(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 not more than 10 minutes
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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 https://fathersdayflyin.org/event-schedule) 8:00 am – Admission Gates Open Admission for 2022 is FREE as the event is rebuilt […]
For those interested in Neighborhood Radio Watch (NRW) programs, here are links to two Facebook pages + a webpage: 1) Columbia College GMRS Group (NRW nets on Tuesday nights at 7:30 pm); https://www.facebook.com/ColumbiaCollegeGMRS 2) Groveland GMRS Radio Watch (NRW nets on Saturday nights at 7 pm): https://www.facebook.com/groups/885555812498346 and 3) TUOLUMNE COUNTY GMRS Radio Repeater webpage: https://tuolumnecountygmrs.weebly.com Twain Harte Area – check in on GMRS , channel 18 (no tone) Wednesday evenings 7:00 PM. With the potential for massive failures of our land lines and mobile phone infrastructure, during a wildfire, there is increased interested in developing neighborhood based radio watch groups. Everyone in a neighborhood can participate with a Family Radio (FRS), […]
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 and communications resilience. Since 2019, Alan has given over 100 presentations before Civic Groups, Fire-safe Councils and […]
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 born. Parachute Mobile operates amateur (ham) radio gear while skydiving. Radio jumps are usually HAHO types (high […]
