Join the Coastside Amateur Radio Club(CARC)

The Coastside Amateur Radio Club (CARC) is a welcoming, ARRL-affiliated community of amateur radio enthusiasts. Since 1959, we've been serving Pacifica and the surrounding Bay Area providing vital emergency services to the City of Pacifica.

We invite you to join our monthly meetings, which are held on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM at the Pacifica Police Station (2075 Coast Highway). Visitors are always welcome, so please stop by! We reccomend checking the Coming Events page for any schedule changes.

Membership dues are just $20.00 per year which helps support club activities (such as Field Day) and the publication of our newsletter, the Coastside Communicator.

Club Repeater Systems

CARC maintains a robust repeater and digipeater system located on the North Peak of Montara Mountain(1900 ft.elevation) at the border of Pacifica and Montara. The repeaters provide excellent coverage of the Coastside and beyond.

• 2 meter repeater (voice)
  • Callsign: WA6TOW/R
  • Frequency: 146.925 MHz
  • Offset: -600 kHz
  • PL Tone: 114.8 Hz


• Packet Digipeater
  • Callsign: WA6TOW-1
  • Frequency: 145.05 MHz
  • Node: PAC