Gearing up for the Miwok 100K event on May 7, 2022. It promises to be another fun day outdoors with radios. After that, we have the Dipsea on Sunday, June 12.
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More Ridge to Bridge comments
Re: our operations, things seemed to go well. Few enough stations that pile-ups weren’t an issue, at least in the morning. My primary recommendation is to refine the tear-off tag method of logging participant arrivals. They seemed to blow away easily if not carefully handled, and there’d be no backup.
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Ridge to Bridge
Living dangerously, we tried two new things for this event. One was having participants tear off a tab with their bib number and put it in a container at each rest stop to account for them, rather than having them line up for a volunteer to check their name off
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Ridge to Bridge event Comments
Muir Beach: In sum it was a good event with relatively little confusion compared to some. The hiker/biker tracking appeared to work. Not all participants wore bibs in easy to see locations, so dropping off a tag was the only reasonably sure way to know who came through the rest
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Introduction to DMR – Digital Mobile Radio by Alan Bowker WA6DNR
Last night 6/5/20 we had an excellent presentation about DMR by Alan Bowker WA6DNR in our June membership meeting. Alan has graciously provided his slide deck which you can download at Alan’s DMR Slides The presentation includes a description of the technology, a discussion of some of the radios that
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Happy 4th of July
The next regular meeting of the Marin Amateur Radio Society would normally fall on 3 July 2020. As in past years we are cancelling the July meeting due to its proximity to Independence Day, and this year, it falling on a national holiday. We will meet as scheduled on 7
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Social Distance 3/19/2020
The pace of changes in the face of COVID-19 is enough to make me dizzy. With the present Shelter in Place orders around the bay we are cancelling the 3 April 2020 General meeting. We are also cancelling the License Training class that would have started 7 April 2020. Since
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An ounce of prevention
Gatherings of people and COVID-19 The Marin Amateur Radio Society in interested in your health and safety in light of the COVID-19 or Novel Corona Virus. Current reports about the spread of this disease indicates that risk of infection at our meetings is very low. We have two meetings scheduled
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2020 Schedules for Exams and License Classes Posted
The 2020 schedules for License Exams and License Classes are Posted on the website. For the exam schedule go to the Exams page http://w6sg.net/site/why-how/exams/ For the License Classes schedule go to the Education page at http://w6sg.net/site/education the dates for the classes are posted now and the content for each date will
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Speaker for 2/7/20
Military Auxiliary Radio System Steve Silen WB6KWL from San Anselmo will provide a presentation about the Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System. If you plan to attend please let us know by emailing to rsvp@w6sg.net so we can make sure to have enough pizza. 73 de WA6UDS
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