Category: Placentia RACES

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PLACENTIA HERITAGE DAY PARADE

Parade date is October 9th 2021.

Contact Person:  marklgarrett@yahoo.com 

Ham Operators meeting:  7:00 AM at Tuffree Junior High

The Parade starts at 9:30 AM

Parade End:  estimating at 12:00 Noon

Band Review is on Palm Drive. 

The parade starts at Yorba Linda Blvd and Kreamer then heads up Kreamer to Golden where it ends.

There will be booths and displays in Tri-City Park along with a car show.

We are requesting Dual-band radios just in case we need them. We will be using the OC RACES repeater during the parade to provide complete coverage. 

Repeater 449.680 MHz (-) PL 131.8 Hz 

Simplex 145.645 MHz.

Expect to spend 5 hours to support the parade.

Mark.   KG6CAV

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Programming The Baofeng Radios

Programming the Baofeng (Chines) radios can be a real challenge.  Here are some recommended web sites and devices that we hope will help you.

Baofeng Cheat Sheet

What I like about this cheat sheet is all the information is on one page.   https://w7apk.com/baofeng

Baofeng Programming Cable

There is a programming cable available if you have a computer to program some models of the Baofeng radios.

The cable is called: BTECH PC03 FTDI Genuine USB Programming Cable for BTECH, BaoFeng, Kenwood, and AnyTone Radio.

 

 

 

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Yorba Linda Ham Radio Operators Welcome

If you are a ham radio operator and live in the city of Yorba Linda, California, please consider joining Placentia, California RACES.  We  already have about 3 Yorba Linda ham radio operators that are active in our RACES group.  The reason for this is it seems that Yorba Linda does not have a RACES group.