Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members Roger Moynihan (K6RPM), left, and Ron Patten (KG6HSQ) begin making contacts with other amateur radio users at the start of the annual Amateur Radio Field Day event at William H. Frazier Elementary School June 23.
A variety of ham radio antennas are set up at William H. Frazier Elementary School for the Amateur Radio Field Day event.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members, left to right, Hayden Perrine (KG6YVD), Linda Costello (KM6QBD) and Krissy Perrine (KR6SSY) practice making radio contacts during the annual 24-hour Amateur Radio Field Day event. Costello is the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce communications director and was recently inspired to earn her ham radio license after losing cell phone communication during the Lilac fire last December.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members Brent Dussia (KJ6UMY), left, and Stephen Spencer (KC6MIE) practice their radio skills during the Amateur Radio Field Day event June 23.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club member Dave Huhta (N6EEG) tests his radio communication skills and equipment during the annual 24-hour Amateur Radio Field Day event at William H. Frazier Elementary School. The exercise helps amateur radio users prepare for the event of an emergency when conventional forms of communication are lost.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members set up shop at William H. Frazier Elementary School for the Amateur Radio Field Day event June 23. The Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club has played an important role in Fallbrook for many years, enabling communication in emergencies such as wildfires and also helping with large events in the community.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members utilize a solar panel to power their equipment.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club members practice their emergency communication skills during the annual Amateur Radio Field Day event.
Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club member Forrest Turner (KK6BYR) practices making radio contacts.
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club held Field Day 2018, an emergency preparedness exercise lasting 24 hours, from June 23, 11 a.m. till Sunday, June 24, 11 a.m. at Frazier Elementary School's athletic field.
Field Day has been an annual event since 1933, and remains the most popular event in ham radio.
During emergencies and natural disasters normal modes of communication such as telephones, cell phones and the internet usually become overloaded and fail. Amateur Radio has been called into action again and again to provide communications in crises when it really matters. Amateur Radio is well-known for its communications support in real disaster and post-disaster situations.
The club also assists in community events such as the Fallbrook Avocado Festival and parades.
During the recent Lilac Fire, the Fallbrook Amateur Radio Club's repeaters (repeaters re-transmit radio signals to extend range) were used by local radio operators with vantage points from at home or mobile, observing the fire and road conditions, to provide supplementary information to North County Fire, and to provide verified information from North County Fire from a radio operator stationed at headquarters.
The radio transmissions could have been heard with a radio scanner or with a smartphone app or computer, from audio streamed via the internet. Information at http://www.fallbrookarc.org/index.php/gener/listen.
Amateur radio operators must pass exams that test their knowledge of electronics and communication procedures in order to get licensed by the FCC. Once licensed they are issued a unique call sign and have earned the privilege to use frequencies in the radio spectrum that are allocated for the amateur radio Service. Some of these frequencies are for short-range communications while others are capable of contacts over distances of thousands miles. There are over 727,000 licensed hams in the United States.
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