Amazon Smiles

image_pdfimage_print

For Club Members

The AmazonSmile Foundation recently surpassed $200 million in donations to charities worldwide! Our thanks go out to you, Calaveras Amateur Radio Society Inc supporters, and every supporter who shops at smile.amazon.com. Hands holding Amazon box full of hearts and confetti This is a great moment to remind your supporters to continue generating donations for Calaveras Amateur Radio Society Inc by shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0203952. AmazonSmile has donated over $200 million to charities worldwide! You can help increase AmazonSmile

donations to Calaveras Amateur Radio Society Inc by shopping at smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0203952 or with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app.

image_pdfimage_print

ARRL HQ Message

image_pdfimage_print

SB QST @ ARL $ARLB023 ARLB023 Northern Florida ARES Requests Clear Frequencies for HF Nets ZCZC AG23 QST de W1AW ARRL Bulletin 23 ARLB023 From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT September 16, 2020 To all radio amateurs SB QST ARL ARLB023 ARLB023 Northern Florida ARES Requests Clear Frequencies for HF Nets Northern Florida Section Emergency Coordinator Karl Martin, K4HBN, is requesting that stations not directly involved in the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) response to Hurricane Sally please avoid 3.950 MHz (primary) and 7.242 MHz (backup). ARES has activated in four Northern Florida counties. Shelters are open, and power and telecommunications outages are widespread, Martin reports. NNNN /EX

image_pdfimage_print

FEMA Interoperability Channels

image_pdfimage_print

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced that two 60-meter channels have been made available, as necessary, for interoperability between US Government stations and US amateur radio stations involved in emergency communications related to the wildland firefighting response in California, Oregon, and Washington, and to Hurricane Sally. These interoperability channels will remain active until the need for these channels no longer exists: Channel 1 — primary voice traffic 5332 kHz channel center, 5330.5 kHz USB voice Channel 2 — digital traffic 5348 kHz channel center, 5346.5 kHz USB with 1.5-kHz offset to center of digital waveform. Frequencies may be modified or added to by FEMA Region 10 for their area or operations due to existing 5-MHz/60-meter interoperability plans for their region. Amateur radio is secondary on the 5-MHz band and should yield to operational traffic related to wildland firefighting and hurricane response. Although the intended use for these channels is interoperability between federal government stations and licensed US amateur radio stations, federal government stations are primary users and amateurs are secondary users. The Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) is following FEMA’s lead on the interoperability channel designations for the wildfire and hurricane response. Army MARS Program Manager Paul English, WD8DBY, says he has alerted all MARS members of the FEMA channel designations and MARS members are prepared to support response efforts as needed. FacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditMore Photo Gallery

image_pdfimage_print

ARES/RACES

image_pdfimage_print
Hello XCA ARES, It looks like power is being restored in the county. I only see some small outages along the Hwy 4 corridor. I hope all of you are doing well and your equipment functioned correctly. As for the West Point repeater, it was off the air on Tue morning at around 05:30, the backup generator stop running due to an exhaust issue. Seems that a scheduled maintenance on this is do at 250 hours, the system had 248 runtime hours when it stopped. Power was restored at the site at 11:30 today. If anyone has put in some time working this PSPS please log it on the ARES Connect website. I have created an event for this reason. 73, Sam – WS6P ARES Emergency Coordinator – Calaveras County RACES Radio Officer – Calaveras County Hm: (209) 293-4010 1st Net Cell: (209) 418-9207 W6WPT Repeater 440.100 + T100 WIRES-X node 33432

image_pdfimage_print