SC4 Amateur Radio Club

Put me down for a meat lasagna.

Also, I’m available for the clean up crew.

Count me in !

I will be shutting down the KJ6VCP-8 digipeater later today.

I get a lot of questions about the various emergency preparedness and services groups that exist, whether they’re volunteers, community groups, or government agencies. There is a lot of confusion about OES, CERT, ARES, CEC, CEAP, as well as groups like SSEPO, Woodside HWRT, and so on. Lots of acronyms tend to get tossed around, so I think a…[Read more]

The Yellow OES Go-box gear includes a PowerWerx SS-30DV switching supply. This is the power supply currently in use for the FT-8900. The power supply is not labeled with a county asset tag – I will add a label to it.

W6SCF-8 is working for me from the home station, so I have access to both nodes.

Thanks for setting this up.

I can definitely do Sunday 4am-10am. Other shifts might also be possible.

On the Tuesday night County Sheriff’s net, they announced that they would be monitoring the OES repeaters, including CTL93 and CTL95. They did not mention any specific plans to open a net.

I’m available, and will be monitoring on the radio.

Yes – I’m in. Do we have a time window? I’m trying to squeeze in Pacificon as well.

I’ll bring Hummus for a snack dip, and will be around for breakfast.

You can use the search in the top right corner. Change the drop down to ‘posts’, otherwise, it searches members by default.

An alternative is to use a search term like “site:sc4arc.org generator” on google or DuckDuckGo

My attempt at searching posts for generators wasn’t successful, so I recommend the search engine alternative. The also…[Read more]

I found time over the weekend to check the balance on the antenna after tuning.
Here are my measurements:

Band Left Right
20M 16' 0" 15' 6"
40M 30' 1" 33' 5"
80M 62' 3" 62' 2"

Now, for 80M I’m not going to split hairs over an inch at 62′ – its well within measurement error since the antenna and tape were both hanging in the air, and it’s a…[Read more]

We had a successful tuning day! Here are the tuning lengths compared to the model.

80M: modeled: 125.53 ft, actual: 128.5 ft
40M: modeled: 67.0 ft, actual: 67.16 ft
20M: modeled 33.65ft, actual: 33.15 ft

The model was surprisingly close on 20M and 40M. 80M is tricky, because we are so close to the ground, ground and height really matters. I…[Read more]

Who wants to operate CW on Marconi day?

Done.

Time Correction : The test will be 0900 hours to 1000 hours pacific