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UPCOMING EVENTS

Field Day is coming!  This is our annual summer ham radio extravaganza: disaster preparedness drill, emergency communications exercise, radio contest, camp-out, antenna workshop, social get-together and combat cookery exercise all in one.  The event will start on Friday afternoon, June 22, with antenna raising, station set-up and other perparations. We will have a pizza dinner that evening.  Saturday morning at 11:00 local time the event officially begins with our stations on the air making contacts around the country and beyond.  The event runs for 24 hours untill 11:00 AM local time on Sunday.  Durning that time we will be serving meals for operators and visitors (contributions requested), getting visitors on the air, and of course, making lots of radio contacts.

The location is the same as in years past: The Sequioa Arena in Joaquin Miller Park off of Skyline Blvd. in the Oakland Hills.  See the link below for a Google map.

Map to Field Day Site

The June membership meeting will be held on Saturday, June 2 at 9 AM at the usual place.  The meeting topic will be (what else?) Field Day preparations and the discussion will be lead by Bob, KE6IUE.

You can now listen to the 440 MHz repeater (including the EchoIRLP node) on your computer via live audio streaming over the internet.  Follow the link below to listen in:
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=10152

The Meeting and Events Schedule has been revised with 2012 information.  Click here or see the link in the left column ("Meeting and Events Schedule").

Meetings are held the first Saturday of each month (except July) at 9:00 AM in the media room of Oakland Fire Station No. 1 located at 1605 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (between 16th and 17th Streets) in Oakland.

Map to Fire Station No. 1 Map

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For further membership, site information or suggestions, please email me, Tom Tazelaar  (KG6MAC), at tazelaar <at> yahoo <dot> com.

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The Newsletter editor is David Otey, WB6NER. Please send articles to him at WB6NER <at> arrl <dot> net.

ORCA is an ARRL affiliated club.

Site Last Revised: 5/6/2012