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Next ORCA Events:
March 23 Oakland Running Festival
March 29 BEACON Radio Regional Test

Monthly Meeting April 5 
9 AM at Fire Station 1 & zoom
7 Steps to Earthquake Safety
by Mark Benthien

10 AM business meeting
11 AM Board Meeting

Latecomers use the new ORCA door bell!
Map for Fire Station 1
Membership
Membership Information
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ORCA dues include extended repeater privileges for licensed members. Send the membership form with a check payable to ORCA to ORCA, P.O. Box 21305, Oakland, CA 94620-1305.

The NewsLetter is distributed by our posting it to this website, followed by a Google Group email notice. Newsletters will be mailed only to paid members who specifically request that.

Upcoming Events
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Welcome, New Members!

Rhys Hiltner AK6BA, Scott Nelson K6MTR

Dan Tennery-Spalding K6XCX,

Reede Stockton KO6HGK,

Christophe Marchante KO6HWD,

Bill Reining WA6CTY, Robert Liesenfeld AK6L,

and Michael Marriott KN4BVT.

Welcome back James Jenkins KI6NGS,

Cathy Henry Jenkins KM6ZTP and

Matt Leonard W6MJL.

Weekly Net

Thursdays 19:30 local time on:

146.88 Mhz, minus offset, PL tone of 77.0 Hz and 442.40 Mhz, plus offset, PL tone of 77.0 Hz.

Repeater portion can be accessed remotely via the linked VoIP Nodes.

 

Simplex net follows on 147.585 or the alternate simplex frequency 146.565.

Net Control Operators

Net Control Manager is Tyler Conant-Martin KM6IHB

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Newsletter Editor

Send newsletter articles to Tom Tazelaar KG6MAC.

Webmaster

This website was designed by Mike Pompa KB6MP with contributions from Peter Strauss KO6R, Bob Firehock KE6IUE, David Otey WB6NER, Tom Tazelaar KG6MAC and Chris Adams KJ6WEG.

Please contact us from the Contact Us page.

ORCA is an ARRL Affiliated club. 

ARRL Chart of US Amateur Radio Bands

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ORCA - Oakland Radio Communications Association - a Ham Radio Club based in Oakland, CA - Amateur Radio

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