<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>I've included the ZOOM link below for our February BARS meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>This meeting will be both in-person at the church and on ZOOM</div><div><br></div><div>Topic: Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, First Vice President of the ARRL</div><div>Kristen will be updating us on the latest trends and happenings at the ARRL. This is a presentation you won't want to miss!</div><div><span style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:"Almaden Sans",Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;letter-spacing:0.42px">Kristen has been interested in radio since she was about 5 years old. When she was small, she built many radio kits, including her favorite: the one-tube radio kit. She started in Amateur Radio around 1979 while at MIT, obtaining her technician's license. She built a 2m repeater with an autopatch to use while on campus at MIT. Somewhere in the middle of all this, life intervened, and her license lapsed. She has recently been re-licensed, getting her extra ticket. She has recently held the call signs KG6OGQ, AE6KJ, and K6WX in rapid succession. She is now active on 2m, 1.2GHz, and is active on HF with an Elecraft K2 she built while on vacation visiting her mother. Kristen often does her HF-ing mobile with the K2 and a hamstick or from her apartment with a homebrew helical vertical dipole and an IC-7600 driving an AL-811H. These days, she loves to chase DX using mostly CW, and works contests from time to time.
Kristen is also licensed in Japan, her second home, as JI1IZZ.
Kristen is ARRL Technical Coordinator for the East Bay Section and is president of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association for 2007, 2008, 2010 through the present. She is also a member of the following clubs: Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association, South Bay Amateur Radio Association, NCCC, USS Hornet Amateur Radio Club, Northern California DX Club, Northern California Contest Club, FISTS CW Club (10232), NAQCC, SKCC, and Young Ladies Radio League. Kristen is also net control twice a week (well, once a week for now since work is pressing) for the 9 am talk net:</span></div><div><br></div><div>Time: Feb 4, 2026, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)</div><div><br></div><div>Join Zoom Meeting:</div><div><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83492072688?pwd=dOikCB8xlcwlYabL41hUD88nbbokiz.1">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83492072688?pwd=dOikCB8xlcwlYabL41hUD88nbbokiz.1</a> (<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83492072688?pwd=dOikCB8xlcwlYabL41hUD88nbbokiz.1">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83492072688?pwd=dOikCB8xlcwlYabL41hUD88nbbokiz.1</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Meeting ID: 834 9207 2688</div><div>Passcode: 737373</div><div><br></div><div>One tap mobile:</div><div>+13017158592,,83492072688#,,,,*737373# US (Washington DC)</div><div>+13052241968,,83492072688#,,,,*737373# US</div><div><br></div><div>You can download and import the iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system here:</div><div><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcpfuuoqTksEtz5YkiKx-SoRcHFKN7ZTfMd/ics?icsToken=DFYJz4_H6qVfGLhAAgAALAAAAJ7whGVfJw87tNCuup8l3QPxVONEYkxqy_qvg4JGeyIa2WSdOK31fQXWotZ_YSa4q6WX-O3y3AD_zITzZzAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=wi-IajqiR7mKw478U4yXCQ">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcpfuuoqTksEtz5YkiKx-SoRcHFKN7ZTfMd/ics?icsToken=DFYJz4_H6qVfGLhAAgAALAAAAJ7whGVfJw87tNCuup8l3QPxVONEYkxqy_qvg4JGeyIa2WSdOK31fQXWotZ_YSa4q6WX-O3y3AD_zITzZzAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=wi-IajqiR7mKw478U4yXCQ</a> (<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcpfuuoqTksEtz5YkiKx-SoRcHFKN7ZTfMd/ics?icsToken=DFYJz4_H6qVfGLhAAgAALAAAAJ7whGVfJw87tNCuup8l3QPxVONEYkxqy_qvg4JGeyIa2WSdOK31fQXWotZ_YSa4q6WX-O3y3AD_zITzZzAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=wi-IajqiR7mKw478U4yXCQ">https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZcpfuuoqTksEtz5YkiKx-SoRcHFKN7ZTfMd/ics?icsToken=DFYJz4_H6qVfGLhAAgAALAAAAJ7whGVfJw87tNCuup8l3QPxVONEYkxqy_qvg4JGeyIa2WSdOK31fQXWotZ_YSa4q6WX-O3y3AD_zITzZzAwMDAwMQ&meetingMasterEventId=wi-IajqiR7mKw478U4yXCQ</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce Anderson</div></div>