2019 Board Member Nominations TCARES BOARD of DIRECTORS: The Corporation has seven ( 7 ) Directors, consisting of : The four (4) executive Officers and three (3) Directors at large. Elected from the membership, these seven (7) board members will be known as the Board of Directors. ELECTION Process: 1. Nominations shall be collected during October. 2. Elections will be held in November. 3. Balloting will end on November 30. 4. Elected Board Members will be announced in December. To nominate a member to serve in a position, download and complete this form: TCARES Nomination sheet 2019 Who are the current […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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http://www.pacificon.org The Pacificon staff has negotiated a convention rate of $138 per night per room for a set number of rooms. That rate is good until September 19th, or until that block of rooms has sold out, whichever occurs first. Click Here to Make Your Hotel Reservations The Pacificon 2018 Team has been working very hard to bring you the very best Pacificon that we can. The location will once again be at the San Ramon Marriott located in San Ramon, California. MDARC has been working tirelessly to provide you with some of the finest forum speakers and demonstrations of amateur […]
Amateur radio is more than a hobby for Groveland resident Carl Croci. On top of spending many nights a week relaying messages with amateur radio operators in the area and across the globe, the 77-year-old also serves as the Tuolumne County coordinator for Amateur Radio Emergency Services. The service is capable of providing backup communication for the community during wildfires and other types of emergencies to alleviate the burden on phone lines and official emergency radio systems. Croci is also a longtime member of the Tuolumne County Amateur Radio Electronic Society, or TCARES. His call sign is NI6Z. “It’s a great […]
Upcoming Contact with ISS, Listen from Central California on 145.800 Hand held and mobile radios can receive, use largest antenna you have. Listen at 09:49 AM (9:49 AM pacific) CORRECTED TIME Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School, Santa Ana, CA, direct via AA6TB (Ricky Arnold KE5DAU) Thu 2018-09-06 16:49:52 UTC 81 deg An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School, Santa Ana, CA on 06 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:49 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS […]
On Sunday, August 5, 2018, TCARES was contacted by Red Cross officials from Sacramento and Sonora, requesting Amateur Radio support for the Sonora Red Cross Shelter for the purposes of providing back up communication services should commercial services become disabled. Members of the club quickly responded by setting up a UHF/VHF radio station with an external antenna for local voice communications and is preparing a WinLink station for national Red Cross communications, as a back up to commercial methods, should they fail. Channel 19 (Univision) happened to stop by and film the shelter prior to heading up the hill to the […]
The Incident Command System is Useful in Both Emergency and Routine Incidents Join Ham Operators in a day of basic / refresher training on the Incident Command System (ICS) on Saturday, August 25, 2018. A working knowledge of ICS and how it might impact amateur radio operators will be the subject of an all-day workshop at the Tuolumne County Library. This workshop will be presented by Craig Konklin, a retired Battalion Chief and Training Officer from CAL FIRE. There is NO CHARGE for this workshop; however, RSVP (to KJ6QVI@yahoo.com) / sign-up (during weekly TCARES Nets) will be appreciated, to ensure that […]