Welcome to the web site of the Escondido Amateur Radio Society.
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society (EARS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of educational benefit to amateur radio operators, and others interested in amateur radio within Escondido and surrounding areas.
Membership is affordable, come join the fun!
Please feel free to browse this website for information on EARS activities past & present, and other general information on amateur radio.
You are also welcome to join the discussion groups on Yahoo! and Google - links are provided at the bottom of this page.
See below for meeting and membership details, or click on the following quick links...
For anyone wishing to take their amateur radio test, or upgrade their current licence - There is a Volunteer Exam session in Escondido on the last Saturday of each month. Click the link for more details.
Next meeting: USS Midway, by Joe Garza, AB6RM. Thursday, Sept 9th.
Joe has been a volunteer on the USS Midway Museum for over 5 years, being the lead for restoration of several radio rooms on the Museum and activation of Midway ham radio station NI6IW three years ago.
Joe is also a volunteer at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, leading the activation and trustee of ham radio station NS6OI on board the 3 masted barque Star of India, Submarine Museums USS Dolphin and Soviet Foxtrot Class B-39 Cobra.
Joe's presentation will be about the great experiences of being a Midway volunteer and restoring the Midway Museum radio rooms and antenna systems as well as operating ham station NI6IW.
He will also cover some of the ongoing volunteer radio work and operations on several ships of the Maritime Museum of San Diego.
It should be a most excellent evening... We hope to see you all there!
IN THE NEWS: ARRL Southwestern Division Convention 2010.
Save the dates...
In case you didn't know - the ARRL convention Southwestern Division Convention is going to be held in San Diego this year:
September 17th-19th.
For more details, please see the ad below, or visit the SANDARC website.
EARS has volunteered to help with vendor services at the convention this year, so if there are any EARS members who are able to provide assistance with this valuable service, please contact our SANDARC representative:
Ron Rosson, N6XT.
E-mail: ron@n6xt.org
Phone: (760) 749-1239
The vendor schedule is as follows:
- Friday 17th - 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Saturday 18th - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Sunday 19th - 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon.
Note: Volunteers will not have to pay the convention admission (registration), but unless they do, they will not be eligible to purchase any hourly or grand prize raffle tickets.
Opportunity Drawing:
Those of you who were at June's club meeting will know that Teri Bloom (W6TRB) was the lucky winner of the $130 HRO gift certificate.
Well done Teri!
Next up we have not one - but two prizes on offer:
- Diawa CN-101L cross needle SWR & power meter. It covers 1.8MHz to 150MHz, & can handle upto 1.5KW
- Diamond MR77S dual band mag-mount antenna. It covers both 144 & 430MHz upto 70W. This version has an SMA connector, so you can easily connect your handi-talki while in your vehicle.
The rules for the drawing:
- Tickets will only be available at EARS meetings - from 7:00 to 7:30, and then again after the presentation(s).
- Only current EARS members are eligible to purchase tickets - but please feel free to join!
- Once the cost of the prize has been reached (+20%), the drawing will
take place.
Note: The owner of the drawn ticket does not have to be present to win. - The cost of the tickets are $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00, or 15 for $10.00.
Each ticket consists of two parts: One part to be retained by the purchaser, and the other to be returned to the drawing organizer.
The ticket purchaser must ensure that their name or call sign is CLEARLY marked on EACH of the ticket halves returned to the drawing organizer.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact the drawing organizer.
Membership details:
Membership runs from January 1st to December 31st. The fees are shown below.
Regular membership:
- Annual - $15.00
- Lifetime - $150.00
Family membership:
- Family annual - $4.00 for each additional family member.
- Family Lifetime - $38.00 for each additional family member.
A pdf version of the membership application form can be downloaded by clicking on the image of the brochure above.
It can also be found in the latest issue of 'ALL EARS', the EARS newsletter - available to download in the General section on the left.
Mail your completed application form to:
EARS,
PO Box 3243,
Escondido,
CA 92033
The EARS Articles of Association can be found here.
The EARS By-Laws can be found here.
If you would like more info on membership of EARS, or on Ham Radio in general - send us an email at: membership@earsclub.org
Repeater and EARS Net information:
EARS operates 3 voice radio repeaters in the Escondido area as well as a Voice-over-IP Echo Link node 2846:
- 146.88 MHz, minus offset, PL 107.2 (also connected to the Echo Link node).
- 224.14 MHz (AE6GM repeater), minus offset, PL 156.7
- 449.24 MHz, minus offset, PL 127.3
The repeaters are open to all licensed Amateurs for general use, and on Sunday evenings there is the EARS net at 8:00 p.m. local time on the 146.88 MHz repeater... Come along and say "Hello!"
Procedures for the use of the EARS repeater & Echolink can be found here.
NET Control guide for the EARS Sunday evening NET can be found here.
EARS monthly meetings:
EARS monthly meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Salvation Army building in Escondido.
Their address is as follows:
The Escondido Salvation Army,
1301 Las Villas Way,
Escondido.
Talk-in is on 146.880 MHz, minus offset, PL 107.2.
The meetings are usually technical, educational or informative in nature. For a list of the proposed meeting dates and topics for 2010, click on the following link:
Specific details of the next meeting can be found nearer the top of this web page.
Note: There are no meetings in August or December because of the EARS summer picnic and Christmas party.
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society is also involved with the
Salvation Army Canned Food Drive.
When you attend the meetings, please try to bring some canned goods and place them in the receptacle located by the entrance.
This really helps in feeding the many folks the Salvation Army has to support throughout the year, and this is one small way of giving back to them for all their support they give us.
Last Thoughts:
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society is affiliated to the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).
Many EARS members are also members of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and other agencies such as RACES & ARES.
They regularly participate in drills, and are active in assisting with communications during times of disaster, such as Hurricane Katrina, and the wild-fires that we have in California.
So, if you're interested in knowing what's been happening in EARS in the past... please feel
free to look at any of the 'ALL EARS' news letters - available to download in the General section.
Also, if you have any comments, or submissions to ALL EARS, please mail them to: allears@earsclub.org
EARS also has messaging & discussion groups on both Yahoo! & Google.
Click on the links below to subscribe:
