CQ, CQ, CQ……….. calling all hams. Good afternoon GCARA. Thanks to all of the hams involved, GCARA and ARES/RACES was able to pull off a very successful SUMMER FIELD DAY 2025!! Sixty-eight plus people were in attendance and thanks to the dynamite PIO team of Tom Savoca K9TJS and Carol Sjursen KJ4AWB, the message got out! They hit the ground running about one month ago, making flyers, […]
CQ, CQ, CQ Calling all hams! GCARA is entering a troublesome period at this time. While many hams are still enthusiastic and happy to join in on activities, we are experiencing a lack of participation from many hams in the club. This begs the question: are we still a viable club with a useful purpose […]
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE FOR MARCH 2025 CQ, CQ, CQ CALLING ALL HAMS………….. Luck of the Irish to you in the month of March!! May the wind be at your back and the sun on your path as you travel through your lives. I hope that this note finds everyone doing well and what they want to […]
Happy New Year !!!! CQ, CQ, CQ, Calling All Hams!! Our new year 2025 promises to be the best yet! Our new Board is busy at work keeping the club operational and looking for ways to enrich the lives of our fellow hams. We are currently checking to make sure everyone gets their emails through […]
November 10th President’s Message ~ 2024 CQ, CQ, CQ, Calling all GCARA HAMS! Wow!! Thirty-two of us met at Vista View Park for our ANNUAL WINTER PICNIC and boy did we have fun!! Mike Wolf KD4OVP did his best ever job cooking the burgers, dogs and sausages for us to consume as we all visited with […]
CQ,CQ, CQ, Calling all hams! HELP NEEDED! The new year is coming and as the Gold Coast Club reorders its Board of Directors and tries to rearrange it’s committees, we need to ask for more help. We have received excellent responses when we need volunteers to help with the physical set up of Field Days and Picnics and […]
• CQ, CQ, CQ. Calling all hams…….. On September 24, 2024, GCARA held their first in person/ZOOM meeting at Imperial Point Hospital since the COVID epidemic struck. About 20 people attended in person and 14 showed up on Zoom to hear an out of town speaker talk on the RFinder DMR Phone. Unfortunately, Mr. Monteverde […]
A NOTE FROM THE PRESIDENT – AUGUST 2024 CQ, CQ, CQ, calling all members of GCARA! I hope that my note finds everyone doing well and making contacts as you wish. Our equipment is working well at this time except for our HF Remote station which for some unknown reason keeps shutting itself off intermittently […]
CQ, CQ, CQ, Calling all hams! The very first priority of mine is to thank all of those hams who volunteered their time, talent and strength to get involved in the June ARRL Summer Field Day this past June. It has taken us some time to recover from being in Covid Isolation and our previous […]