from the ARRL: Stay Safe and Stay On the Air With 2020 ARRL Field Day – one of the biggest events on the Amateur Radio calendar – just about 12 weeks away, ARRL officials are monitoring this situation with the coronavirus very closely and paying close attention to all of the information and guidance being offered by the CDC’s Centers […]
PUBLIC NOTICE Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 DA 20-467 ORIGINAL PDF FILE Released: April 30, 2020 WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS BUREAU CONFIRMS THAT AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE OPERATOR LICENSE EXAMINATIONS MAY BE HELD REMOTELY The Amateur Radio Service provides opportunities for self-training, intercommunication, and technical investigations for qualified persons of any age who are interested in […]
Background For more than several decades, TCARES has established and maintained five repeaters across Tuolumne County. We have recently finished an inspection and survey of the systems and performed some FCC licensing updates as well as renewing some repeater coordinations with NARCC. You can view our current repeater set up here. While the repeaters are holding up fairly […]
Subject: Simplex net Saturday May 2, 2020 AFTER EVENT LOG: VIEW WHO PARTICIPATED AND FROM WHERE UPDATED: The objective of the net would be to see who we could reliably contact on a simplex frequency. The simplex net would start at 1030 hours and use the simplex frequency of 147.540. We would collect call sign, name and location information. […]
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**Interfaith is offering food delivery from items they have in stock in their food pantry. Must be 65 or older. Food is free, donations are accepted. Please call 532-0905 to sign-up. **The Senior Center is offering to-go meals for seniors age 60 and over. Please call 533-2622 by 9am to reserve your meal. **Area 12 – Home-Maker Program provides a grocery […]
Links to every FEMA NIMS & ARRL on-line course of interest to ARES. If you get into this do the ARRL EC-016 last – or you might get discouraged & miss all of the good ones. As many of us are working from home or are spending more time at home here are a number of online courses you may […]
VIEW INSTRUCTIONS HERE TCARES MEMBERS REGISTER HERE Amateur Radio Emergency Service Transitioning to New Online Reporting System The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) will phase out the traditional ARES report forms later this year in favor of an online system called ARES Connect, a volunteer management, communications, and reporting system. The new system will allow information to be logged […]
