K6SOA - South Orange Amateurs - Mission Viejo, Orange County, California.
The South Orange Amateur Radio Association.
The fastest growing ham radio club in  Southern Orange County, California.
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The South Orange Amateur Radio Association (SOARA) is an ARRL Special Service Club serving ham radio in South Orange County, California since 1974. SOARA is one of the fastest growing clubs in California due to its many activities including Field Day, repeaters, DStar, monthly meetings, ham radio classes, FCC testing, weekly nets, monthly transmitter hunts, Saturday workshops, emergency preparedness, community event support, HF DX, Amateur TV and much much more.

If you are new to the hobby or an old timer... SOARA will have something for you.

2012 Meeting Dates

A list of this years meeting dates and events.

Badges

Badges will be available at no charge at the first meeting following application.

Those who need a replacement send a note to membership@SOARA.org.

VE FCC Exams!

Contact Sean, AJ6B (testing@soara.org) for info.
Walk-ins ok.

Extra || General || Technician
CW Exam, too! Contact Tom Hobbs, AE6SH for more info.

VEC Question Pools are available from the ARRL at:

http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/pools.html

 

Already taken your exam and waiting for your license?

Check your status with the FCC here.

APRS lookup - find out were folks with APRS are currently located:

-or enter-

Local APRS Stations.

SKYWARN

www.ocskywarn.org

OC SKYWARN NETS

1900 Sundays

145.400

Emergency Information

(Where's the fire?)

 

The Emergency Information area on our message board is an information clearing house to help you, your family, friends and the community in an emergency.

If you have info about an event, post it there. If you don't have internet access, use your radio to call someone who does. If you need info, look for it there. Use the repeaters to exchange information about local events, use 7.250 to exchange information about wide area events.

 

Don't forget Gordon West's daily ARES net at 8:30 on 7.250. Our SOARA net control is Lou, KG6FCT. More info here.

 

 

 

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A pdf version of the April 2012 Propagator is here.

 

SOARA Field Day help request is here.

 

The latest installment of Hal's Ham Radio 101 series -

 "5.0 - 5.5 MHz Variable Oscillator" can be found here.

 

The ARRL Call for comments regarding the impact of CC&R's is here.

 

If you did not receive your copy by email, please let membership@soara.org know.

 

(Prior articles can be found here).

FCC Seeks Public Comments on
Emergency Communications by
Amateur Radio and Impediments
 to Amateur Radio Communications

CLICK HERE TO SEE ARRL ARTICLE

 

 

Our next meeting is on:

May 21st 2012 at 7:00pm

Meeting Location

Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center
24932 Veterans Way
Mission Viejo, CA 92692
Google Map

 

It's that time of year again to do some spring-cleaning in the shack. In SOARA's effort to offer green solutions to our members, we will be holding our semi-annual electronics-recycling program, otherwise known as the
spring auction.


This event will offer you the ability to turn the electronic items you no longer use into some cash.

Heiko, AD6OI, has agreed to be the auctioneer and the auction is in place of the May meeting. If you have items to auction bring them to our regular meeting room at 6:00 p.m. to get them checked in. SOARA takes a small percentage of the sale price as Spring Auction handling fee or you can donate the item to SOARA in which case the club takes 100% of the profit.

It is always fun to see what there is, whom gets into a bidding war with whom, and of course the biggest challenge of all, see if you actually go home with less stuff than what you brought.

Past Meeting Topics?... Click Here

Future Meetings

TBA

 

SOARA is now on Facebook !

 

Just search Facebook for "South Orange Amateur Radio Association"

 

 

FIELD DAY PIX ARE HERE

(If you have more, please email to membership@soara.org)

 

Letter from the Mayor of Mission Viejo

 

SOARA can receive membership dues and donations from your credit card. If you're not familiar with PayPal, SOARA finds it very convenient: as it allows you to send money to anyone with an email address WITHOUT having to reveal your credit card info. It's big success came from the popularity of online auctions... but it lis a great way to transfer cash for any purpose, and its FREE! Just click here or the logo! Remember to enter your callsign in the comments field so we'll know it's you. (If you are already a PayPal member, just email your payments to payment@soara.org.) 73

CONTACT: P.O.  Box 2545, Mission Viejo, Ca. 92690, E-Mail: soara@soara.org

Club nets: 

2M 147.645 MHZ, Tuesdays @ 8:00pm - AR Newsline etc (4 linked repeaters). 

2M 146.115 MHZ, Wednesdays @ 8:00pm - Weekly DSTAR net on PORT C.

40M 7.200 +/- MHZ , on Sundays at 8:00am (new freq)

40M 7.250 +/- MHZ , on Week days at 8:30am - Gordo Net

 

Our 10 repeaters provide ham radio operators with excellent VHF and UHF coverage in Southern Orange County including the cities of Mission Viejo, Dana Point, San Clemente, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Aliso Viejo, Lake Forest, Irvine, RSM and Trabuco Canyon. Our club's high level UHF repeater covers most of Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties.

If you have articles, things for sale or trade, or items of interest for others in the club.. Please send our Newsletter Editor an email. Click here to send Mike a note.

 

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Explanation of wireless communication . . ."You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- Albert Einstein

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