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Tornado

Ham Radio Operators observe Tornado storm activity in Tuolumne County

Here is the slide show from Jeff’s excellent presentation at the last breakfast meeting. Download and view the presentation to get more details or see what you might have missed if you missed the meeting. THE MAP

APRS presentation by N6JWT, Jeff

These photos were from several storms ago, back in November. NOTE: See the horizontal icicles that formed form high moisture content and freezing temps and just the right amount of wind.

Photos from Duckwall Repeater Site

SHAKEOUT DRILL: A big thanks to the 40 people that checked into the net from all parts of the County and other counties. The County GIS Mapping crew made amazing maps and kept updating as we conducted the 45 minute NET. TC OES staff thanked us for the demonstration and we discussed changes and additions for the next exercise/drill. Here are some photos. Results/Feedback/Lessons Learned: 40+ Local hams checked in! Good coverage across the county Some stations had difficulty checking in from Pinecrest and […]

Results of the Earthquake Drill with County OES

Sights and Sounds from 2022 Pacificon

California Shakeout Drill UPDATE #2THURSDAY OCT 20, 2022 12:30 PMYou can participate in a special annual emergency net with organizations across California.  TCARES and TC Office of Emergency Services are planning an emergency NET to demonstrate the TCARES repeater infrastructure during a simulated communications outage following a simulated major earthquake incident.  We are looking for MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION!Our goal is to see check-ins from Pinecrest to Jamestown, from Mariposa to Angels Camp, and from Modesto to Yosemite National Park! (AND ALL POINTS IN-BETWEEN) ALL TCARES REPEATERS WILL BE LINKED, Use the one that works best for you. CHECK-IN format.It will […]

Tuolumne County Emergency Radio Drill

(From Richard Combs) For Strawberry/Pinecrest Communities: There will be daily Neighborhood Radio Watch practice nets in Strawberry at the following times, note AM or PM. FRS/GMRS Chanel 7 Tone 1 After opening the net, it will be monitored for at least 10 minutes, so feel free to key up and check in. Friday Aug 12, 7PM. Saturday August 13, 8AM, Sunday August 14, 8AM and 7PM, Mon-Sat Aug 15-20 8AM. You are welcome to attend one, or all the nets. They will likely last […]

Neighborhood Radio Watch practice

TCARES ham radio club will set up a public information and radio demonstration table at the 2022 Father’s Day Fly-in with other vendors and public agencies and organizations. Will you volunteer? The information booth will be open for about 6 hours on each day Saturday and Sunday, can you work a 2 or 3 hour shift and help hand out flyers and demo radios? if so, please email info@tcares.net and indicate when you can help in the booth. Schedule of Events – Saturday (from […]

TCARES info booth @ Father’s Day Fly-in

Monday NOVEMBER 22, 4PM on ZOOM. Email Rich Combs at richsfpd@gmail.com for link. Residents of Tuolumne County interested in Fire Safety and Emergency Communications are invited to an online presentation by Alan Thompson, Satellite Internet Field Engineer of El Dorado Networks of Placerville. Alan helped restore Internet service at several downed cell-phone towers in Paradise shortly after the Camp Fire. What he saw there and learned later about the colossal emergency communications failures during the fire, turned him into an “Accidental Advocate” for fire safety […]

The urgent need for backup emergency-communications

Ham Radio Parachute Mobile Mission 39 is scheduled for Saturday August 21, 2021. You can reach via Simplex 146.430 MHz and jumps are made from 13,500 feet. Very reachable from Tuolumne County. If you have line of sight due west, you can participate! Ham radio operators Mark Meltzer, AF6IM, and Michael Gregg, KF6WRW, were chatting on a repeater in 2008 and learned that they shared skydiving as a second hobby. They talked further about combining the two hobbies and the Parachute Mobile Project was […]

Parachute Mobile Scheduled for August 21.

Photos from Field Day 2021 (plus a video)

04/22/2021 (from the ARRL.org) ARRL and the American Red Cross (ARC) have renewed their long-standing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for another 5 years. The MOU spells out how ARRL and the American Red Cross will work cooperatively during a disaster response. “We are pleased to extend our partnership with the American Red Cross,” ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, said. “This agreement details how ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) volunteers will interface with Red Cross personnel within the scope of their respective roles and duties whenever the Red Cross asks ARES […]

ARRL & Red Cross Renew MOU for 5 years

Linked Repeaters Explained

Spacewalk Could Return ARISS Ham Station in International Space Station back on the Air 03/09/2021 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) reports that efforts to determine what’s keeping the ham station in the ISS Columbus module off the air have been unsuccessful thus far. The radio equipment works, but no signal appears to be reaching the external ARISS antenna. The station, typically operated as NA1SS, has not been usable since new RF cables were installed during a January 27 spacewalk extravehicular activity […]

Spacewalk to Fix the ISS Ham Station

NEW: See video from Pinecrest repeater upgraded to linked system. HOW TO USE: Find all the frequencies for the system. 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 well, especially for such old installations. […]

2020 County Wide Linked Repeater Project

Please enjoy this short video by Jeff, N6WJT about pinging the ISS from his home in Columbia California.\

APRS Contact with the Space Station

From ARRL NEWS SpaceX Dragon capsule Resilience, carrying four radio amateurs, autonomously docked on November 17 at 0401 UTC with the International Space Station (ISS). A SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher carrying the precious payload went into space on Sunday, November 15, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. They comprise the ISS Expedition 64/65 crew. “Well, the ISS is loaded with hams now,” Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) US Delegate for ARRL Rosalie White, K1STO, said on Tuesday. “These four arrived very early this morning Eastern […]

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Resilience Delivers Four Ham Radio Operators to …

On September 2 a cross band FM amateur radio repeater with a downlink on 437.800 MHz was activated on the International Space Station. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announcement reads: The ARISS team is pleased to announce that set up and installation of the first element of our next generation radio system was completed and amateur radio operations with it are now underway. This first element, dubbed the InterOperable Radio System (IORS), was installed in the International Space Station Columbus […]

New Repeater Activated on the International Space Station

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