Riverside County Amateur Radio Association
Serving Hams in the Inland Empire of Southern California since 1955
Club posts and pages maintained by the Club Officers and Board Members.
New RCARA club items are available from our Teespring store –
https://teespring.com/stores/rcara-gear
There are t-shirts, hoodies and stickers available with the black and yellow Riverside County Amateur Radio Association logo emblazoned on the back.
Additional items have been suggested such as keychain fobs and refrigerator magnets. We are looking to source those as well.
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association
Elected Officers for the Year 2021
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President km6kpw @ scrnet.com |
Vice-President
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Treasurer jameswiley757 @ gmail.com |
Open Position Secretary
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Ron Braley KE6RYX Director of Communications (951) 369-5149
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 Carrie Smith N6LMA
Director of Membership jjschina @ hotmail.com |
Appointed Positions for 2021
Pending Sunshine Chair |
 Rick Schirmer KK6CTT
Photographer rngr86 @ juno.com |
 Alan Serl KM6KPW
Webmaster km6kpw @ scrnet.com |
Our club, Riverside County Amateur Radio Association has existed for 65 years and there are several awards that our club has achieved. Many of those awards have gone unclaimed and the efforts of our past members have gone unrecognized.
If there are any additional awards that should be posted for RCARA, please notify Alan Serl KM6KPW at km6kpw @ scrnet.com.
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association is a member of eQSL.cc and actively reports QSO’s from members using the club call sign. Please forward contact logs made using the club callsign to the webmaster so the contacts can be claimed (ADIF export prefered)
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association Field Day 2020
Here is the picture slideshow from Field Day 2020
Updated Q&A from the ARRL about club totals – (PDF or Original Article)
Members operating from home, please remember to include “RIVERSIDE COUNTY AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION” (NOT “RCARA” or “W6TJ”) on your submission. See the ARRL COVID-19 2020 Waver document for more information
We may have to be away from each other but that does not mean we have to be out of reach!
Stay Safe and keep making contacts!
During the 2020 COVID-19 isolation lockdown the Ham Radio community has seen the need to continue with VE testing. New licensees testing for their Tech license as well as those upgrading their license ticket while they have time to study.
The Greater Los Angeles Amateur Radio Group VEC has created a protocol for VE remote testing. Below are two documents contributed by our members that are VE’s participating in the GLARG testing:
Remote VE Testing Short Overview and the Long Version.
Study hard and when you are ready to test, get on the GLARG’s calendar.
Thank you to Doug (KK6D) and Jim (AG6EA) for filling in the blanks!
To the RCARA members,
Holy cow, we did it! This thing really worked!
Thank you all who made this “Meeting on the Air” a success. We had a good working check in round and an even better round of discussion about the 2020 Field Day. The discussion for all the ideas worked out great with members contributing to all sides of Field Day in world where we all have to live in our own isolation bubble.
I want to say a sincere “Thank You” to the members that pointed out the faults and flaws in some of the ideas brought up – “It’s easy to stay quiet and go with the flow but pointing out the bad idea and why it’s a bad idea is honestly just as important. Sometimes more so.”
Thank you Rick KK6CTT for turning the “Parking Lot Picnic” into the “Mobile Simplex Breakfast“. You turned a good intentioned idea into a working Ham Radio exercise that we can still keep as a social event within the club. Please join us this Saturday (Apr 11, 2020) for breakfast in your driveway!
73!
Alan KM6KPW
New time for this Net is 11:30 AM
Formerly the Simplex Social Breakfast Net, the Net Controller for this net has had to move the time up from its original time slot so much that we’re just going to call it a Brunch Net…
Please join us on the third Saturday of the month for a for a social simplex breakfast Net! Grab your coffee and bagel or other breakfast items, get on your rig and be social! Our original Net plan is to be a round robin Net with relays from operators that are able to hear a weak signal and pass on the traffic where possible.
This Net will be a once a month Saturday morning Net to hone your Amateur Radio skills in Simplex communications. The frequency being used will rotate from month to month, please see the frequency plan below.
Take a break, grab your coffee and join us on the air!
When: The third Saturday of the month at 11:30 AM
Where: Your choice
How: Simplex mode – No offset / No PL tone / No Squelch
Send topic suggestions to: km6kpw @ scrnet.com
Monthly Frequency Plan
| Month | Band | Frequency | Coordinator |
| January | 70 CM | 446.00 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| February | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| March | 70 CM | 446.00 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| April | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| May | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| June | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| July | 70 CM | 446.00 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| August | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| September | 70 CM | 446.00 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| October | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| November | 70 CM | 446.00 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
| December | 2 M | 147.510 Mhz | Alan KM6KPW |
Additional Net Coordinators are needed! If you are interested in hosting a net, please notify Alan (KM6KPW) or any other Board member know.
Below is a PDF version of the slides that were presented at the February 2020 meeting.
EchoLink software and documentation can be found at echolink.org
Alternative radio control software that was discussed was called RCForbs (Server and Client) and can be found at remotehams.com
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association
Elected Officers for the Year 2020
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President km6kpw @ scrnet.com |
Vice-President coyotegrad @ gmail.com |
Treasurer jameswiley757 @ gmail.com |
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Secretary malbanese @ dslextreme.com
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Ron Braley KE6RYX Director of Communications (951) 369-5149
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 Marlene KK6CTX
Director of Membership xmadamxx @ aol.com |
Appointed Positions for 2020
Pending Sunshine Chair |
Rick Schirmer KK6CTT
Photographer rngr86 @ juno.com |
Alan Serl KM6KPW
Webmaster km6kpw @ scrnet.com |
Here are some of the Ham License Study Guides that our club members have found useful:
Register with the Federal Communications Commission to obtain your FRN number. Every Amateur Radio Operator needs to have a FRN at the test time.
The practice exams on eHam.net are up to date pools of questions. This is great for checking your readiness for a real test.
This is a great practice test app. Webmaster comment – “I used this to study for the General exam on lunches and breaks at work”
Juan Meja AJ6PH
