Management Team Meeting

January 5, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
February 2, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
March 2, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
April 6, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
May 4, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
June 1, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
July 6, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
August 3, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
August 31, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
October 5, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
November 2, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
December 7, 2009
7:00 pmto8:00 pm
HB RACES 2009 Management Team
Huntington Beach RACES 2009 Management Team

The 2009 Huntington Beach RACES Management Team held their first meeting of 2009 on January 5, 2009.  HB RACES goals for 2009 include:  a strong effort on completing training materials and providing training opportunities for both new and seasoned communicators, documentation of standard HB RACES procedures and methods that have been established over the years and are working well for our group, continuing an ATV awareness effort within the city departments and our RACES groups including the periodic testing and verification of our ATV equipment and procedures, and facilitating each officer to manage and accomplish their specific goals for the organization.

The 2009 HB RACES Management Team includes:

  • Chief Radio Officer – Peter, N6RAS
  • Assistant Radio Officer – Vaughn, KE6V
  • Events Officer – Steve, KE6OCE
  • Training Officer – Jim, KG6ZDP
  • Personnel Officer – Robert, KE6RKG
  • Technical Officer / Financial Officer – Pedro, AD6TN
  • Documentation Officer – Manny, KG6IQL
  • Public Information Officer – Wayne, KH6WZ
  • American Red Cross Liaison – Shelley & Roy, KC6ZOW/N6SLD
  • Repeater Liaison / IT Officer – Tim, WD6AWP

In addition our past Training Officer from the 80s, Gordon, K6DAA, will be joining the officer team for special assignments and offering his assistance to all officers as needed. Gordon’s extra help and perspective will be helpful in the accomplishment of our ambitious goals.

Dates for 2009’s management meetings have been set and are on the first Monday of the month with the exception of September. In order to observe the Labor Day holiday we will be meeting twice in August - the first Monday and the last Monday. All officers are asked to attend these meetings and all interested communicators are also invited to attend. The meetings are normally held in the Huntington Beach EOC. If you have an issue that needs to be addressed by the HB RACES Management Team please contact the officer that best matches the area of concern or contact the Chief Radio Officer.

All of the 2009 officer’s are looking forward to making 2009 another great year of service to our city and continued learning of our radio skills with our vast radio family of friends. Together we will continue to make HB RACES the flagship organization it has become.

Surf City Marathon

January 26, 2009
7:00 pmto9:00 pm
February 1, 2009
6:00 amto2:00 pm

The 2009 Surf City Marathon is here. Sunday, February 1st, Super Bowl Sunday.  (We are home before the Game!)
On this Monday night net (Jan. 5th.)  Please let me know if you wish to volunteer.  This is our biggest event so we can use all the help we can get.  You may also e-mail me at events@hbraces.org. I need to know this week if you are volunteering.  Please do not wait, between meetings and planing I only have three weeks go put this together. 

There will be a  RACES Surf City Marathon meeting in the EOC on Monday night January 26th. at 7pm. If you are  volunteering YOU MUST MAKE THIS MEETING! At the meeting you will get information and paperwork for the event.  If you wish to see more about the Marathon check out there Web page at…. http://www.runsurfcity.com/

I will do my best with requests,  but I may have to make changes.

Thank You for Volunteering,
Steven Albert,  HB-RACES Events Officer

How to Register

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OCSD Featured on Apple Site

OCSD StudioMost of you know that I’m a big Apple fan boy. So when I see something about Apple that’s even remotely related to RACES you know I have to post about it. This article on Apple’s Web Site talks about Orange County Sheriff Department using Macs to produce training podcasts.  There is mention of a few other uses of Macs at OCSD. Be sure to check out the associated photo gallery.

Merry Christmas

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RACES Nets

December 29, 2008
7:15 pm
January 5, 2009
7:15 pm
January 12, 2009
7:15 pm
January 19, 2009
7:15 pm
January 26, 2009
7:15 pm

The HB RACES two meter net is held every Monday at 7:15 pm on the KH6FL repeater, 145.140 Mhz, -600 Khz, CTCSS 127.3 hz. Immediately following the two meter net we hold a net on our 440 repeater. The 440 net is on the WD6AWP repeater, 447.940 Mhz, -5.00 Mhz, CTCSS 100.0 hz.

CERT members and visitors are welcome. Everyone is welcome to check in.

Special Weather Statement

We have some weather coming our way. Today the National Weather Service has 4 notices up for our area.

Roster

Manny wrote to me asking how the new roster works. He wondered if he should he be making database updates on the new site or the old? That’s a good question and it calls for a post on the subject. 

The old site is still the system of record for the user database. Continue to make your updates there. On the day the old site is taken down I’ll move the database to the new site. When the old site is gone you’ll know to use the new site for database updates. I’ll post when the old site is taken down.

Currently the new site has a copy of the database I made a few days ago. The old login ID will work for viewing on the new site but I don’t know your editor IDs. If you want to send that to me in an email I’ll set it up on the new server for you.

Yahoo! Group

There is a discussion group over on Yahoo! Groups called HBRACES. I’ve been thinking about using that to replace the Mailman List server we have over on hbraces.org. Problem is I don’t know who the owner of that group is. I’ve posted to the group and none of the few members know or respond. I’ve also sent an email to the -owner  with no response thus far.  

But I’m wondering if we really even need the group? With the features we have here on our new WordPress site maybe we have all we need to communicate among ourselves.  After all, we are hams — we are communicators. Do we need email and/or forum software to keep up to date?

WordPress 2.7 Upgrade

Hopefully nobody will notice that the site has been upgraded to version 2.7 of WordPress. But if you do see something wonkie let me know in the comments.