Cedar Creek Park Eastvale

“Radio in the Park” Saturday, May 18th, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Cedar Creak Park, Eastvale, CA.

We meet in the North section of the park, between Everglades Street and Cedar Creak Road. You can park on Cedar Creak Road or Everglades Street and there is a parking lot at approximately 6676 Everglades St.

Monitor the WG6OTA repeater for last minute changes due to park conditions. If you don’t find us, call for, “any GOTAhams at the park” on the repeater and someone will come back with the info you need.

Bring a radio or just come to meet up with us. Either way bringing water and a chair is highly recommended. Also, this park has little shade, so pop-ups are a good idea too.

If you are setting up a station see the Safety sheet:  GOTAhams Park Safety2024-05-11 

For those wondering what “Radio in the Park” is click on this link – What is “Radio in the Park” – GOTAhams

Join us for our GOTAhams monthly Simplex Net

New 6:15pm starting time this month.

Wednesday, April 24th, at 6:15PM – 146.580MHz

The Simplex Net will be hosted by Eric, KN6NRQ. 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. Eric 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.