Meetings are normally held on the first Saturday of each month.
The next meeting will be on Saturday, October 2, 1999 at 9:00
AM
at the Oakland OES; Fire Station 1; 17th St & Martin
Luther King Way.
This month's meeting will be at the new OES at Fire Station 1: Martin Luther King & 17th St. The meeting will be very short and followed by our annual Simulated Emergency Test. There will be a briefing and then participants will be dispatched around the city. During the meeting we will be visited by ORCA member John Ronan, K3ZJJ who is running for ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director. Also, Doug Wong will be doing one last photo session for RACES ID cards. After this meeting he will take a break from ID making until a large enough group can convene for this purpose. ID cards pending include ones for K6SZT, KF6UTR, KE6SAF, KD6KMU, KD6OAQ, KF6RUZ, KF6EQA, KF6GYW, KE6SAL, KF6BYG, KF6BYI, KE6MRK, WY6J, KF6CZL, KF6MPP, KB6LPB, WB6BYA, WB6BBK, K6QY, KF6CWW, KF6JRL and WB6IZE.
Starting October 10, we will be having a weekly club meeting on Sundays at 7:45 PM on the WB6NDJ Repeater 146.88 courtesy of VHF Repeaters, Inc. It will be very informal, and will encourage inexperienced hams to discuss questions about amateur radio they don't understand. Mike KB6MP will be net control on October 10, and we'll try to rotate the job among several interested people. The topic for the first week is how to program the negative offset and 77 Hz PL into your radio. If you've never been able to use your radio to check in to a net because your radio is mis-programmed, you may be able to by the end of this one. I'll be asking participants who do check in which radio they have and which buttons they use to change and enable the PL, and change the offset.
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With 3 months remaining in 1999, this newsletter will cover Y2K activities. Oakland RACES will be activated on December 31 for Y2K observation around the world. By then, the HF station at the OES will be operational with a vertical antenna. We will be listening to messages from the South Pacific and New Zealand after midnight passes the international date line, around 5 AM our time. Around noon our time, people in New Zealand will be waking up and turning on their computers - if they have power. The HF airwaves should be alive with reports of successes and failures. When midnight rolls around RACES may need to supplement communications for city services. Oakland RACES Radio Officer Jim K6JAT will spearhead the activities.
On September 21,Sgt. Clark assisted David WB6NER and Jim K6JAT in an inspection of the police 911 center for the purpose of locating a station for RACES radios. Jim and David also inspected the new OES to help plan the layout of the coax to the rooftop with city contractors. Radios yet to be installed were inventoried.
RACES will activate December 31, 1999.
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In the ORCA members newsletter. To join ORCA.
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