Don't Forget To Put This On Your Calendar
Our Christmas Dinner and Canned Food Drive is almost here.
Receive a free raffle ticket for every two canned food items you donate.
Help is still needed at the Christmas party:
- We need members to help set up and break down tables and chairs.
- One more volunteer that can bring a cooked turkey.
- Someone to help with drinks. Sodas, coffee, etc.
- A decoration team.
- Once you have decided on how to participate; click on this LINK sign up.
Notice:
The County will be renovating the building we normally use for our VE testing.
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 to follow, as soon as details have been confirmed.
Our meeting location is at East Bakersfield Veterans Hall 2101 Ridge Rd.
On the corner of Mount Vernon & Ridge Road
(Across from Heritage Park)
Would you like to get your Amateur Radio license?
Our next testing session is March 14th, 2025
Testing begins at 6:30 PM.
Click here for more information
If you are planning on taking one or more test;
please contact Larry (KM6OQI) at websurfer@bak.rr.com
in advance,so all of the materials are ready for you.
W6LIE 145.150 -600 / EchoLink W6LIE-R /487530 / AllStar #603051
Club Nets
Sunday Night Net, 8:00 pm
ARES Net, Monday at 7:00pm
Tech Net, Tuesday at 7:00pm
Rock Harbor Net, Sunday at 6:00pm
All on our local club repeater, 145.150 -600
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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Information about the
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 volunteer. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in the ARRL or any other organization, is eligible for membership in ARES. Click here to visit the Western Kern County ARES web page. ARES nets are held every Monday evening at 1900 local time, on the two W6LIE repeaters of 146.910-pl 100 and 145.150-pl 100. Then check-ins are taken on simplex frequencies and other bands and modes.
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