Tuolumne County Amateur Radio Electronics Society has joined Amazon Smiles. Amazon smiles is a charitable organization with Amazon.com. When you choose to use our amazon smiles link we, as a Non profit, will receive a half percent of the eligible purchase. Amazon Smiles Link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/77-0266803 If you are an IOS or Android user please: Go to your app store and download the amazon shopping app. Login to your account like […]
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UPDATED FOOD RESOURCES HERE Download this Tuolumne County Resources Booklet ——- **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 take to expand your skills as emergency radio operators. Basic (read: must […]
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 by ARES members and managed through the Field Organization. The advent […]
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, […]
Segments of the course entered Yosemite Park TCARES had the privilege of providing radio communications for the Route Marshalls during the 2019 Groveland Grind Adventure Ride for Mountain Bikers. Cyclists enjoyed a course of over 40 miles of terrain between 3400 and 5500 elevation. A team of 15 ham radio operators provided professional tracking and communications for the 60+ participants during a 7 hour period Saturday May 18th, 2019. […]
We had a GREAT Workshop! On Saturday, April 27, TCARES members presented a workshop oriented toward new and potential Amateur Radio Operators (Hams) and to the general public who might not have a good understanding of what Ham Radio is all about. The workshop commenced at 0900 hours and ended about 1500 hours with topics including what to expect as you study for your FCC license exam, practice exams, […]