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.
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association
Elected Officers for the Year 2022
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President president@w6tj.org |
Vice-President vp@w6tj.org |
Treasurer treasurer@w6tj.org |
Madeleine Haase Secretary
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Ron Braley KE6RYX Director of Communications (951) 369-5149
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Bruce Spieler W6SOW
Director of Membership membership@w6tj.org |
Appointed Positions for 2021
Pending Sunshine Chair |
 Rick Schirmer KK6CTT
Photographer
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 Alan Serl KM6KPW
Webmaster
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July 12, 2021
Hi All,
This virus has been a real kick in the backside, hasn’t it! I for one am very glad to be seeing lockdowns and quarantine restrictions moving into our rearview mirror.
We planned the 2021 Field Day with the possibility that the COVID restrictions might be extended which translated into a one day park event without our normal banners, advertising and public table. Although we kept a lowered profile we still had a few visitors. John (W7RSO) made his chili and while the “secret ingredient” still needed to steam off it was darn good!
For the first time in over a year, we have had an in person meeting. We had to change our venue but the feedback I’ve received from the members in attendance was encouraging. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the Riverside Seventh Day Baptist Church for the use of their Fellowship Hall.
We covered planning of the club’s upcoming 66th Anniversary and Carrie (N6LMA) gave us a great presentation on Net Etiquette.
Please join us for the August meeting to help celebrate 66 years of Ham Radio in Riverside County! Watch your email for an RSVP from Juan (AJ6PH), we need to know how much pizza we need to order. We will have a “show and tell” so bring out your projects and brag about your endeavours!
73
Alan / KM6KPW
Riverside County Amateur Radio Association Meetings
As the pandemic restrictions draw to a close, our in-person meetings are scheduled to resume starting July. Our final Zoom only meeting will be June 10th. An email containing the meeting number and passcode will be sent out in the first week of June to all current members.
If you are not a member or are not receiving our emails, please contact us at president@w6tj.org and the meeting info will be sent to you.
Meetings are held at the Riverside Seventh Day Baptist Church on the 2nd Thursday of each month beginning at 7:00 PM
Riverside Seventh Day Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
5901 Chicago Ave
Riverside, CA 92506
Park behind the church and use the rear entrance.
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
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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
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
Juan Meja AJ6PH
