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 […]
CQ, CQ, CQ, CALLING ALL HAMS! April 2024 and May 2024 have been busy months for the GCARA. In April, I had the pleasure of going to the 85th Anniversary of West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group up in the Cox Center in West Palm Beach. Barry Porter K1PB, representing the ARRL, was sitting next […]
Out of respect for AL and Anna Jean Karden’s service to GCARA, I would like to invite you to make a donation for a Brick at ARRL for Anna Jean Karden N4KAJ. This can be done at the Parrot website, parrotarc.org and make a donation. Donations will automatically stop once the funds goal has been […]
Many of you do not know what goes on in planning a Field Day so I thought I would review some of the processes of this past Winter Field Day. When someone volunteers to head up the committee, in this case Joe McGee NX4T, they map out what they would like to see happen. Joe […]
CQ, CQ, CQ, Calling Field Day………. Once again, GCARA, has experienced another successful Winter Field Day. Many of our experienced hams as well as quite a few untried hands, came together to make a memorable and meaningful event. We came, we pitched in and we communicated on all bands as if performing a symphony for […]