We are a volunteer group of amateur radio operators that train and prepare to offer our services as emergency communicators to the City of Santa Clara . We do this through several organizations such as the civil defense RACES organization and the American Radio Relay League's ARES organization .

Meetings

We try to have a meeting, event or drill every month around the third Saturday of each month except November or December, due to the holidays. Please check the calendar above if there is an actual meeting scheduled for the month.

The meetings typically start at 10:00 hours (10:00 AM) in training rooms of Santa Clara's Fire Station 2 but not always so please check the weekly roster that is emailed out, the Google Calendar above or check in to the weekly Tuesday night net for details about the monthly meeting, event or drill.

Santa Clara Fire Station 2 is located at 1900 Walsh Ave, Santa Clara, CA, just east of the Walsh Ave and Scott Blvd intersection. If parking at the fire station (both at the entrance or behind the station) is taken, you may be able to park in the parking lot that is just west of the fire station or in the city's corporation yard parking to the east of the fire station. View Map.

Nets Weekly City Evening Net There is a city check-in net every Tuesday night at 1930 hours on the Santa Clara tactical frequency of 147.510 MHz. A tone of 100 Hz should be used on this frequency since during the net, this frequency is also linked to the K6SNC repeater which gives net access on 442.025 MHz +100 and on 927.7375 MHz -100. All members and visitors are encouraged to check-in using this net control script (PDF) for that process. (Semi-) Weekly City Noon Time Net In corporation with the Intel Radio Club, there is a noon time net that occurs (currently) on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 1215 hrs on the Santa Clara tactical frequency of 147.510 MHz (again, should use with a tone of 100 Hz since this frequency is linked to the K6SNC repeater). All members and visitors are encouraged to check-in using this net control script (PDF) for that process. Weekly County Packet Net There is a packet net each Tuesday night which concludes prior to the start of the County voice net at 2000 hrs. Check in by sending a message containing your callsign, first name/handle, city (City of Santa Clara) via Outpost/PACforms (see Santa Clara County Outpost/PacFORMS for more details), addressing the message to PKTTUE and sending to W6XSC-1 (145.750, 223.620). (more details) Weekly County Net There is a county SVECS net done every Tuesday night at 2000 hrs (8 pm), right after our city's evening net. It is done on the AA6BT repeater at 146.115 MHz, +offset, 100pl and also on the linked N6NAC repeater at 444.625 MHz, +offset, 110.9pl. This net is used to report each cities totals to the county for their record keeping and reporting to ARRL. Members are encouraged to listen and follow along with this net as each city will get a chance to be net control as it rotates from one city to the next each week. The script for this net may be found on the Silicon Valley Emergency Communication System (SVECS) web site both a html and a PDF versions are available. Please check the event calendar above to see when will be Santa Clara's next opportunity to be net control. Monthly Hospital Nets Santa Clara participates in two hospitals nets each month and both occur on the fourth Wednesday of each month (except for Thanksgiving and Christmas). The first net is the Kaiser Hospital Net which starts at 1200 hours (noon). Members participating in this net for Santa Clara should arrive at Kaiser Santa Clara at least 15 minutes before noon in order to meet with our hospital liason and fellow HAM, Rick Filippuzzi, and then proceed to setup the radio gear for the net. Please contact Bill, K6WAR, for more information. The second net is the county wide hospital net done at 1900 hours (7pm). It is done on the N6NFI repeater at 145.230 MHz, -offset, 100pl. Here is the current version of the Hospital Net Script ( Acrobat File, Updated, January 21st, 2019 ). Please contact Bill, K6WAR, for more information. Members are encouraged to listen from home. Those member wishing to participate, please meet in front of the elevators in the hospital's Courtyard Lobby. Consider parking on the north side of Kaiser Santa Clara, in Parking Lot A, which is the first lot you will come across when entering from Homestead Rd. You should arrive at least 15 minutes before the net. Use 147.510Mhz as the talk in frequency to reach other members arriving to support the hospital net. Map



Discussion Groups Groups.io santaclara-ares We have a group page on Groups.io for our Santa Clara ARES / RACES members. All members should subscribe to it. This is replacing the group page we had on Yahoo!.

Social Networks Facebook Group santaclara-ares There is a Facebook group for members wishing to be connected there. If you already have an account on Facebook, follow this link to where you will be guided to a request to join the group page. If you don't have an account but wish to access this group, go ahead and follow the link also. It bring up the login page for Facebook and from there you may register and create an account for yourself. The major benefit of this group is help you to be connected with other members who also have Facebook accounts. Twitter SantaClaraRACES You may follow the tweets of Santa Clara ARES/RACES by following "SantaClaraRACES" on Twitter.com. Upcoming events are also viewable as favorite tweets. LinkedIn Group City of Santa Clara RACES There is a LinkedIn group to connect those member who are on LinkedIn.

Membership In order to become a member, candidate must fill out this membership application. The filled out and signed form may be either: dropped off at Fire Station 1, located at 777 Benton Avenue in Santa Clara, marked attention for the Santa Clara ARES/RACES group

or mailed to Santa Clara ARES / RACES Group

777 Benton Avenue

Santa Clara, CA 95050



or if able to scan in the signed document, send the scanned document to ec at santaclara dash ares dot org After which, please send an email to staff at santaclara dash ares dot org to notify us of the pending application. Once your application is received, it will be reviewed by the staff and then forwarded to the city's Emergency Services Coordinator who will then schedule a Live Scan for the applicant. Once the Live Scan is complete, then next step will be getting the applicant signed up and sworn in as a Disaster Service Worker. That will complete the membership application process.