Wonderful! We easily saw ISS pass overhead and heard quite a few check ins. I tried to break in several times but they could not hear me in the pile up. The Starlink pass we could not see.

Going to try this from Santa Maria tonight. It looks like we'll have a 7-minute pass here starting at 7:32PM with a max height of 53°. I just have an Anytone 868 HT with a Nagoya 771 antenna pushing o

Coinkydink #8: Turns out that Chris Parker and Steve DeBiddle know each other! Chris, a former Cal Division of Forestry employee, helped Steve and others in the EDCARC, quietly get the Club's main rep

Space Laser-enabled: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/13/new-version-of-spacexs-starlink-internet-satellites-to-begin-launching-monday/

Coinkydink #1: A former neighbor and friend, Chris Parker, dropped by the other day to deliver something. It was the top half of a key you see here. It was from the key I first used when I was license

Hah! Should have known that was too good to be true. Anyplace where you don't have to stack the chairs is probably out of the question :)

Wow! Just WOW! I might have to start attending meetings again. Time to get the band back together...:)

KCRA Reporting: https://www.facebook.com/KCRA3/videos/561002935093924

Thanks, Carl, Looks like they've already diverted aircraft to the area:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/pi4w03/spacexs_starlink_used_by_the_local_louisiana/

More from Greg on this... Alan, FYI. How Big Telecom Killed Rules That Would Have Prevented Hurricane Ida Outages Once again a lack of industry oversight and meaningful rules means the cellular indust

<Rant> So, we have yet another disaster, there is no AT&T service, and FirstNet goes down.... "What could possibly go wrong?" WTF! (AKA, Why Telecom Fails!) Where is all the portable hardware (COWs, S

Hello All, As a postscript to thus morning's convo about the KA6GWY Repeater being used by EDCARC to assist Animal Rescue efforts during the Caldor Fire, please be aware that this is a tactical activa

Thanks for posting that, Jim.

El Dorado County Evacuation map is here: https://eldoradocounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=c995bf3816964e948d7d831d3ba938ff&fbclid=IwAR2oPQTHAw__r0xZp7olckds0mnEOnup8SPrrCoW8Ea5ql

Sorry, Brian :( https://www.rvmobileinternet.com/spacex-update-standing-down-from-further-starlink-launches-new-mobile-receiver-in-the-works/

The El Dorado County Amateur Radio Club will be at the Garden Valley Farmer's Market Tomorrow, Saturday, August 21st at 9AM to present our Neighborhood Radio Watch program. The Market is located at 50

If you pull up these two sites side by side in two browser tabs, you can watch a representation of the air-tanker drops working the CalDor Fire while listening to the cockpit radio traffic: Audio: htt

You make a great point, Jim. And a big takeaway is the movement of many served agencies away from reliance on Ham Radio comms. For us to maintain relevance, I believe we should start transitioning our

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