Red River Radio Amateurs

Background

The local ham club in my home town is the Mile High Radio Club or MHRC. As a public service the MHRC recently committed to providing the entire local community with a GMRS repeater. This location is Idyllwild, California which is to say that we live relatively isolated in a very small mountain village high on Mt. San Jacinto in Southern California. Village elevation is 5200 ft. and is embedded in a forest of tall pine and cedar. Wildfires and earthquakes are a constant worry here because the infamous San Andreas fault is a few miles away. Also, Idyllwild has become a favorite tourist destination for hikers who use the countless wilderness trails and seem to create their own emergencies on a regular basis.

At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors must battle to be the fastest and most accurate at sending and receiving Morse code.

Continuation of a series begun in Zero Retries 0179 - Explaining the Use Case for Data Over Repeater - Part 1.

Applications are now being accepted for campers interested in attending the 2025 Youth on the Air Camp. Licensed amateur radio operators, ages 15 through 25, who want to attend are encouraged to apply online at YouthOnTheAir.org. The camp is scheduled to take place June 15–20, 2025, in Thornton (Denver), Colorado and the Denver Radio Club, an ARRL Affiliated Club, is the local host.

[On] December 7 we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces that killed more than 2,000 servicemembers and 68 civilians in 1941. It was a devastating act of aggression on U.S. soil, thrusting an entire country into a war and calling on everyone to contribute to the cause overseas and back home—including operators in the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).