The
US Coast Guard Amateur Radio Nets
The US Coast Guard Amateur Radio
Net is held each Saturday at 1200 EDT / 0900 PDT on 14.300.0MHz, and the
early net at 1100 EDT / 0800 PDT on 14.327.0MHz, USB voice. The net's
charter is to provide an on the air meeting place for current and former
Coast Guard men and women. A CW net is held at 1130 EDT / 0830 PDT on
Thursday on 14.052.0MHz. The nets are affiliated with the USCG Amateur
Radio Club and the
Coast Guard CW Operators Association. The Net Manager and primary SSB
voice net control station is
Dick
Anderson/KE7A, ZUT-1286, Southlake, Texas.. CW Net control is
Fred
Goodwin/K7LF, ZUT-702, Port Angeles, Washington,
The
US Coast Guard Amateur Radio Club
If you are currently serving on active
duty or have served in the U.S. Coast Guard, regular or
reserve, and have an amateur radio operator’s license, any
class, you are eligible for free membership in the
Coast Guard Amateur Radio Club.
(Members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary are not eligible for
membership.) If you meet these requirements and would like
to join our group, please fill in the Information Sheet.
Upon receipt, we will immediately post you to the
Coast Guard Amateur Radio Club’s
call book, and the following Saturday on the Coast Guard SSB
Net, you will be announced as a new member.
If you cannot remember the dates of your duty assignments,
and cannot locate your discharge certificate(s) or the
DD-214, your best guesstimate will be fine. Examples such as
Spring of ’42, Fall of ’78, and so forth, could be a good
indicator. Please do not use anything but the most common
abbreviations—our membership expands over a wide variety of
ages, and abbreviations understood by one group may be
completely foreign to another. Let me also emphasize that
you may use an entire page in the call book, so please spell
out in detail your duty assignments, hobbies, interests, and
so forth—the more information members add the better the
call book becomes. We want everyone else to know all about
you, as if there had been a long QSO between us. Quite a few
of our members have found long lost shipmates through the
call book.
There are no membership dues. Officers are elected for a one
year term effect October 1 of each year. Elections
will be conducted via email during the month of September of
each year. The Officers/board members meet annually. Club
meetings are held weekly on the air. However there are no sea bag or dress
uniform inspection, no field days, no paydays (sorry), no soggying down, no brass work to shine, and no free chow; but
we have open gangway and you don’t have to show a liberty
card. We are simply a group of Coasties who have furnished
information that has been posted to our call book CD. When you
hear one of us on the air, you can check the call book and
know quite a bit about the person. Nothing really personal,
though. We don’t ask new members to fetch a bucket of steam,
or look out for the mail buoy.
Members of the
Coast Guard
Amateur Radio Club
rank from CAPT to a Seaman 2nd class who was an
ET striker (called ETM in those days). Our members have
served in aviation and in general service aboard white-,
red-, yellow, and black-hulled cutters. RM/AL/AT/ET/TC/OC
ratings are in the majority, but there are several pilots
and a sprinkling of almost all CG ratings. Members are
currently serving on active duty, retired and have served a
few years or a few months.
The call book is in PDF format on a CD ROM and
contains an Index, 1Ø sections for the members in the 1Ø FCC
Regions, plus 4 Appendixes of general Coast Guard/Ham
information. One interesting appendix has information
regarding each USCGC or USS that our members served on while
they were on active USCG duty. With many USCGCs, you can
trace commissioning to reconfiguration, reclassifying,
decommissioning, and often, resale, renaming, and so forth.
This appendix is largely the work of our club's historian,
COMM-4 D R Peterson, Retired.
If you join our club and would like to have a copy of our
call book, with you in it, You can buy a CD-ROM version for
$7.00.
The call book is NEVER sold to anyone not a member of the
Coast Guard Amateur
Radio Club.
You DO NOT have to buy the call book to become a member,
but, what the heck, you might find someone who shares an
important hobby other than amateur radio, someone who lives
near you, or someone you served with.
If you have further questions concerning the
Coast Guard Amateur Radio Club, please
send an e-mail message to
Rick
McCusker/WF6O
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Coast Guard CW Operators
Association
The CG CW Operators Assn. is open to anyone who served in the US Coast
Guard and was a CW radio operator and/or holds a ZUT Number. For
more information, please email
zutters3.0@gmail.com -- ZETA UPSILON TAU - CW FOREVER!.
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