SC4 Amateur Radio Club

( catching up )

@Neil, we’ll have to come up with some kind of practical advice for Puente and their FT-60’s

There are a couple of Yaesu FT-5100 mobiles with power supplies and antennas in the Pescadero and Loma Mar fire stations that were purchased by Pescadero Emergency Preparedness back around 1999 with grant money. PEP and PMAC now consider those to be SC4ARC’s property and responsibility although there’s limited site access to test or to ser…

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Update, `cuz I’m back and it’s time:

The Puente 8900 has

• a slightly outdated plan
• a broken knob ( actually the stem is broken, not just the knob )
• a precarious spot
• the antenna’s radials have been bonked / truncated, which is a natural side effect of its location. They are lopsided, with the longest remaining element pointing NNE.

I just…[Read more]

Thanks all,

I’m surfing on-going schedule waves with this get go.

Mary thanks for introducing me to the idea of a radio_officer. Said radio officer is rather busy at all times, no?

Hi Radio Officer Peter. I now understand the hat in your profile. Thanks for the backgrounder.

strong>Peter if you would rather I hold off on all this just say so.…[Read more]

hey it does seem to be up!

FWIW the 805 doesn’t reach well into butano canyon proper. we’ll do some more testing about the place.

…ah good to know it wasn’t just us down in the Canyon.

thanks for the clear schedule, see y’all tomorrow afternoon.

I have a pretty good sized screen – big enough that it has to hang from something else.

It’s currently hanging from some hardware somewhere and I’ll take a photo of it tomorrow and a measurement.

It’s probably 6′ wide. We’ve hung it for events two ways:

1) on a hunk of Superstrut between two tall step ladders. I have said Superstrut.
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OIC; I can help tear down both nights, and set up the Sunday.

I have a spare projector or two if needed. One is in the Butano, the other in Belmont so I wld need some lead time. ( one is rather old – VGA input max. )

I can also offer a tripod stand for those giant 3m sticky sheets; I used to use those as a ‘wall of truth’ for participants…[Read more]

I have a conflict for Saturday 14th setup, however I can help with tear-down Sunday 15th
If you are setting up Friday I can help as well.
LMK

late for the train – I’m currently conflicted out due to the REX Foundation fundraiser. ( and I’m not even a dead head. )
srry.
the food sounds amazing.

Thanks for the info, Mike. I like this idea, and it gives me an excuse to push the boundary forward a bit.

thanks for mentioning that Radio, Eva. I just read the manual and it looks like it ticks a number of checkboxes I had.

The central odd-ball checkbox is some kind of bank scanning. the 10 ‘bank’ scan ranges based on memory location looks good to me.

Thanks for the poster, I’ll be distributing it this weekend down in Pescadero & at the next PMAC meeting.

how to know when to evacuate. ( listed in no special order )

regional authorities will activate the directed calling message, calling your home phone.
they have the capabilities to call people in specific geographic regions.
Additionally they may use the Emergency Alert System (EAS), which will take over / overlay messages on broadcast TV.…[Read more]

A blip of news went by that there may be a second wind event and corresponding PG&E shutdown immediately following the current one.

I think we are off the hook – unless we are not. greater minds please advise.

Public Safety Power Shutoff Notifications for
(650) 207-4880
Cancellation Alert: October 23, 2019 2:35 PM
Weather conditions have improved, power will not need to be turned off at the following address(es):

316 MADRONE AVE, PESCADERO
Meter # 1009763336…

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