The Point Loma Amateur Radio Club (PLARC) was organized in 1957 by members of the U.S. Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL). The club is based in San Diego, California, and throughout its history it has primarily comprised amateur radio enthusiasts from U.S. Navy organizations in Point Loma -- mostly civilian Department of Defense

United States Department of Defense

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 employees. The club operates on a wide variety of amateur radio (or ham) bands, from HF through VHF and UHF.
Over the years, club activities have included contests, disaster preparedness drills, and plenty of simply social radio contacts. The Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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 (FCC) assigned call sign for the club is W6RDF. This call sign is used for all transmitters operating at the club's station or "shack".

The FCC assigned call sign of the Point Loma Amateur Radio Club is W6RDF.

Repeaters

The PLARC maintains two active repeaters, one for 2 meters

2 meters

The 2-meter amateur radio band is a portion of the VHF radio spectrum, comprising frequencies stretching from 144.000 MHz to 148.000 MHz in International Telecommunication Union region Regions 2 and 3 and from 144.000 MHz to 146.000 MHz in ITU Region 1...

 and one for amateur television

Amateur television

Amateur television is the transmission of Broadcast quality video and audio over the wide range of frequencies of allocated for Radio amateur use. ATV is used for non-commercial experimentation, pleasure and public service events...

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VHF Repeater

PLARC 2m Repeater
Input Frequency	145.380 MHz
Output Frequency	144.780 MHz
Subaudible Tone (CTCSS CTCSS In telecommunications, Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System or CTCSS is a circuit that is used to reduce the annoyance of listening to other users on a shared two-way radio communications channel. It is sometimes called tone squelch... )	107.2

Amateur TV Repeater

PLARC Amateur TV Repeater
Input Frequency	434.0 MHz AM (legacy), 2441.0 MHz FM (New)
Output Frequency	1277.25 MHz AM

Awards and Distinctions

• June, 1996 ARRL VHF/UHF Award: First Place, Limited Multi Operator San Diego Section in the 1996 ARRL June VHF Sweepstakes
• Jan, 1994 ARRL VHF/UHF Award: First Place, Single Operator San Diego Section in the 1994 January VHF Sweepstakes, Winner 50MHz, 222MHz, 10GHz
• Sept, 1993 ARRL Certificate: ARRL September QSO Party
• 1977 IARU Diploma: Radio Sport Championship Diploma for Operating W6RDF Multi Operator
• Sept 17, 1977 ARRL Charter of Affiliation

Contact Info

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