San Francisco Radio Club

September General Meeting - 9/20

9/17/2019

We are super excited to announce that Bruce Hunter, KG6OJI, will be joining us this Friday to talk about the Voice of America's Greenville Transmission and Training Center during the last years of the Cold War. This is going to be a presentation using a 35mm film projector, definitely the one not to miss!

Prior to joining Voice of America, Bruce spent twenty-three years working for KSFO, when it was owned by Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters. During World-War-Two the station's previous owners ran studios and high-frequency transmitters for the Office of War Operations, via KWID and KWIX, as part of a service that eventually became Voice of America. Several co-workers and friends of Bruce worked on this wartime service. So later when VOA invited Bruce to join the staff at Greenville, he knew who they were!

Bruce's amateur radio interests are largely focused on millimeter-wave microwave technology.

Starter DMR Codeplugs for W6PW posted

9/7/2019

To help our friends get on the air quickly we have pre-built a set of codeplugs with the W6PW repeater channels for the following radios so far: Motorola XPR7550(e), XPR6550, XPR5550(e), SL7550(e), Anytone 878UV, Connect Systems CS580 and CS750, Alinco DJ-MD5.

If you have a radio that is not in the list above and you need help let us know. If you have a radio not in the list but able to program it please send us a starter codeplug to post here and help other hams getting on the air faster.

Get Starter Codeplugs

New Ham? Need Help Programming your Radio?

8/30/2019

Here are the 7 steps to success!!!

1. Program our Repeater into one of your channels, info
2. Join our Slack channel and ask for help, join here
3. Join our mailing list, info
4. Get on the air & introduce yourself on our Sutro VHF repeater, info
5. Check in/Listen to our Monday 8pm NET, info
6. Attend our General Meetings, info
7. Attend one of the Critical Mass meetings, info
8. Consider becoming a member, info
9. Don't be shy, the community is here to help!
10. Give us your feedback, here!

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Join our SFRC Slack Community!

8/29/2019

Today we are pleased to announce that the San Francisco Radio Club will be opening Slack to our members and friends. We have been using Slack for over 3 years to run our board meetings and we feel that the time is now to use this tool to enable better collaboration between us and our club friends. So JOIN our Slack channel today!!!

Join the SFARC mailing list

8/17/2019

If you haven't been receiving our club emails, fill the form below and we will add you into our list.

If you have previously subscribed but not receiving emails from us check your "filter folders" like Promotions, Spam etc in case your email provider has filtered us out of your inbox.

2019 2M FM QSO Party on 8/24/2019

8/9/2019

This year's 2M QSO Party is coming up. This year, the event will be on 8/24/2019 from 10AM to 2PM. Follow the button below for details.

2019 2M FM QSO Party

July General Meeting - Friday 19th at 7pm.

7/18/2019

This is a friendly reminder to let you know that tomorrow, Friday, July 19th, we will be hosting our General Meeting at the VA Hospital, building 7 Auditorium. Be there at 7pm! We have a ton of good stuff to cover and of course socialize! So come early, bring your radios and share your stories.

July Presentation
This Friday, our own, John Gates, KB6KM will be presenting on best communication practices when using repeater systems. Bring your HT, and let's make this an interactive meeting! Have all your questions answered!

Hot off the press: 2019 Field Day Photos

6/24/2019

Via Reddit and James Duffy N6DUF some 2019 Field Day photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dffy/albums/72157709224726971

San Francisco Marathon - SFRC Volunteers are needed

6/13/2019

The San Francisco Radio Club has been invited to manage the Communications Team for the 2019 San Francisco Marathon, and we will appreciate your assistance this year. We need ~30 people to run this event. No previous experience is required. This is a great opportunity for new ham operators to participate and learn and support our club and the community. Click below for more information to the register.

More information and Registration

W6PW DMR Repeater is Live!

6/8/2019

What can I say, we asked for your help, you responded in record time and helped us exceed our goal. Now we are happy to say that "we have delivered"!!! From an idea to reality in 2 weeks and 3 days! This is unprecedented!

Our new DMR repeater, replacing our UHF C4FM one, is on the Air, connected to the BrandMeister Network!

Repeater details:

Model: Motorola SLR5700
Frequency: 444.225MHz +5KHz Offset
Color Code: cc1
TS1: NorCal
TS2: 311040 (This is the W6PW TalkGroup), 310604 (Carla Orinda UHF), 31075 (BayNET), Local Repeater TG9

W6PW BrandMeister Information: click here

We are in the process of writing a policy around its use. For instance we don't want it connected to talkgroups like TG310 or Worldwide causing the repeater to transmit 24/7, thus locking everyone else from using it. We want to ensure that everyone can enjoy this new machine, whether local or remote, but also be mindful to other repeaters in the Bay Area sharing the same frequency pair. Finally this repeater now becomes another tool for SFRC to run successful events and be used in case of emergency. Policy details to come.

Again, a huge thanks to all of you for making this a reality and remember, if you need help, advice on radios, advice with programming etc we are here to help. We are not experts, we are learning too, but we are happy to assist as much as we can.

Antonis, AA6PP + Board Team

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