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Club posts and pages maintained by the Club Officers and Board Members.
Photo Album
Show and Tell
This is an open invitation for club members who have projects and accomplishments to show off! This is your chance to show off a build, a certificate, that QSL card from the Area 51 that no one believes you received.
Please send in a description, pictures and web links so we can feature your corner of Ham Radio:
KM6CFH (Juan) Go Bag Build (11-25-2019)
KM6KPW (Alan) APRS iGate
(offsite)
KM6KPW (Alan) 10 Meter Vertical Stick Dipole Antenna
Webmaster 2018
Alan Serl
KM6KPW
Webmaster
km6kpw@scrnet.com
Past Presidents
Past Presidents
| 2022 (May)- 2023 | John Salisbury | W7RSO |
| 2020-2022 (Apr) | Alan Serl | KM6KPW |
| 2019 | Mike Anderson | W6OSO |
| 2018(Feb-Dec) | Marlene Odebraski | KK6CTX |
| 2018 (Jan-Feb) | Duane Allen | KK6EE |
| 2017 | Marlene Odebraski | KK6CTX |
| 2015-2016 | Ron Braley | KE6RYX |
| 2012-2014 | Chris Maness | KQ6UP |
| 2011 | Jim Wiley | AG6EA |
| 2010 | Bob Trujillo | KG6NIB |
| 2008-2009 | Chris Maness | KQ6UP |
| 2007 | Ric Maxfield | N6RIC |
| 2005-2006 | Bob Wade | W6RTW |
| 2002-2004 | Fred Roberts | W6TKV |
| 2002-2004 | Don Williams | KD6UVT |
| 2000-2001 | George Ashby | W6RPD |
| 1998-1999 | Robert Randleman | N6CEU |
| 1997 | Ted Hudson | KQ6U |
| 1996 | Art Sutorus | KQ6HF |
| 1995 | Jerry VerDuft | AD0A |
| 1994 | David Tate | N7IGO |
| 1993 | Rich Harwick | AB4AW |
| 1992 | Nick Schmitz | N6UUL |
| 1991 | Steve Rathbone | KF6ZH |
| 1990 (Aug-Dec) | Steve Rathbone | KF6ZH |
| 1990 (Jan-Jul) | Mike Burton | N6KZB |
| 1988-1989 | Chuck Peck | KN6U |
| 1987 | John Thomas | WA6QMW |
| 1985-1986 | John Graf | AH6CL |
| 1984 | Bill DeChastain | N6AIX |
| 1983 | Al Nagle | KA6TUO |
| 1982 | Don Young | KZ6U |
| 1981 | Lee Owens | WD6DGI |
| 1980 | Lois Goodine | WB6PLR |
| 1979 | Richard W. Birbeck | K6CID |
| 1978 | Larry Botimer/Allen Sonin | WA6NVN/WA6URG |
| 1977 | Phil Blank | WB6HKX |
| 1976 | Barrie Britton | W6DX |
| 1975 | Robert Mann | W6LKN |
| 1974 | Richard Cupp | K6SJA |
| 1973 | Don Fox | K5BBM/6 |
| 1972 | Reed C. Easton | K6VHP |
| 1971 | Richard Cupp | K6SJA |
| 1969-1970 | Dave Smith | WB6SFA |
| 1968(Feb-Dec) | Bob Tremaine | W6KCD |
| 1968(Jan) | Ian Hayes | VE2ATU |
| 1967 | Bob Rice | WA6GOX |
| 1966(Sep-Dec) | Michael Desautel | W6ECD |
| 1966(Jan-Aug) | Neil Bacot | WA6QVR |
| 1965 | Patrick Murphy | WB6LOX |
| 1964 | Tom Bridges | K6DLY |
| 1963 | Bob Rice | WA6GOX |
| 1962 | Al Summers | ? |
| 1961 | Paul Hudson | WA6AVJ |
| 1959-1960 | Hal Dunagan | W6THD |
| 1958-1959 | Mark Conway | K6GUK |
| 1957-1958 | Adrian McCrosky | KB1D |
| 1956-1957 | Hal Cooper | W6PFU |
| 1955 | Ed Wellborn | W6JXM |
Riverside Mayor Proclaims “Amateur Radio Week”
City of Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey has officially proclaimed June 18 through June 24 as “Amateur Radio Week”.
RCARA is grateful to the Mayor for his support and acknowledgement of the valuable role Ham Radio plays in community service.
The Monitor Newsletter
“The Monitor” is the newsletter for the Riverside County Amateur Radio Association.
If you have a PDF copy of any issue of “The Monitor” not listed here, please forward a copy to Alan KM6KPW.
The Monitor - Ancient Archives
The Monitor 2015
The Monitor 2016
The Monitor 2017
RCARA Blood Donation Information
The Riverside County Amateur Radio Association has established a Blood Bank Account with LifeStream (formerly the Blood Bank of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties). RCARA Members and their families can draw upon this account in time of need. Our LifeStream account is identified as the Amateur Radio Association of Riverside.
The RCARA Blood Donation Coordinator is Ron Braley, KE6RYX, (951)369-5149. Please let him know when you donate blood.
Please consider a donation. You could be the first person to give someone a second chance at life.
The LifeStream blood donation locations in the Riverside Metropolitan Area are as follows:
Riverside Donor Center
4006 Van Buren Boulevard
Riverside, CA 92503
Phone: 951.687.2530
San Bernardino Donor Center
384 West Orange Show Road
San Bernardino, CA 92408
Phone: 909.885.6503
Ontario Donor Center
1959 East Fourth Street
Ontario, CA 91764
Phone: 909.987.3158
For further information on blood donation go to the LifeStream website at http://www.lstream.org/ 
W6TJ 2 Meter Net
The Riverside County Amateur Radio Association provides communications support during many Public Service Events throughout the year. A weekly net is held to foster emergency preparedness every Monday evening at 7:00 PM. The Monday night net provides bulletins of upcoming club activities and events.
For the first three Mondays of the month, we host the Net on the W6TJ club repeater. It is also possible to check into the net via the W6CDF repeater located on Box Springs Mountain which is linked to the W6TJ repeater.
- W6TJ Riverside repeater: 146.880 MHz, -600 KHz offset, PL 146.2 Hz
- W6CDF Box Springs repeater: 224.460 MHz, -1.6 MHz offset, PL 110.9 Hz
The fourth Monday of the month is a SIMPLEX net on 146.880 MHz, no offset, no PL, no squelch. This is done as practice for emergency preparedness as an exercise in being able to operate in a power outage WITHOUT the repeater.
NET Tally for Monday Night Net Results:
| April 1, 2024 | April 8, 2024 | April 15, 2024 | April 22, 2024 SIMPLEX |
April 29, 2024 | |
| Regular Check-ins: | 25 | 26 | 24 | 27 | |
| Guests/Visitors: | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| TOTAL CHECK-INS: | 28 | 28 | 25 | 28 | |
| 220 Link Check-ins: | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Echolink Check-ins: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| Marlene KK6CTX | John W7RSO | Bruce W6SOW | Jim AG6EA | John W7RSO |
2M Net Operators:
- Week 1: Marlene KK6CTX
- Week 2: John W7RSO
- Week 3: Bruce W6SOW
- Week 4: Juan AJ6PH (SIMPLEX)
- Week 5:
Club History
Harry Crawford, W6TJ
Our club station call was the call of a former member of RCARA, Harry H. Crawford, W6TJ. Crawford died on June 16, 1959, and the club acquired his call around 1960.
Shortly after graduating from Glendale High School in 1923, Harry went to work as a linotype operator for the Riverside Daily Press, the ancestor of the present Press-Enterprise. He continued to work for the Press, except for periods of military service, for the next 32 years, until shortly before his death.
W6TJ was a real old-timer, and had a considerable reputation as a DX man. He was originally licensed at age 14 in 1918 as “6TJ” (with no prefix) in Glendale, CA. (New and renewed U.S. calls were issued with prefixes for the first time in 1928.) ARRL originated the DX Century Club award in October, 1937. Early in 1939, W6TJ became the 114th station in the world to be issued the DXCC award. He was also the 11th station in the 6th call area to earn DXCC, at a time when the 6th district included Arizona, Nevada and Utah, in addition to California. Famed DXer Don Wallace, W6AM, had only 77 countries confirmed when W6TJ made DXCC.
The accompanying photo (courtesy of Dave Leaven, WI6J) shows the W6TJ shack around 1927. The transmitter, the wood-frame job on the right, appears to be using a 204-A tube, good for about half a kilowatt output on CW. (The power supply was probably under the operating bench.) The two-dial breadboard affair on the left is evidently the receiver. All home-built, of course.
Arlo Myers WA6UDR
(1/22/2008 – Updated with information provided by Gaye Funk, Harry Crawford’s Niece)
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