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San Francisco Radio Club

The San Francisco Radio Club
​1916 - 2017

[Celeb​rating 101 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community]

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3/19/2018

 
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SFRC February Meeting is this Friday at 7pm

3/14/2018

 
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This Friday, Tim Fairbairn, AF6TF, will be presenting on the topic of "Operating Summits On The Air (SOTA)". As an avid hiker and passionate radio operator, Tim will guide us through the journey of combining nature trailing and the art of portable operation!

Tim has been into electronics since the '70's, Junior College in the early 80' and got 
Technicians AS degree in electronics. He worked at Intel during his early college years and in several electronics related jobs. Currently he is working in the audio/video industry where he is managing the wireless microphone frequencies for many customers!. 
Tim played with CBs in the 70's and 80's but due to work, family and community commitments he took a break. When his kids entered college age it was time to get back into the hobby. He initially passed the technician exam and was awarded KJ6RNN. He upgraded to general the following year. After convincing his spouse to join the hobby he also decided to aim higher and get his extra ticket. His new callsign was AF6TF. 

"I was looking for ways to operate while outdoors so when Bay-Net offered a simple hike to a local peak in a park, I was all in.  Packed up my IC7000, and 40A/H battery and some long wires I had, basically taking my home station outside!  I learned very quickly that the right choice of equipment and backpack weight were key."

Join us this Friday evening to learn what it takes to elevate your radio operation! 
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Time to renew your membership

3/13/2018

 
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March is membership drive month. The San Francisco Radio Club is now 101 years old. The oldest club in the USA operating continuously since 1916! We need every bit of your help and support to keep our club going. Your time, your ideas, your participation and your money are greatly appreciated. 

Once more this year we kept the membership fees at the same rate of $25 per person. We encourage you to take a minute and renew your membership online today.

This year we are also introducing a life membership package with pricing based on age. Members get priority access to SFRC participating events, have the ability to advertise (radio equipment) for free via the club website, have access to SFRC equipment loan library and more. So please support our club, renew your membership or donate today!
Buy your 2018 Membership

SFRC Equipment Library - New Member Service

3/12/2018

 
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No, it is not someone else's gobox. It belongs to our club. The awesome KX2 HF radio is now part of what we call the "San Francisco Radio Club Equipment Library". 

This is a dream coming true and a great benefit for the SFRC club members! In fact we have now in our possession three goboxes to loan out to our members! An HF KX2 gobox with a packtenna, a FM FT-60 gobox and a C4FM FT-70DR gobox! All in beautiful Pelican cases, self contained ready to operate! 

We are working hard to finalize the logistics around our equipment loan program but DO attend our Friday general meeting to see these goboxes up close. Over the next few weeks we will be updating our website with the loan program details.  ​

1st Annual SFRC SOTA Activation - May 12th, 2018

3/5/2018

 
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We are so doing this! So excited! ...and the view will be spectacular! Yes this is my picture, I was up there last weekend :)

It is official! May 12th will be our first, annual "San Francisco Radio Club" SOTA activation. Tim AF6TF and I (Antonis) AA6PP will be leading this effort. We are planning to combine hiking and nature trailing with setting up radio stations (both VHF/UHF & HF) and making contacts! We will most likely lead two groups of hikers (novice and advanced) to the top of Mt Tamalpais West Peak on that Saturday morning. For more information and for registration click the button below. 
Summits on the Air info & Registration

Tonight: General Meeting Talk-In NET

2/16/2018

 
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Let's make heading to our monthly meetings interactive!

We are implementing a new Talk-In/Travel NET before our General Meetings. At 6:45pm and until our General Meeting commences we will be taking checkins on our Sutro Tower 2m Repeater: 
145.150 Mhz DCS 664 (info here).

Bring your radios with you and lets make traveling to the meeting fun! 
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Tonight's Presenter - Kenneth W6KWF

2/15/2018

 
In our February general meeting, tonight, Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF, will be presenting on "Building a Communications System from Scratch: Providing Communications Support for the Wildflower Triathlon"
The Wildflower Triathlon is one of the worlds largest triathlons in the world, and requires an extensive communications system to run smoothly every year. Despite being located at Lake San Antonio where there's only one cell phone tower and a single amateur repeater in range, the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club and its alumni take on the challenge and deploy a communications system with half a dozen voice repeaters, an entire stand-alone APRS network, and a multi-console Computer-Aided Dispatch center.
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WiresX Connect/Disconnect Instructions

2/15/2018

 
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Our 2m repeater is WiresX capable. This means that you can connect it to distant repeaters, nodes or even reflectors (such as the America Link, MNWIS etc) and enjoy conversations often many thousand of miles apart. Our 2m repeater puts us on the map! 

Nevertheless this powerful feature can get in the way of running normal analogue FM NETs if not well understood. Here is what I mean; when our repeater is connected to a distant node it is connected in digital mode only. But our repeater can support both FM (analogue) and C4FM (digital) transmissions as it has been purposely set to AMS mode (automatic). Both transmissions can coexist (in serial mode). So it is very important that when we run our FM only NETs to disconnect our repeater from any distant WiresX nodes first. Equally it is important to let local digital users know that an analogue NET is about to begin. 

To make it clear, it is the responsibility of the operator who connected the repeater in the first place to disconnect it when we have a scheduled FM NET or when he/she has finished interacting with other stations or monitoring. 

Connecting to a WiresX Room
Disconnecting from a WiresX Room

Volunteers Needed - Feb 4th/2018

2/2/2018

 
35th Annual Kaiser Permanente SF Half Marathon & 5K
The San Francisco Radio Club has been invited to manage the Communications Team for the 35th Annual Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon & 5K. We will appreciate your assistance for this event, our inaugural year of participation.
More Information & Volunteer Registration
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​It all starts with YOU!

1/18/2018

 
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​On behalf of all members of the San Francisco Radio Club (SFRC), past and present, thank you for your support of amateur radio.
 
SFRC started over a century ago, driven by individuals with similar interests. They came together then, as we do now, to learn together and from each other. We encourage interest in all aspects of the hobby, and to aid our community.
 
Thank you for providing me the honor of serving as President for the 2018 year, and for providing a stellar collection of leaders to serve with on the Board of Director. We look forward to continued growth, building on the strong foundation of the oldest continuously operating amateur radio club in the world.

​The Board of Directors met recently to discuss the coming year, and are pleased to present the following objectives for 2018:
  • Secure 501(c)(3), aka “nonprofit”, status by the end of 2018. This will serve to strengthen the future of the club, by encouraging greater asset donations, and providing more resources to serve the community.
  • Increase membership and member participation. We are developing a definition of membership, underscoring the benefits, towards improving affiliation and retention rates.
    • Discounted club materials and services (i.e. name tags; license examination fees)
    • SFRC equipment loan library
    • Monthly newsletter
    • Priority access to club sponsored events
    • Eligibility to apply for lifetime membership
    • Free classified advertising on SFRC website
  • Increase awareness of SFRC and its function throughout San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.
 
None of this is possible without each and every one of you. We still need and want you to share your interests and ideas. More importantly, we need your participation, not just at the meetings and events, but also in the continued development and growth of our club. We see our role as the elected leaders is not to impose, but to facilitate.
 
We look forward to seeing you throughout the year, at all of the SFRC events!

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