Club Meeting

Thursday, October 8th

Please join the GOTAhams for our monthly club Meeting. We will be at El Ranchero Restaurant at: 984 West Foothill Blvd, Claremont. The restaurant will expect you to order food or drinks, so be there by 6pm so you can order and eat before the meeting. The meeting starts at 7pm.

If you cannot attend in person you can attend on Zoom. Club members will get the Zoom link in the weekly email at the beginning of the week. Non-members may send an e-mail to Tim N6DLC at: tim@wnbnet.net to get the Zoom link.

We will hear about QUARTZFEST from the event organizers, Hal and Danette.

The CERT presentation was moved to November.

We will also be making plans for J.O.T.A. This month’s Radio in the Park will include Scouts coming to make radio contacts with other stations.

We will make plans for our special Great Shakeout Net that will take place on October 15th at 10:15am.

Marconi Net.

Saturday, October 10th at 12 noon.

The WG6OTA repeater will be linked to the GB3IW repeater on the Isle of Wight.

The Marconi Net is a cooperation between GOTAhams and the Isle of Wight Radio Society, UK. We will celebrate the fellowship between UK and US hams with the MARCONI NET. The WG6OTA repeater on Sunset Ridge, North of Claremont, in Southern California, will be linked to the GB3IW repeater, near Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, in the UK. The KS7MC repeater (Spirit Mountain Amateur Radio Club) in Fort Mohave Arizona may also be linked during these nets. These are open repeaters, and we welcome guests. As usual, we encourage all participants to completely ignore (do not acknowledge in any way) any intentional interference during this or any other net.

The net will always start at 19:00 UTC (which is 12 noon in California and Arizona and 8pm in Cowes, UK during the summer). The net start time is specified in UTC time to avoid any confusion as U.S. Daylight Savings Time and British Summer Time change on different weekends. (In the Winter it will be; 11am in California, 12pm in Arizona, and 7pm in Cowes, UK)

No special radio programming is required, just access the WG6OTA repeater as usual and it will be linked to GB3IW.

Keep transmissions to less than 2 minutes and allow time for a FULL carrier drop (by the repeater) between transmissions. We do ask that participants pay special attention to avoid time outs.

For information about the clubs, please check out their respective web sites at:
https://gotahams.com
https://iowrs.org

For information about the net, contact: Bill Appleton, KF4MCG at kf4mcg@hotmail.com
See the maps below for information on the locations of WG6OTA and GB3IW.

Approximately 5,425 miles between repeaters.