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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Ride for Rwanda MTB Charity Event in Ranchcho Santa Margarita, CA
https://rwandaride.com/
Ham Volunteer Sign-up
https://rwandaride.com/sheet/ham-radio-support/…
If you’re in the Southern California area, tune your ham radio to frequency 145.800 between 10PM to 10:15PM PST and have your mobile app ready to listen for a chance at capturing SSTV images from cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. The satellite moves quickly from the north just above Oregon to the south near Houston, Texas.
Another chance to receive SSTV images will be between April 11-14, 2019 per the Amstat-UK blog.
Read my previous post about how to receive images from the ISS here.…
2019 Field Day locations within Orange County, California.
Julie (KN6AOC) and I had a great time on Saturday, June 22, 2019 visiting several of the amateur field day club sites.
A presentation I did for OCRACES regarding APRS Station Tracking and Messaging
On Monday, March 16, 2020, my wife Julie and I will be the foxes hiding in a 93 square mile area of northeastern Orange County.
We will be within these boundaries:
- East of the 57 freeway.
- Generally South of Carbon Canyon Regional Park and Chino Hills State Park.
- West of the 241 and 261 toll roads.
- West of Santiago Oaks Regional Park and Irvine Regional Park.
- North of the 5 freeway.
We will begin transmitting tones on the input frequency of the OCRACES repeater which is 146.295 MHz (136.5 Hz PL), beginning at about 7:20 PM following the OCRACES weekly …
Belmont Park is located on the corner of Somerset Street and Via Escola in Orange, California. It is open from 5AM to 11PM. There are a few street parking spots.
This park could be used as a strategic point-to-point relay between this area and Coastal Peak Park in Newport Beach, California 15 miles due south.
This spot is also a good simplex relay station for other stations located in Orange, Tustin, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Irvine. Below is a map of the line of sight coverage from Belmont Park. The actual coverage …
A few weeks ago I bought the Yaesu FT3DR and the SC-39 Wires-X interface cable kit. Wires-X makes it possible for me to talk to other Ham operators all around the world while I’m at my home where the path to nearby repeaters is obstructed by hills all around. By itself, this has been a blessing to be able to talk to people outside Orange County, checking in on the current state of affairs as we all weather this COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve also experimented with taking my home setup mobile in a previous article, “Fully Mobile Digital Ham …
The USGS is now accepting DYFI reports via WinLink! Watch this video on how to do it.