About CARC

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

COASTSIDE VHF NETS
Day Time Repeater/Frequency Group/Contact
SUN 7:00AM WA6TOW(146.925 PL114.8) Knights of the Megahertz Net
Kelly Tuttle: wb6aaj626@gmail.com
MON 7:00PM WA6TOW(146.925 PL114.8) Pacifica CERT Net
TUE 7:30PM WA6TOW(146.925 PL114.8) Daly City Net
Tom Oliver, KJ6OGL:
toliver0557@gmail.com
8:00PM WA6TOW(146.925 PL114.8)
KC6ULT(146.865 PL114.8)
San Mateo County OES Net
Dan Bennett:dgbennett@smcgov.org
WED 8:00PM WA6TOW(146.925 PL114.8) CARC Wednesday Night Checkin
Tom Oliver, KJ6OGL:
toliver0557@gmail.com
COASTSIDE HF NETS
Day Time Repeater/Frequency Group/Contact
MON 8:30PM HF: 1908±kHz 160 Meter Net
WED 8:30PM HF: 1908±kHz 160 Meter Net
FRI 8:30PM HF: 1908±kHz 160 Meter Net
SAT 9:00AM HF: 3.852MHz or up
Alt: 7227.5kHz
QCWA-11 Saturday Morning Group
Bill Lillie:N6BCT@ARRL.NET
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