SC4 Amateur Radio Club

A reminder to all of our club members that the official Coastside Communication Plan may be found on our website under Information ▷ Coastside Communication Plan in both printable (PDF) format and downloadable (CSV) format for programming. That list is kept current and is coordinated with San Mateo Co. OES.

Ah! A learning experience! As you discovered, the FT-60 charger cradle is designed to charge the battery to full and then shut off. You need to remove the battery from the charger to reset and place it back again to start a new charging cycle.

Older model FT-60s would charge the battery when they were plugged in. At some point Yaesu removed the…[Read more]

Puente purchased their FT-8900 and two or three FT-60 handy talkies for their staff. They could probably use an update on their programming as I can’t remember the last time I saw those. I’m guessing more than 2 years ago.

The Pescadero high school radio (an FT-8900,) power supply and antenna are owned by SC4ARC and have our asset tags on them.…[Read more]

Thank you, Neil. Your offer is gratefully accepted.

And including Neil’s offer we now have enough people to help this Saturday. Thank you all.

Short notice: We can use one or two Extra class licensees to help administer the exams this Saturday. If you have an Extra class license and you are available to help this Saturday between 10:00 AM and noon at the La Honda fire house, please let me know ASAP.

Thanks!

Reminder that there is an exam session this coming Saturday at the La Honda fire house. Doors will open at 10:00 AM and we will start at 10:30. If you plan to take a test, please bring:

$15 cash (Exact change is appreciated.)
Printed copy of your FRN (SSN is acceptable.)
Picture ID (Driver’s license, passport, student ID.)

Upgrading? Bring:

$15…[Read more]

I want to make sure that I recognized folks who turned out Sunday for set up and tear down: Eva, KN6CZD; Bob, W6RES; Mary, AF6IE; Casey, KA5WAX; Neil, W6VG; Gabe, K6YAH and our instructors: Angelo, N6QAD and Bob, W6RES.

We had 24 students attend this past weekend, bringing our total to 45 students in 2019.

Wow! What a turnout to attend this class and from our club to make day 1 of 2 happen!

Thank you to Jeneen, W6NCS; Eva, KN6CZD; Bob, W6RES; Mary, AF6IE; Casey, KA5WAX and Gabe, K6YAH for helping to set up and tear down; Pat, KJ6GMG; Neil, W6VG and Bob, KM6DKE for teaching sections today. Thank you to Ari for being the fire chief who supports his…[Read more]

I’ve posted the draft, class schedule in the library: http://www.sc4arc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/class_schedule.pdf

Jeneen, W6NCS is bringing a standing projection screen. Firehouse has 2 projectors and tripod, chart stands.

Saturday morning setup (8:30 AM): Eva, KN6CZD
Saturday afternoon teardown (4:30 PM): Casey, KA5WAX
Sunday morning…[Read more]

We have 2 projectors on hand already, but we do need a projection screen. If anyone has one that we can borrow, please respond.

If you hold a General Class or higher license, the following sections are available for you to teach…

Saturday morning:
About Ham Radio pp 33-36
Call Signs pp 37-44
Control pp 45-50
Mind The Rules pp 51-54
Tech…[Read more]

We have a projector for presentations. I will double check on that tonight.

Since we are using the apparatus bay we can’t leave the tables and chairs set up outside of class hours: The engines are parked inside at night. We’ll have to set up before the 9:00 AM start and take everything down after 4:30 both days.

I’ll pick up some snacks and…[Read more]

It’s short notice: Please let me know if you are interested in teaching a section December 14th or 15th. We’re moving quickly and keeping this local so regretfully, I’m not reaching out to HMB this time (though I appreciate their help.)

If you’ve recently offered to help teach, please confirm your availability here.

Because of the size of the…[Read more]

I’ll bring a bay nut, ricotta cheese cake.

Peter

Its old news, now, but here’s a lengthy (45 minute) interview with Jim Aspinwall (technical committee chair, NARCC) touching on the concerns of CalFire regarding the amateur repeater in Shasta. It was made shortly after the now infamous letter and video, so it doesn’t cover all of the specifics of that particular repeater but does address the…[Read more]

W6SCF-8 has been shutdown for now.

Thank you, Sammy! I’ve sent you directions to the repeater in a private message.

Do we have another volunteer to re-fuel the generator Wednesday afternoon? Please respond here…

I just started the generator on the 2m repeater. A tank of gas (1 gallon) should run the engine 6-8 hours and probably restores the batteries to 75-80% full, buying us another 36 hours of independent operation depending on how much it transmits. I suggest that we re-start the generator Tuesday late afternoon or evening (in 24 hours) and…[Read more]