KI6IXL	Batteries / WOUXUN Radios / Solar Power

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