Welcome to BARK! - Berryessa Amateur Radio Klub
Repeater 146.970 MHz PL 123.0
2M Packet on 145.050
The BARK repeater is located 22 miles west of Woodland Ca. at 3000ft, and is maintained by the Berryessa Amateur Radio Klub, known as BARK.
BARK has a net every Sunday night at 07:30 PM for the purpose of providing information to members, making announcements, passing traffic, selling equipment, and anything else that may be of interest to the amateur radio community. Visitors are welcome to check in after the membership roll call.
BARK Repeater Back in Service
Due to the hard work of Bill, K6KN, and Ken, K6WLS, the BARK repeater has been modified and is now back in service. Both Bill and Ken made a trip up to the site earlier today and placed the unit into service.Our many thanks to both Ken and Bill for their hard work. 5/14/2012
FCC Test
The FCC test held on Dec 10th at the LDS Chapel on 850 Pioneer Ave was a success. There were 6 applicants, two received their Technician License and two upgraded to General.Thanks to the time and effort of the following VE's we have been able to add many new operators to the Amateur Radio field.
Greg Kruckewitt
David Towle
Bill Ragsdale
Vas Voda (from Carmichael Elks group)
Bob Jordan
Dale Dennis
The tireless effort and willingness of these VE's to participate in these test sessions make them a success, improve and add to the base of operators in Amateur Radio. You are Greatly appreciated and can be proud of the service you are providing. Thank You. 12/16/2011
Repeater Maintanence
After the BARK annual General meeting Bob KI6BZR and myself K6WLS made a run up to the repeater site to do some checks on the site and general maintainance. The site was found to be in good shape with some basic needs for clean up like knocking down some cobwebs and sweeping the floor. We checked the voltages on each of the batteries, and topped off the cells with distilled water and cleaned the Solar cells. We also verified that the voltages being read and listed on the BARK website were listed correctly in the TNC and Controller areas. While we were there we had been requested to change out the radio on the packet system. The existing one was showing signs of problems. It was changed and has since been checked out by Al - WB6YNM. He has reported that the problems he was hearing have been corrected and that the syetem is now working very well. This new radio is a 60 watt unit and will help to improve connections and coverages. Thanks to Al for the assciated equipment, and his countless hours of monitoring and maintaining the system. 10/2/2011BARK Annual Membership Meeting and Elections PROXY
Barkšs annual membership meeting is 0900 hours, Saturday, October 1, 2011,and will be held at the offices of Luhdorff and Scalmanini Consulting
Engineers, 500 First Street (corner of Lincoln and First), Woodland, CA. The
agenda at the meeting will include:
ˇ Introduction of new members
ˇ Acknowledgement of member contributions
ˇ Discussion of repeater equipment modifications and costs
ˇ Repeater operating difficulties
ˇ Committee chairperson reports
ˇ Operating revenues and expenses
ˇ Proposed operating budget for 2012
ˇ Elections of club Directors
ˇ Appointments by the Directors of club officers
ˇ Membership vote on Director terms
ˇ Old business
ˇ New business
Elections of two Directors will occur at the meeting. Up for re-election
are:
ˇ Director position held by Bob Jordan
ˇ Director position vacated by Ione Hendrick
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If you or any other BARK member would like to be a Director, please add your
name to the ballot. Most of the current Directors have been serving multiple
terms, so if you think new blood is needed and you want to volunteer to be a
part of the club that sets the club agenda for the year, please throw your
name into the hat.
Ione Hendrick will not be seeking reelection to her Board position.
Bob Jordan will not be seeking reelection to his Board position. The secretary position will also be open.
If you do not plan on attending the meeting, it is imperative that you fill
out the proxy form and make sure it is received by the club Secretary prior
to the election. 9/20/2011
Al Lindquist, K6QDC, has donated radio equipment to BARK
Al, Lindquist, K6QDC, is moving from his home in South Davis to a new location. He has offered several pieces of equipment to the club and its members. Read more… 7/13/2011BARK Repeater NEWS- an Adjacent Tower Down
UPDATE: AC power has been restored and the repeater is operational! The tower adjacent to the BARK repeater town fell down Friday night in the high wind. it took out AC power and knocked the BARK repeater off the air..
Ken- K6WLS, Jack- K6JAC, Bob- KI6BZR, and Paul- KJ6GCP, went up to the site and got it running on battery power. There was a bit of damage to some contacts, but we were lucky! 10 feet to the left and the BARK tower could have gone down.
11/13/2010
Brush Removal at the Repeater Site
Bob - KI6BZR and Ken - K6WLS went to the Repeater site to remove brush around the building. The attached photos show some before and after pictures of Thursdays work 6/19/2010AL7LS's Mobile Rig
Bruce, AL7LS, drove up to Jack's, K6JAC, house for Erika's, KI6PDZ , graduation party.His mobile set up covers VHF, UHF, HF, packet, and PSK31. 6/5/2010
Did you miss the Sunday night BARK Net? You can hear it now!
A recording of the Sunday night net is available on the web site.Go to the, Nets menu, click the date of the net you missed. You will get a recap of the net and a link to listen to the net. 4/25/2010
From NPR: Ham Radio Growing In The Age Of Twitter
From NPR. Click to the site to hear the story.Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear.
They were wrong.
Nearly 700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses - up 60 percent from 1981, a generation ago. And the number is growing.
Ham radio will never have the sex appeal of the iPhone, but it does have a certain nerd appeal, says Allen Weiner, an analyst at the technology research firm Gartner.
"If it creates its own experience, that's really what's key here," he says. "If it just emulates an experience that you can get online, it's not going to grow."
... Even the most die-hard hams concede that amateur radio will never be a mainstream hobby. With smart phones and other devices, people are more plugged in to the Internet than before. But people are still discovering the joy of communicating with a technology that's existed for nearly a century. 4/6/2010