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.
Call Sign Change: KG6GNI is now K6BIL
BARK president, Bill Gustavson, has had his call sign changed from KG6GNI to K6BIL.
If you hear K6BIL on the radio, give Bill a call!
8/15/2010
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
6/19/2010
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. 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
The BARK Net has moved to Sunday Night
An important notice to those members that have joined us on the Tuesday night NETS in the past - As of March 21, the BARK Nets have been moved to Sunday evenings at 1930 hours. It is our hope that this change will promote participation in the net. This net will be followed by the BARK Packet net which begins at 2000 hours. For information on using
packet radio, the club's website offers some great information. Hopefully you will find yourself addicted to this very useful and interesting form of Ham communication.
3/9/2010