Welcome to the web site of the Amador County Amateur Radio Club, a club of knowledgeable, interesting, and helpful people!

Here you can find information about Amateur Radio and our club here in Northern California.

You are welcome to browse the content and contact us with your questions through this web site or on our repeaters.

Our repeaters are open. On VHF, you can find us at 146.835 MHz, minus offset, 100 Hz PL.
On UHF, you can find us at 441.525 MHz, plus offset, 100 Hz PL. Both repeaters transmit 100 Hz PL,
so you may use PL decode on your receiver, if you like.

Our weekly net is on Tuesday evenings, 7:30PM on both repeaters.Visitors are always welcome.

Lastly, our meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 7PM. Please see the Schedule of events
to the left of this page for details about our upcoming meeting.

Thanks for stopping by and we hope to meet you sometime.

73s!

Paul Keeton - KI6LZC, Club President

Over 25 members, friends, visitors and guests were involved in this years Field Day exercise. It was a great day to be out in the woods participating in the emergency preparedness part of our hobby. Oh, and did I miss mentioning eating - it was a great day for that as well. Profound thanks go to Greg KI6QLE and Dave KB6PNT for making the preparations, securing the location, and setting the stage for a great event. The day started out with the Sacramento Sierra Disaster Services of the Red Cross coming on site and making a great pancake breakfast. With everyone energized work commenced on putting up the antennas. Two wire antennas were put in place, with the help of Dave's compressed air tennis ball launcher (which worked really well). A little after noon the stations were on the air. We had three stations  in operation. Two were in the OES communications trailer and they worked VHF simplex (at 6,400 feet that works) and digital (BPKS31) on 40 meters. Chuck set up a station in a shady spot and that station worked voice on 20 meters. Final figures are not in but the stations were all busy in spite of some marginal conditions on 40 meters. Lunch was prepared, again by the wonderful volunteers from Red Cross, allowing everyone time to enjoy some socialization as well. Visitors included Sheriff Ryan, Lynne Olson, and Ron Murdock (SV Section Manager) as well as a couple of people who drove up just to find out about the hobby and get information on how to obtain a license. As the afternoon progressed, the smell of a bar-b-que was waifting through the trees signaling that the operating day was coming to a close. All in all it was a great day, with great weather, in a beautiful location.

Pictures from the day are below. You may also click here to watch a short video of Dave's Tennis Ball Launcher in action. The clip is rather large, so please give it a couple minutes to download to your computer.

It was a beautiful, sunny May Saturday that found members of the Amador County Amateur Club showing-up at the American Legion Ambulance training room to build and test their very own T-Hunt antenna.

Dave Nicholson, KB6PNT, collected a bunch of materials and tools to help all who wanted to build a tape-measure two-meter yagi to be used for T-Hunt activity. A little PVC pipe, a few pieces of tape measure, some coax and a little help came together for seven folks.

By noon, the antennas were complete and the hunt was on. Chuck Bland, NA6BR, disappeared with the "Fox" to hide it. About 15 minutes after the start, George Cusack was first on-scene and started looking on foot. About 10 minutes later, others started to trickle in. This also ended-up being a bit of a spectator sport, as the transmitter was hidden near the Argonaut High School FFA Pig Pen. Thankfully, Chuck did not hide the transmitter inside the fenced area.

Everyone had fun in the build and the hunt, and much was learned about how to look for a hidden transmitter.  Two more events are scheduled for this year, July 17th and August 14. Come on out and join in. Anyone can try this with the simplest of equipment.

Take a look at the pictures.