Saturday, June 28th, and Sunday, 29th, saw the Monterey Bay Amateur Radio Association (MBARA) gather near 599 DX Drive for their annual ARRL Field Day. The air buzzed with the sounds of radios, Morse code, and cheerful conversation. Preparations had…
Hey ham radio enthusiasts! Get ready to celebrate a big one – our awesome City of Marina is turning 50 this year! What better way to mark this milestone than by doing what we love? Let’s all power up our…
Coming soon, a GMRS repeater deployed at the N6IJ superstation in Marina! Currently there is a test unit operating on a Vertex Standard VXR-7000 with a Decibel duplexer and bandpass filter on the RX side to increase sensitivity. It is…
As the firestorms across Southern California continue to threaten millions of residents, trained amateur radio operators are serving critical volunteer roles to help officials spot fires before they get out of control. Dry conditions and wind gusts of 100 miles…
The provision of emergency communications is one of the fastest-growing areas of amateur radio around the world. Amateur radio is useful to emergency communications because it does not depend on infrastructure. That means amateur radio does not rely on the…
Fellow Club Members, Our new RemoteHams HF Remote is online and available for active club members. The new remote is a Kenwood TS-570D that will do 160m through 10m, all modes, and 100 watts with a built-in antenna tuner. Antenna…
Revised 3/26/2025 Rule Changes for ARRL Field Day 2025: Eligibility Criteria for the GOTA station for class A and F station has changed (see 4.1.1) 1. Eligibility: Field Day is open to all amateurs in the areas covered by the ARRL/RAC Field…
Story by Esly Davis At Buckingham Army Airfield, once the largest in Florida, thousands of airmen trained during World War II. Recently, a group of ham radio operators brought that legacy back to life, using the same airwaves that once…
From an article by Mike Langner – K5MGR. During the recent hurricane that ran through the South and especially hit western North Carolina hard, many traditional news services were just unavailable. It was not merely power outages in places where…
MBARA/N6IJ members plan to hold a Field Day on the fourth weekend in June, in coordination with the ARRL. (It will be held during daylight hours only: 10:00 – 19:00 on Saturday and 10:00 – 13:00 on Sunday. No overnight…