Welcome to the Palomar Amateur Radio Club
Founded in 1936, PARC endeavors to serve the amateur radio community in San Diego County through various events and assets. Starting with monthly club meetings, weekly nets, and annual events (such as Field Day), PARC has a place for just about everyone. Our nets include the traditional NTS traffic net, emergency service nets such as Palomar, MARA, SATERN, and the Red Cross, and a number of special interest nets, such as Handi-Hams, Microwave, Off-Road, Ham Help, Hikers, and Facetious Group nets.
With repeaters high upon Palomar Mountain, we are able to serve the local community under almost any condition, and particularly in times of need.
Come by and visit with us on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the Carlsbad Safety Center. See you there, Steve Early, AD6VI, (former) President
PARC Club Picnic
The annual club picnic will be held on Sunday, August 29 at San Dieguito County Park (Picnic Area 4) starting with the arrival of the club tower at 9:30am.
The club will be grilling up lunch basics throughout with the various festivities to be intermingled during the day. Bring a side, dessert, or snack for the group and share the bounty. Conrad’s famous brownies may just attend as well.
The site has a gated playground attached to it, plenty of green grass and fun for the whole family to enjoy.
Festivities to include:
- 10/15/20 HF beam to be setup and running to get you on the air.
- Transformer Toss -- a fun event from last year
- Fox Hunt -- Can you find it? Bring your HT and DF antennas and see. Enjoy the park sights as you seek that pesky signal out.
- Annual club points raffle -- Drawing to happen around 2:00pm. You or your proxy must be present at the time of the drawing to win! Points have been earned for each meeting you attended, each club work party you assisted on, field day, bringing goodies to club meeting, etc. Picnic counts as two points! One for this year one for next year! (official rules available for review)
Hope to see you at the picnic, I know I will have a story or two of my own to share across the table as will many another ham, only way to hear is to attend! -- Conrad KG6JEI
This Month's Meeting
The meeting will be held at the
Carlsbad Safety Center
2560 Orion Way
Carlsbad
The meeting will be held on September 1, 2010 (the first Wednesday of each month). Arrive at 7:00pm for set-up and chat; the meeting starts at 7:30pm. Talk-in on 146.730 MHz repeater. Directions to the Safety Center.
Come early and enjoy an "eyeball" QSO with our members.
The September meeting presentation will be on Solar Power and Emergency Preparedness by Bob, KJ6RET. The presentation will include a practical explanation of how to use solar energy for off-grid mobile and portable applications and the use of modeling software to design critical emergency systems. It will overview a real life experiment to prove concept for the usage of solar energy for emergency communications and everything else in short term or long term disaster scenarios. It will include a hands-on demonstration of a portable solar power station and the open house of a mobile solar power off-grid trailer system.
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