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Transpac 2009 Info

The Shoreline Amateur Radio Association (SARA) is a group of Shoreline members who are, or want to be licensed Amateur Radio Operators dedicated to serving Shoreline Yacht Club and the local community through communication and education. SARA operates and maintains Amateur Radio Station K6SYC at Shoreline Yacht Club. SARA also maintains SYC's Marine Radio station, KYL910, in support of SYC's on-the-water activities.  SARA also maintains the new K6SYC weather station at the Yacht Club.

Rod Goodman K3ROD teaches Ham license classes here at SYC with unusual success. Rod's 2 day classes are followed by a FCC license exam and almost 100% of the class members pass the federal exams. This years classes will be offered on Jan 19 & 20 for the beginning Technician license and March 1^st and 2^nd for the General license class.

In 2008 SARA will meet at the Yacht Club the Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7PM for educational presentations and event planning. We also have a radio net every Wednesday night at 7:00 pm on 2 Meters: 146.805 Mhz giving us a chance to practice using our radios.  If you are within the range of the repeater and you are licensed, you can participate.  If you are interested, please email  Randy Graham ragraham1@earthlink.net and he will provide the PL to program into your radio to activate the repeater.

After our first successful HAM radio Special Event (see pictures below) Sara is planning other 2008 HAM radio special events. The first will be held April 19^th 2008, the Saturday of Grand Prix weekend attracting HAMs from all over the country to contact us via radio and receive a special QSL card highlighting SYC and the Long Beach Grand Prix.

SARA members also serve SYC throughout the year by providing communication support for the club's many activities, both on and off the water, playing a major role at Regattas, Opening Day, and the Parade of 1000 Lights.

The K6SYC radio station currently has equipment that allows communications on all popular amateur radio bands as well as VHF Marine radio.

For more information please contact Randy Graham, 2008 K6SYC Chief Operator. Cell: 818-631-0366 Email: ragraham1@earthlink.net.

2007 Transpac Special Event

Shoreline Yacht Club's Ham Radio group (SARA) conducted a special event celebrating the 101st year of the Transpac sailing yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii.

On July 14th we operated on 2M, 20M, 40M and 80M Making contact and offering special QSL Cards. Here are a few of our pictures.

We moved our radios to the deck for the special event	Tom kept us cool in the afternoon
We had a great turnout of SARA HAMs	Tom keeping track of our contacts