SC4 Amateur Radio Club

September 2nd is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

August 5th is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

Typographical error has been fixed.

Following Saturday’s meeting we will hold our first in-person practical class since the lockdown began. The practical class includes: Repeater operation. Net protocol. Programming your radio (and I’ll have a computer that will program many radios with all of the Coastside Comm. Plan frequencies.)

Saturday at the firehouse, from noon until your…[Read more]

July 1st is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

All is well.

The power supply was switched off. I was the last one up there, so I must have bumped the switch while I was moving stuff around.

Since PG&E was still present, the beep didn’t give a warning. Eventually the batteries ran down since they we weren’t being charged. I’ll look at a better monitoring system to give me more status…[Read more]

June 3rd is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

May 6th is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

Folks have gotten quite a bit out of Field Day by logging entries for a little bit with an experienced operator and then switching seats after they’ve heard how the exchanges are made. You can stay for a little bit if that’s all of the time you have, but an hour or two will be more rewarding.

Staying for the full 24 hours is amazing; You will…[Read more]

Confirming that these are 12 each TERA TR-505, GMRS radios. They are already programmed with 8 simplex and 8 repeater frequencies and are ready to use.

The repeater is programmed and ready to use.

Training should include radio discipline, an understanding of the ICS-205 (Primary channel and backup channel: When to use each.) For this exercise,…[Read more]

April 1st is the first Thursday of the month and we will perform the monthly test of the pager system at approximately 1900h. The test will take place on our VHF repeater, channel name CMD31, and will be preceded by a brief announcement. The entire test will take only a few minutes.

As part of our preparedness program we test the system…[Read more]

I have never been able to work CMD33 from my home so I’m not familiar with how it normally sounds. I don’t believe it has the 2 tone battery alert (that’s something that I made up for CMD31.) The club that used to run KD6KGE may have assigned some other significance (like link up/down) to the confirmation beeps.

The last time that I visited the…[Read more]

Our auxiliary radio for CMD31 above Butano has sufficient battery for several days of operation. I’d put a generator on it if the outage lasts more than 5 days. The goal was 9 days of backup and we exceed that.

CMD33 (KD6KGE, UHF for Butano and Pescadero) hasn’t been maintained in quite a long time and the batteries are dead. The club could adopt…[Read more]

Lisa’s article about planning for the evacuation was included in the national, ARES newsletter!

If you aren’t signed up to receive The ARES Letter from ARRL by email, you can find it at http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2021-02-17 If you’re an ARRL member and would like to receive this monthly newsletter log in to the ARRL website, go to “Edit…[Read more]

I’m happy to take the 1800-2400h shift Tuesday.