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Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM in Room 202 of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building, except during the summer months when meetings may be held in the club shack at Site 530. 
The October 2007 edition of QST, the monthly publication of the American Radio Relay League, notes that September 21, 2007 was the sixtieth anniversary of the first amateur radio single side band transmission. The contact was made by W6YX and W0TQK in 1947. The mode was championed by Stanford University researcher and author Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr, W6QYT, but it was just one of his many accomplishments. During his career at Stanford (and later at Stanford Research Institute--SRI), Villard pioneered the concept and development of a program to design and build an over-the-horizon radar system to detect incoming military aircraft and high-altitude missiles. In addition, he demonstrated the feasibility of the "stealth aircraft" concept by using specially treated low-impedance surfaces. For those achievements he received the Department of Defense civilian Medal of Honor. Another accomplishment was the design of a simple, small high-frequency receiving antenna that aided in nulling out signals that jammed broadcasts of the Voice of America, the
BBC and others. While a student at Stanford, Villlard served as president of the Amateur Radio Club, and from the 1950s through the early 1980s he was the trustee of W6YX. For a picture of him (then W1DMV) operating W6YX in the late 1930's as student president of the club, see the history section. An ARRL member for many years, Villard was also a past scientific advisor to the Northern California DX Foundation. Prof. Villard died on January 7, 2004 at age 87. 
The weekend of June 23-24, 2007, brought members and visitors to Site 530 to participate in the annual ARRL Field Day. This year, over forty participants joined the activities at Site 530 in Class 4F (4 transmitters on emergency power from an established emergency operations center site, plus a VHF/UHF station, plus an additional "Get on the Air" station for inexperienced operators to make HF band contacts). At the end of the 24 hours, we had logged over 5,000 contacts and qualified for nearly all available bonus points. This year's Field Day also featured an evening cookout on Saturday evening and a post-activity picnic on Sunday morning.
It is with deep regret that we announce the sudden passing of Paul Flaherty N9FZX, a longtime member, and past president of W6YX. Paul received his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1994 for his work in computer architecture, digital radio communications, radio science and RF engineering and was considered one of the world's leading authorities on communications protocol design. After Stanford, Dr. Flaherty joined Digital Equipment Corporation's Network Systems Laboratory, where he invented and managed the Alta Vista search engine. Since then, he worked as a corporate strategist and management consultant, independently and for firms such as Zindigo and Accenture. Author of the forthcoming book, "A Better Mousetrap: Corporate Strategy for Emerging Technology", Paul has delivered international keynotes for COMDEX, Internet World, DECUS, and other trade shows in the US and throughout the world.![[SU]](./img/www-su.gif)
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