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2016 ARRL Field Day

admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:29:42 +0000

Amateur Radio “Field Day” June 25 – 26 Demonstrates Science, Skill, and Service.

Members of Temple Station Hamwatch, San Gabriel Radio Club, Azusa AACES, and The San Gabriel Valley VERT will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, June 25 – 26 at Duarte Park, 1320 Bloomdale Street in Duarte.

Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend. For over 100 years, Amateur Radio — sometimes called ham radio — has allowed people from all walks of life to experiment with electronics and communications techniques, as well as provide a free public service to their communities during a disaster, all without needing a cell phone or the Internet. Field Day demonstrates ham radio’s ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and create an independent communications network.

Over 35,000 people from thousands of locations participated in Field Day in 2015. “It’s easy for anyone to pick up a computer or smartphone, connect to the Internet and communicate, with no knowledge of how the devices function or connect to each other,” said Sean Kutzko of the American Radio Relay League, the national association for Amateur Radio. “But if there’s an interruption of service or you’re out of range of a cell tower, you have no way to communicate. Ham radio functions completely independent of the Internet or cell phone infrastructure, can interface with tablets or smartphones, and can be set up almost anywhere in minutes. That’s the beauty of Amateur Radio during a communications outage.” “Hams can literally throw a wire in a tree for an antenna, connect it to a battery-powered transmitter and communicate halfway around the world,” Kutzko added. “Hams do this by using a layer of Earth’s atmosphere as a sort of mirror for radio waves. In today’s electronic do-it-yourself (DIY) environment, ham radio remains one of the best ways for people to learn about electronics, physics, meteorology, and numerous other scientific disciplines, and is a huge asset to any community during disasters if the standard communication infrastructure goes down.” Anyone may become a licensed Amateur Radio operator. There are over 725,000 licensed hams in the United States, as young as 5 and as old as 100. It’s easy for anybody to get involved right here in the San Gabriel Valley.

“The benefits of the Amateur Radio Service are many. So many times communications and infrastructure resources can quickly become taxed. The Amateur Radio Service provides a ready reserve of skilled volunteer personnel to help in safety and recovery communications. The educational opportunities in the areas of science technology engineering and math, opens the door to many possibilities for the future for our young people. The Field Day event is open to the public, come out and see what it is all about.” said Deputy Hector Figueroa of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department

For more information about Field Day, visit www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio.

2016 Temple Station Mug Run

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:09:48 +0000

Thank you to our Hamwatch Members who provided communications support for our 10k and 5k races.

An excellent job!

2016 Temple Station 10k / 5k Run

A great story about LASD Public Safety Dispatchers

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 19:06:23 +0000

https://www.facebook.com/LosAngelesCountySheriffsDepartment/videos/1245751265451784/

Enjoy this great insight in LASD Communications system

ARRL Field Day 2015

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:46:54 +0000

Temple Station Hamwatch joined together with San Gabriel Valley VERT, Sn Gabriel Valley Radio Club, and Azusa AACES to demonstrate the capabilities of Amateur Radio in emergency communications.

The used several methods of powering communications equipment without the use of commercial power.

Madre Fire

admin — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 01:00:04 +0000

Helicopter filling water for Madre Fire

Some Members of Temple Station Hamwatch are assisting with the Madre Fire. Please stay safe.

3.7 Earthquake in La Verne

admin — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:33:04 +0000

September 19 2013 at 4:44.

3.7 earthquake. Are you ready?

Temple City Christmas Parade

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:49:38 +0000

Temple Station Hamwatch will be assisting with the parade Saturday December 11. More details will follow

N6USO Repeater

n6uso — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:29:27 +0000

Hello Everyone,

This is to inform you that the N6USO Sunset Ridge Repeater System 145.440-136.5 PL repeater’s IRLP node #3718 is now working and linked FULL time IRLP Reflector 9663. This repeater covers most of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties!

This reflector channel (3) is the “Micro-Node” Reflector and belongs to the owner of www.Micro-Node.com. They are allowing us to make this reflector channel (9663) the N6USO’s reflector channel, for us to use full time for our linking with other repeaters!

Owner, Mark, K7IZA, thank you so much for all your support and allowing us to use this channel for our linking!

For those of you with repeaters/IRLP nodes that wish to link into our system, please feel free to link in via reflector 9663 any time and stay connected as long as you like! We looking for those systems around the world to link in and enjoy the hobby we all love so much and for the fun of meeting great people from around the world on our system! Feel free to share this email with your ham friends and families as you wish! There is no time limit for how long you can connect or talk on the system! All we ask is for you to leave long enough breaks between transmissions for others to join in or to be able to make a call.

The 145.440 repeater is also linked in full time with our 1.2 repeater on 1282.8250- 88.5 PL, also located on Sunset Ridge. This repeater is located at the same location as the 2 meter box and puts out 35 watts. For those of you with 1.2, this give you another option for being able to get into the system. I hope this repeater is a benefit for you the users as well.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the system.

I hope you enjoy the new changes and work that has been done to the system.

Don’t forget to join us for our Tuesday night Amateur Radio News-line Check-In net at 7:30 PM (1930 Hrs, California Time) brought to you by Hector KE6VRL who is the Net Control for the net! All IRLP/Repeaters are welcome to join the net anytime!

Once again, thanks for all your support and we hope to hear you on the air again real soon!!!!

73,

Be Safe,

Sgt. Burton Brink-N6USO

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept

Owner/Licensee of the 145.440- 136.5 (Tone) Repeater Sunset Ridge, Southern California www.n6uso.com n6uso@n6uso.com

Duarte Route 66 Parade

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:56:35 +0000

Winding down after the parade

Thanks for the great effort today

Temple Station Mug Run

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:54:34 +0000

This Saturday December 6 2008. Temple Station will be hosting it’s portion of the LASAA Mug Run Series.

Don’t forget 0700 meeting prior to deployment on the course.