This workshop is for all interested in becoming a ham radio operator, or is a new ham radio operator. This is an informational workshop with live demonstrations. Additional study before or after is recommended. Sign up at the bottom of this page. AGENDA: When all else fails…. Emergency Preparedness What is an FCC License? How to prepare and take a FCC test Basics of a Transceiver How to operate […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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2020 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 […]
Please see link below for the 3 page PDF document. A discussion on this new constitution will be on the agenda for the next club meeting on Saturday September 21 at 9:30 (8:30 for breakfast) at the My Garden Cafe. DOWNLOAD
TCARES was asked by the Motherlode Bike Coalition, on short notice, to provide radio communications for a bike event on Saturday August 24. More info about the event can be found here. A request went out to the club for 2 or 3 hams to assist. N4NED, KM6NCU and WA6N volunteers to work the Old Priest Grade from 6 am to 9 am. The CHP closed the road and […]
https://www.uniondemocrat.com/localnews/7225176-151/local-ham-radio-group-takes-part-in-national For more information about amateur radio and field day events in Sugarpine, visit https://tcares.net/ Roots of amateur radio date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, more than a hundred years ago, and locals here in the Mother Lode, up and down California, and all over the rest of the planet are still doing it. They call themselves hams and ham radio operators and amateur radio operators, […]
We are asking all members to update their contact information and sharing preferences. Please fill out this form here. TCARES membership is open to everyone. As a member of TCARES, your dues help support a variety of club activities. Membership fees provide for maintenance fees for the club repeaters across the county. Funds are also used to support TCARES’ portable communication gear, and pay for printing and the club […]
Field Day is an annual amateur radio exercise, widely sponsored by IARU regions and member organizations, encouraging emergency communicationspreparedness[1] among amateur radio operators. In the United States, it is typically the largest single emergency preparedness exercise in the country, with over 30,000 operators participating each year. Field Day is always the fourth full weekend of June, beginning at 18:00 UTC Saturday and running through 20:59 UTC Sunday. Since the first ARRL Field Day in 1933, radio amateurs […]
Emergency public service and TCARES, what do you know about this? The Tuolumne County Amateur Radio & Electronics Society (TCARES) has always been intimately involved in and supportive of our emergency service providers. It is in our blood and brain! TCARES support is overtly demonstrated by participation in two other organizations: ARES and RACES. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has been a strong supporter of emergency public service. […]