Helping hams Get-On-The-Air and keeping the amateur radio community radio active!
April 17th is our next planning meeting for Field Day 2025
Be on this meeting if you want to find out what Field day is and what our club is doing, or if you have some helpful advice or opinions on what we should do this year. If you want to learn how you can help, or if you are ready to volunteer, join the meeting. This meeting will be on the Zoom Lounge at 6pm. The information to join is in the weekly e-mail.
Radio In The Park, Saturday, April 19th 10AM-3PM at Las Flores Park in La Verne.
We are usually, towards the Southeast corner of the park. Bring Radios, Antennas, Snacks, Drinks and a smile. or at least a hat, chair and some water. As usual remember to listen to the WG6OTA repeater before or on the way to the park, just in case there is a change in plans. See you on the Air!
The Hilltop Repeater is running on batteries and solar which have enough power to keep it up indefinitely without grid power.
As of Wednesday, February 5th, the grid power is out on Sunset Ridge. Work is underway to restore it, but it may be a while. Ken has made many upgrades so the repeater now has full backup power. New and better batteries, solar panels, generator, power management, and efficiency upgrades. At times the repeater may be shut down or our low level backup repeater may be ‘on’ instead. (coverage is more limited. HT’s may only work local to Claremont. Try to use your outdoor antenna and some extra power).
The Monthly Simplex net is hosted by Thomas, WB6HYH,. As usual we will be on 146.580MHz starting at 6:15pm. A great way to explore the reach of your 2 meter equipment without benefit of repeater, both receiving and transmitting. Bring a pad of paper and record signal reports for all you hear. Tom will collect and collate these. Use this scale for your reports:
1=Nothing at all heard, not even noise or hiss suggesting a specific signal is present.
2=It was apparent that a signal was present but communication is impossible even with reasonable re-tries.
3=Communication possible with noise and possibly some re-tries to cover drop outs.
4=Good communication though with some noise or other artifacts, but generally solid copy.
5=Solid copy, little or no noise, full or nearly full quieting.
Be patient during silences as there will probably be participants you cannot hear and net control is likely communicating with those stations during silences.