Bay-Net

Welcome

Bay-Net is an open amateur radio repeater system providing wide-area coverage for public service events and emergency communications. All radio amateurs are welcome to use the system. The system includes 2m, UHF and 900 MHz linked analog repeaters, a D-Star digital repeater, Echolink, and IRLP VOIP services.

Bay-Net provides communications for the American Red Cross and other organizations. If you are interested in using the system for a special event, contact us through the About Us page.

For more in depth information on the system and other topics look at the articles section of the web site.

News

The East Bay site (443.975) now encodes 100 Hz PL on the repeater transmitter.

Southbay Repeaters

145.390 PL 100.0 Analog

443.225 PL 100.0 Analog

927.8625 DPL 023 Analog

444.075 D-Star repeater

IRLP node 3802

EchoLink node 314933

Eastbay Repeater

443.975 PL 100.0 Analog

More repeater info >>

Weekly Schedule

Sunday, 6 PM - Weekly American Red Cross communicators net

This net is to facilitate the planning and maintenance of the American Red Cross disaster communication plans and practices. It is intended as a forum for coordination between ARC, ARES, RACES, FEMA, and Homeland Security.

Sunday, 5 Minutes after the ARC net

Disaster Communicators Forum Net

Starts 5 minutes after the ARC net. This forum is for those who recognize the need to share information: lessons learned, preparedness planning and disaster relief coordination.

These nets are hosted on the IRLP Western Reflector (channel 9257) and the Echolink DCF-ARC #336037. The system will auto-connect to the reflectors at 6 PM and auto-disconnect at 8 PM.

Monday, 9 PM - Amateur Radio News Line

Tuesday, 9 PM - A.R.R.L. Audio News

Wednesday, 7:45 PM - Orinda ARES net

Wednesday, 8 PM - American Red Cross Bay Area weekly net

The ARCBA forum is online at ARCBA Forum

This net will automatically connect to the IRLP Western Reflector (channel 9257) and the Echolink DCF-ARC #336037. The system will auto-connect to the reflectors at 8 PM and auto-disconnect at 10 PM.

Thursday, 8 PM - California Task Force 3 weekly net

Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 3 or CA-TF3 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Menlo Park, California. CA-TF3 is sponsored by the Menlo Park Fire Department.

Served agencies

Articles

Article list >>

A Big THANK YOU to Jay Harmon and his company Household Repairs

Recently we did a lot of site maintenance and we needed some extra help. The call went out and Jay Harmon and his company Household Repairs came to the rescue. Not only did Jay’s team do a great job, when it was all said and done, Jay graciously said, “hey, no charge”. We are very grateful for Jay’s contribution to help keep Bay-Net on the air. If you need any work done on your house, give Jay a call at 408 449-7821 or on the web at www.householdrepairs.us

News - Annual Meeting 12/28/2011

The annual Bay-Net training session and general meeting will take place Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 5:00 PM at the Silicon Valley chapter of the American Red Cross located at

2731 North First Street in San Jose, CA 95134

This event is open to anyone interested in learning more about the Bay-Net system and how it can be used especially for emergency communications. You don't have to be a member or know the secret handshake.

Agenda

5:00 Welcome - George, N6NKT, American Red Cross

5:10 Bay-Net system overview and training - George KJ6VU

6:30 Intro do D-Star - Rich KC6OBJ

7:00 Q&A

7:15 Hands-on demos of the system, IRLP, Echolink and D-Star

Topics will include

Repeater system behind-the-scenes tour

Using the IRLP and EchoLink systems

Using D-Star

Plans for 2012... Very cool new projects !