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May 13th, 2012 by Clare KE7WQY

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SJCARS RADIO COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT EVENT OPPORTUNITY

May 4th, 2012 by Peter

THE 2012 SAN JUAN ISLAND MARATHON
Sunday, June 3, 2012 from 7:00 am until 3:00 pm
Required Qualifications: SJCARS Affiliation, + FCC: Tech, General
or Advanced License.

Come join the fun providing support communications for the 2012 San Juan Island Marathon. You’ll bring your mobile rig and/or HT to pre-assigned locations on the marathon course. You’ll coordinate with event net control. You’ll be on station at assigned locations on the course indicating the marathon’s progress by identifying the first and last runners in the marathon and half marathon to net control. You’ll field safety communications requests from runners and observers to net control. Above all you will convey any and all safety considerations to net control who has direct and immediate access to EMS dispatch during this event.

This is an excellent practice for emergency communications if communications were interrupted in our county. Anyone with an Amateur Radio license affiliated with SJCARS is encouraged and absolutely welcome to participate. NEW HAMS ARE ESPESCIALLY ENCOURAGED. It’s honestly easy; and a really good way to hook up with our SJCARS team; for you to practice in providing coverage of the county in the event of emergency communications. It’s very good practice and it’ll bring you up to speed really quickly.

Participants will be awarded a T-Shirt (and the possibility of food festivities depending upon chonographical assignment duties on the course.)
Please comment with your willingness to participate (or just comment) and indicate your email address for follow up for your station assignments as you are willing. Please include the times during the event you are available.

Respectfully Submitted
Frank (KD7IRE)

INFO: SJIMARATHON.COM

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Website Updates

May 1st, 2012 by Peter

The maps of locations of fire stations in San Juan County are now available on this site:

Look in Files>Emergency Information for this information.

I’ve also updated the Roll Call and supplied both a PDF and a text file for those who like to follow the checkins on a computer.

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Peter

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Orcas Phones Down Hams Up

Apr 29th, 2012 by KG6GEU

Orcas Island lost phone service last thursday morning. No voice, no cell, no 911.

Wayne manned Eastsound Fire and set up a phone patch to Bryan on San Juan for Centurylink service personnel.

Within an hour Peter and Jim manned Doe Bay and Deer Harbor while Bryan and Ed went to dispatch, establishing an Orcas to San Juan County Dispatch link.

Heres the story from the Journal

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D-Star on the move

Apr 28th, 2012 by KG6GEU

Ed and I checked out Ted’s location and it looks perfect. I need volunteers for a work party to move the D-Star repeater. I have all of the raw materials. We need to hang an Antenna, butt conectors on feedline etc.

I’d like to do it the week of the 7th before the club meeting. Ed will be out of town, but I will be heading up the operation. Let me know if you’d like to be involved.

KG6GEU

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Care to Comment?

Apr 24th, 2012 by KG6GEU

Stu Salot, W7UW forwards this request for information.

Hello,

We are looking to change our radio system at the college. We would like to know if anyone have preference over digital vs analog radio, type of radio, advantages and disadvantages, etc..

Thank you,

Wayne Phan
Academic Dean’s Office | Facilities & Campus Service
wayne dot phan at pomona dot edu

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World Amateur Radio Day

Apr 18th, 2012 by Peter

From the Slashdot Mailing list:

“There are over 700,000 ham radio licensees in the USA and about 2 ½ million worldwide. Today, this international community of wireless communications devotees are celebrating World Amateur Radio Day, recalling the advances Amateur Radio Service has made for modern man. Their theme for 2012 is Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years in Space in remembrance of the launch of the first Amateur Radio satellites OSCAR 1 on December 12, 1961 and the launch of OSCAR 2 on June 2, 1962. Their ranks have included people like Steve Wozniak of Apple and Jack Kilby who invented the integrated circuit, Dr. Karl William Edmark who invented the heart defibrillator, Scott Durchslag, the Chief Operating Officer at Skype, and Dr. John Grunsfeld of NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope. This is the 87th anniversary of the foundation.”