Join us for the 50th annual Pinecrest Run! The five-mile winds through the roads of Pinecrest and along the shores of Pinecrest Lake. The one mile is a quick race on pavement. This is a fundraiser event for Pinecrest Expedition Academy, our local private school. Sorry, pets are not allowed in the race. Get registered today! TCARES GMRS licensees are being asked to provide volunteer radio support for the 1 mile, and 5 mile races. This is Tuolumne County’s oldest, continually running foot race. We can use 5 or 6 volunteers. As we learned last year a couple of places have […]
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Wallace (Wally) Lee Ratzlaff was born at home on October 20, 1936 in Winton California. He was the youngest of three children (Evelyn, Leland & Wallace) born to Ben and Ethel Ratzlaff. His years growing up were rich with the closeness of family and many beloved cousins that doubled as best friends! He grew up working hard with his family in the peach orchards and on the ranch. And from a very early age, Wally pursed a God-given love of electronics and communications, building mail-order radio kits and components. Wally used to say he was “born with electrons in his blood”! […]
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.
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 be a directed net, but we will not have a roll call. We will request check-ins by Alphabet Sequence […]
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 […]
