Welcome to the Kern County Amateur Radio Club - W6LIE
For Distinguished Service and Excellence in Amateur Radio for the Year 2024
We Congratulate Our Ham of the Year
Arlyss Feil, N6INT
Thank you to everyone who attended our 2024 Christmas Party. It was a great evening. Everyone had a nice time and it was good to see the faces behind the call signs! To those members who could not attend, you were missed and we will see you next year. We also would like to thank those who volunteered their time and efforts to make this a nice evening for everyone.
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Come out to the Burger King on Columbus Ave this Saturday December 21st at 11am.
Join Terry, N6AJ as he explains how to receive slow scan pictures from the ISS.
The Space Station will be sending pictures from December 25th thru January 5th
Bring your HT and learn how to get a QSL card and certificate for making contact with the station.
~ Club Event ~
Winter Field Day 2025
January 25th 2025
Winter Field Day 2025
CQ, CQ, CQ... Everyone Welcome
Come watch amateur radio operators
- Set up a field station & antennas
- Contact people around the country
- Operate voice, digital and Morse code
- Test their equipment and abilities
- Practice emergency skills
Everyone is welcome to stop by, ask questions, and learn about the hobby of amateur radio.
Setup: 07:00 hrs
On the Air: 08:00 - 14:00 hrs
Location: Bakersfield Sports Village Picnic Area
9001 Ashe Road - on the corner of Ashe Road and Taft Hwy.
Read the Winter Field Day Rules Here
Notice:
The County will be renovating the building we normally use for our VE Test Sessions, so our January 10th test session has been cancelled. Testing will resume March 14th.
Our next club meeting is January 23rd, 2025
General meeting starts at 7:00 pm. If you need to contact us by phone; please call (661) 412-2859
Our meeting location: East Bakersfield Veterans Hall 2101 Ridge Rd, Corner of Mt, Vernon & Ridge Rd. (Across from Heritage Park)
Due to the renovations at the Veteran's Hall.
Our January meeting will temporarily be moved, but will return in February.
More information about our January meeting location as soon as details have been confirmed.
Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is part of the Amateur Radio Relay League’s (ARRL) extensive volunteer field organization dedicated to public service.
ARES is comprised of amateur radio operators who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in the ARRL or any other organization, is eligible for membership in ARES.
ARES nets are held every Monday evening at 1900 hrs local time, on the two W6LIE repeaters of 146.910-pl 100 and 145.150-pl 100.
President’s message
Greetings fellow Hams, It’s hard to believe the year is almost over. Only 139 shopping days till Christmas (as of this writing). Looking back over the last several months we have done a lot of radio! Two Field Days, Two POTA Support Your Parks Events and the 75th Anniversary Party and there is more to come. At our next meeting there will be a presentation on Yagi antenna theory followed by an antenna build workshop. We will also have a Fox Hunt, and the DX Academy will be in the upcoming months with the Autumn Support your Park event in October and don’t forget the Spooktacular also we have a group learning CW. All of these are great opportunities to get together and be “Radio Active”. I would like to encourage all of you to get involved in any of the upcoming events; as one of our club members stated to me “when you’re with friends sometimes radio comes second”. How true, our hobby makes this world a bit smaller and were ever you may travel you have a fellow Ham there to talk to. As we get close to the end of the year, I would encourage you to consider getting more involved in the operation of the club. Maybe there is a committee you would like to serve on or maybe run for a Board position. Do you have an idea for a presentation or workshop? Please let me know, I would love to talk to you about it. In a continuous effort to provide Club members with the best possible access to local frequencies as well as opening the doors to a world of new radio contacts’; we are happy to inform you that as of today August 10, 2024; we have accomplished a big step on this effort. We have completed the process of equipment modernization and have locally installed all the necessary EchoLink and Allstar hardware systems; as well as jumping from CAT to Fiber optic. Thus, increasing contact speeds and greatly improving system stability. For your information, the Club no longer will be using the Allstar #2029 Node number as it was also necessary to update it as a part of the modernization process, from now on we will be using the Allstar #603051
The updated information for the EchoLink and Allstar nodes is as follows: Echolink #W6LIE-R 487530 / Allstar #603051
We would like to thank those involved in this process: K6GTA, KR6DK, K6RET, KD6PAP, N6INT, KN6NOC, KB6WR, N7LWB, N6ABT and KN6SCN. We apologize if we have missed someone, but be known that your help was invaluable.
Until we talk again,
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