SC4 Amateur Radio Club

I use my ft-60 for monitoring the repeater when I’m home. The battery lasts for days, though it’s usually turned off when I’m at work. I’m using Li-Ion batteries, which last longer than the Ni-MH batts.

Yaesu-Vertex FT-60 Battery

(choose Li-Ion chemistry on the menu).

So, the repeater is down. Everyone please monitor the .805 (CTL95) repeater instead until further notice.

Thanks for coming back. Yes, let’s move the net to the .805 repeater, CTL95.

Thank you, Peter!!

I have a projection screen you can use. In which case, if you need me to teach I would prefer something on Saturday morning. I can also bring treats that morning.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Onward, to the next gluttonous affair…

The holiday party is only a few days away…so, last call for potluck sign ups. It looks like we can use more vegetables on the menu, but sign up for whatever strikes your fancy. I keep the potluck list updated, so check this thread on the website if you want to…[Read more]

The CEC Fall 2019 Newsletter has a list of acronyms (p. 4). And their first newsletter has a description of what the various volunteer organizations that are trained to help first responders do. If that helps.

Opening a DOC or providing comms support is at the behest of Chief Delay. With no official activation, though, if there is something going on in Branch 3 or 4 that is a threat or could develop into a threat, the SC4ARC folks should be on their radios exchanging information and reporting on what’s going on in their vicinity. Even in the DOC, we…[Read more]

You might interview Pat and/or Peggy to see how their community comms system works with GRMS and ham radios. Butano is doing something similar, though on a smaller scale. Thanks for doing that. Getting information out during an emergency is critical, and not easy to do without electricity & phones.

I can take Wednesday, 4am-10am.

Jeneen

There is a radio and power supply in the yellow box. It’s not a particularly good radio for emcomm needs. We are waiting to get the FT-8900 back from Rick in Middleton, which he has on loan from the club. I believe that radio is going to stay at the fire house. We really need headphones, based on my experience yesterday 🙂

Does anyone know…[Read more]

I can do 4-10pm on Saturday or Sunday. It would be nice if one CERT person who is not a ham could accommodate one ham operator for each shift. At the rate these power outages are going, we’re going to run out of hams to staff the DOC if we have two hams. Just a suggestion.

Since the DOC opens at 10 pm, we will not be conducting a net. Please have your radios on just in case something comes up, and limit transmissions to only priority or emergency traffic during the night so we don’t wake people up. That includes letting people know that your electricity is off – which we would normally be interested in but not…[Read more]