This page is for information about the CSUCI Amateur Radio Interest Group (KN6ZYB).

Interest Group Meetings

Starting in Fall 2023, the group will meet on Thursdays at noon in Del Norte 3550. The first meeting was on Thursday, 24 August. We’re thinking of having a large group meeting every three weeks.

NEXT MEETING is on Thursday, 19 October.

Come bring a lunch and enjoy a conversation or presentation on some topic of interest to the group.

Email your suggestions for topics to the amateur-radio email distribution list. (See below.)

Here’s a draft calendar of our meetings this semester and our meeting topics:

  • August 24th: introductions, interests
  • September 7th: propogation of radio waves, the coverage of the campus 2m radio
  • September 28th: Sushi Net (12:05-12:15) followed by an update on club opportunities
  • October 19th: Amateur Radio and the Great Shakeout: Disaster Preparedness
  • November 9th: Getting Outdoors with Radio: Summits on the Air (Martin Hickey, AJ6CL)
  • November 30th: To be determined

Radio Room

Our Radio Room in Del Norte 3512 is alive and kicking. We have four transcievers (three dual band UHF/VHF, and one HF/UHF/VHF, all Yaesu made). We have six runs of LMR-400 between the room and the roof along with two runs of CAT6 cable. But we only have one dual band antenna on Del Norte’s roof, right now. We’re working on getting more antennas up there. Stay tuned.

The room also has a few PCs with radio-related software installed (along with the standard campus software suite) ready to be used creatively.

All this is here and it wants to be used by members of this interest group. To be a member of this group, you need to be part of the University community (employee or student). To be given independent access to the room (i.e., keycode access), you need to be a member with an amateur radio license. You will also need to sign an agreement that outlines how the room should be used, etc.

If you have keycode access, please remember to sign in on the clipboard so we have a record of who is using the room, when it’s being used, and for what. This record is important because it gives us data that shows the room is a campus asset.

Note that it’s OK to use the room to do homework or hangout between classes to listen to the dual band on scan. Even that use should get recorded on the clipboard. But please give priority to those folks who want to use the space for doing radio-related work.

Licensed Members

At present (18 August 2023), we have the following active licensed members:

Geoff Buhl (KK6NLR, group vice president, 2023-2024), geoffrey.buhl@csuci.edu
Matthew Furmanski (KN6LTW), matthew.furmanski@csuci.edu
Matthew Gone (KN6QMZ), mattgone242@gmail.com
Jason Isaacs (KI6CDJ), jason.isaacs@csuci.edu
Alan Jaeger(KJ6VZG), alan.jaeger@csuci.edu
Ben Kuo (AI6YR), Benjamin.kuo@csuci.edu
Jason Miller (KM6PSZ, group president 2023-2024), jason.miller@csuci.edu
Max Seligman (KM6WMZ), maximilian.seligman@csuci.edu
Michael Spencer (KM6EDQ), michael.spencer443@myci.csuci.edu
Todd Van Epps (KN6SHK), t.vanepps@yahoo.com

Our email distribution list includes fifteen other students, staff, and faculty.

We want to support others in their pursuit of a license, so let us know how we can support YOU.

Email List

There is an email list for those interested in staying up-to-date with this interest group. To subscribe to the email list, send an empty email to sympa@lists.csuci.edu with the subject line

subscribe amateur-radio FName LName

where FName is your first name and LName is your surname or family name. (If you’re name doesn’t conform to this pattern, we apologize. You’re welcome to try something or to leave both blank.)

When the list serve software received this email, it will reply to you with information about the list. You can find an archive of past messages to the list at this website. Emails you send to this will also appear in this achive.

If you have questions about this email list, please feel free to email them to Dr. Jason Miller.

There are many sources of information on amateur radio online. Here are a few links of regional interest:

  1. Miller’s posts about amateur radio on campus: Campus amateur radio

    1. Amateur Radio Emergency Service/Auxiliary Communications Service (ARES/ACE) in Ventura County: http://www.vcomm.org
  2. Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club: http://www.cvarc.org

  3. Pleasant Valley Amateur Radio Club: https://www.pvarc.club

  4. Radio Licensure Examination Information from the Federal Communications Commission

  5. Question pool for amateur radio license exams: http://ncvec.org

Poster Information (Spring 2022)

The poster for the Amateur Radio Interest Group has several pictures that were shared under a Creative Commons license.