SC4 Amateur Radio Club

California DPH says outdoor gatherings up to 50 people are okay in Orange tier. I’m hoping we’re in yellow by June, but I don’t think we’ve had more than 50 at a time at Field Day since I’ve been attending. We should start thinking about how we’re going to do food, particularly since serving utensils are the biggest risk factor and radio shifts,…[Read more]

Joe
is correct. We will follow CDC guidelines in any case. We will see in two months what the situation will be. For vaccinated people current rules are below:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated.html

Angelo

Please remember that being vaccinated does not mean it’s a free for all. Social distancing and masking still applies. Just say’n.

Mary and I will be fully vaccinated well before Field Day and would love to participate in a group event if possible. The Resource Trailer has worked well as an outdoor station and would be a good asset for the event. I will volunteer to help set up an antenna or two to get us on the air! Mary says she can also help set up antennas.

If we don’t get a permit we can probably still find an outdoor place where we don’t need a permit. As long as we follow CDC rules I will be happy to do a real field day this year.

Will and Adda are fully shot and could be participants at the Open Space location for Field Day. We have a rig and can sleep over to observe any installations. But we probably won’t be much help for elaborate antenna setups. We can volunteer for cooking tho!

Since I’m fully vaccinated, I’d like to operate from the La Honda site if possible.

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]

Clever little radio. I think they may have taken the CB metaphor a bit too far for a ham-focused device, but it looks like it has all the requisite functions. It’s great that a technician class operator can use this for SSB, then for 10m repeaters when they test up. Now I’m getting motivated to make a 10m dipole, until I can get the 80-10 fan up…[Read more]

oops here is the link

Thats a good point, we don’t want to cause confusion in an emergency.
here is a link for a cheep’ish single band 10m radio–not sure how good it is, but it does SSB.…[Read more]

It was fun to test. After we do a little more testing and determine that 10m could work around our area, we could likely help build antennas and possibly find inexpensive radios to build or buy. It would be a good project, but I don’t think we should confuse people about our current emergency protocols. Everyone should be clear on which…[Read more]

An amended version of the minutes has been uploaded to the library. The water forum this Thursday is hosted by Thrive Alliance and Sustainable Pescadero. In addition, the radios that Irma has available for David T. are not club assets. Thanks. Pat