Welcome to the web site of the Escondido Amateur Radio Society.
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society (EARS) is a non-profit organization of educational and social benefit to amateur radio operators, and others interested in amateur radio in the Escondido area.
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.
See below for meeting and membership details, or click on the following links...
For anyone wishing to take their amateur radio test, or upgrade their current licence - EARS provides a Volunteer Exam session on the last Saturday of each month. Click the link for more details.
Next club meeting:
DXing 101.
Hi everyone,
The next club meeting will be on Thursday, the 9th of July 2009, and will be a presentation by our very own Harry Hodges (W6YOO) - DXing 101.
This program is designed to answer basic questions about DXing for the HAM new to HF, and for the seasoned operator who wishes to try something different.
To be covered are the relative importance of receivers, antennas, and power.
Other subjects will be:
- How to find and work DX
- QSLing and DX awards, and other DX information.
Harry is on the ARRL DXCC Honor Roll and has been awarded 5Band DXCC, 5Band WAS, and 5Band WAZ, and the DX Challenge Award with over 2,000 band/countries confirmed and numerous other operating awards.
For those of you who have not seen Harry's presentation before - you are in for a treat. It's a lot of fun, and it's very informative.
We hope to see you all there.
Field-day is almost here - Assistance required.
Field Day is almost upon us as I'm sure you're aware. Jeff, AE6GM, is looking for people to help out, and still needs things like a generator for the CW station, a shelter for the CW station, and other stuff (probably for the CW station too)... So if you think you can help in anyway - please contact Jeff.
The GOTA station is being headed up by Rob, KI6SBL & Viv, W6NWF, and they have asked that if you have any friends and family who would like to try their hand at operating, please bring them along.
Gina Venner, KI6UQP, is organising the food for lunch on Saturday, and coordinating the food for the pot-luck dinner on Saturday evening. If you are planning to attend the social event in the evening, and wish to participate in the pot-luck, please contact Gina for details of what dishes are required, or let her know what you intend to bring.
Echolink will be temporarily unavailable.
In the next few days, the Echolink set-up will be temporarily unavailable. The reason being is that the lap-top controlling Echolink will be used for controlling the VHF/UHF field-day station.
It will be back-up as soon as we get a replacement lap-top, or after the field-day activities have finished.
Sorry for any incovenience this may cause.
EARS Members' "For Sale" ads section available.
This is notification that the Members' Ads section on the EARS website is now working.
To post ads, please log in to the members-only section and you should see the appropriate button.
Please limit the ads to Amateur Radio related items (i.e. no TVs, dishwashers etc.), and if you want to upload a photo of the item - please make sure it is in .jpg format, and is less that 40KB in size.
Anyone (inc. non-members) can view items for sale - just click on the button on the front page of the EARS website to get a current listing.
Clicking on the item of interest will show more details of that item (inc. a photo if one has been uploaded).
So if you have something for sale - give it a go...
Opportunity Drawing:
Starting at the club meeting in May (14th), EARS will be holding an 'Opportunity Drawing'.
We will be having some great prizes on offer, and first up is a wonderful little rugged handi-talkie - the Yaesu VX-6R.
It's a great little 5 Watt tri-band radio (1.5 Watts on 220MHz), and is
relatively simple to use. Further details can be found on the Yaesu website:
Yaesu: VX-6R
The rules for the drawing are fairly simple:
- Tickets will only be available at the club meetings - from 7:00 to 7:30, and then again after the presentation(s).
- Only EARS club members are eligible to purchase tickets - but please feel free to join the club!
- Once the cost of the prize has been reached (+20%), the drawing will
take place at the following month's club meeting.
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 and call sign are 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 (Steve Venner).
Resurrection of the 2mtr SSB Net:
The 2mtr SSB net has been resurrected. It takes place on Tuesday evenings at 7:45 p.m. local time,
on a frequency of 144.230MHz.
EARS member Ed Childers (W6IPT) is one of the net controllers, and is based here in Escondido.
Ed would like for as many people as possible to join the net - so if you find yourself with some spare time on your hands on Tuesday evenings, please do check-in.
The cut-off date for the Transition from analog to digital TV broadcasts has been delayed:
The cut-off date for the change from the current "analog" to digital 'over-the-air' TV broadcasts was originally scheduled for February 17, but has now been delayed until June 12, 2009. Note that some TV stations have already changed over to Digital Transmissions.
All persons who receive television signals over-the-air with an antenna must be prepared for the change.
They must either have a 'digital ready' television set, or add a digital converter box to their set by that date - in order to continue receiving TV signals. Note: The change does not affect cable or satellite customers.
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society (EARS) is providing help for members of the public with the transition to Digital TV broadcasting.
Persons living in the Escondido area who have questions about the transition can get advice from a local EARS member, by contacting one of the club officers listed on the right, or by sending an e-mail to: earsclub@earsclub.org
Membership details:
- One Year - $15.00, Family - $4.00 for each additional family member.
- Lifetime - $150.00, Family Lifetime - $38.00 for each additional family member.
Membership runs from January 1st to December 31st. An application form is available in the latest issue of 'ALL EARS', the EARS newsletter - available to download in the General section on the left.
The bylaws of the Escondido Amateur Radio Society can be found here.
If you would like more info on membership of EARS, or on Ham Radio in general - drop 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 Club meetings:
EARS club meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at:
The Escondido Salvation Army,
1301 Las Villas Way,
Escondido.
Talk-in is on 146.880 MHz, minus offset, PL 107.2.
If you're interested in knowing what's been happening at EARS... please feel free to look at the latest 'ALL EARS'
news letters - available to download in the General section.
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:
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