Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our Club's Field Day Event. The bands were questionable at times but slowly came in later in the day. Everyone did well and had a good time (...more details to come)
Field Day Pictures can be found HERE
~W6LIE
Club's 2025 Field Day
ARRL Field Day 2025
Field Day begins at 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 2059 UTC Sunday
(11am Sat to 1:59pm Sun)
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This year we will be at Mondavi Park, 601 Mondavi Way Bakersfield, Ca.
Our Club will operating as Class A
- * A Club of three or more persons set up specifically for Field Day.
- * Stations located in places that are not regular station locations and must not use facilities installed for permanent station use, or use any structure installed permanently for Field Day.
- * All equipment (including antennas) must lie within a circle whose diameter does not exceed 300 meters (1000 feet).
- * All contacts must be made with transmitter(s) and receiver(s) operating independent of commercial power mains.
ARRL Field Day 2025 Rules can be found HERE.
Support Your Parks Weekend Event
April 19th, 2025
POTA
Mark your calendar and come out to join us!
We will be at US-3421, Colonel Allensworth State Historical park.
The event starts at 9:00 am. Read all the details HERE.
Classified Ads Are Back-
If you are a club member and would like to sell any equipment, visit the Classifieds page on our website.
Please visit the page for more details.
The Perfect Storm
On Saturday March 8th, 2025, the San Joaquin Valley Section of the ARRL will be conducting an Emergency Communications drill called “Perfect Storm”. The drill will simulate a disruption of telecommunications and the power grid due to the actions of an unknown “bad actor”. The drill will consist of 2 phases. The telecommunications blackout will occur first, then the power grid will go down.
KCCVARC Members are encouraged to participate in the drill either in person or during the Net. We are looking for individuals to work as Net Controllers or Area Controllers for the drill.
You can read more about this event on our news page - click HERE to continue.
The 2025 Winter Field Day Report can be found HERE.
Thank you to everyone who came out to Winter Field Day!2025 - We have submitted our logs and are waiting on the results to be posted.
We will have a post-field day report ready for our Club meeting on the 27th.
We will also post the results here on our webpage as soon as they are available.
Section Map from Winter Field Day 2025
Here are all of the ARRL / RAC Sections that we made contacts with
You can read more about how the event went for us HERE.
Thank you to everyone who came to the meeting...
Our first club meeting of the year went well. Plenty to eat and a good time for all.
Our next General meeting is 7:00pm on Thursday February 27th.
We meet at the East Bakersfield Veterans Hall located at 2101 Ridge Rd
At the corner of Mount Vernon & Ridge Rd. (Across from Heritage Park)
Guess Which Club Member Made His First POTA Activation
Read about it on our NEWS page.
Club President, Patrick KD6PAPPast President Patrick Ponec, KD6PAP
Patrick accepted a new role as the Emergency Coordinator for Western Kern County ARES.
For more information about ARES, visit the ARES website listed below.
Amateur Radio Emergency Services
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is part of the Amateur Radio Relay League’s (ARRL) extensive volunteer field organization dedicated to public service.
ARES is comprised of amateur radio operators who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment, with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes. Every licensed amateur, regardless of membership in the ARRL or any other organization, is eligible for membership in ARES.
ARES nets are held every Monday evening at 1900 hrs local time, on the two W6LIE repeaters of 146.910-pl 100 and 145.150-pl 100.
For more information, visit the Western Kern County ARES website.
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