We are primarily a CERT/ARES/Service club. See below for local channel resources for Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Santa Clara County for you to use to program your radio. Since we are fairly South in the county, we have included the lists from the local San Benito County group as well.
Don’t forget to program the frequencies for our repeaters!
Official GVARC South County Frequency Lists
Morgan Hill / Gilroy coordinated frequency list for you to use to program your radios. Anyone wishing to participate in South County communications exercises, drills, and emergency communication events, should utilize this list. In this way, a net control can simply say “change to channel 5” and if everyone is using the same list, then everyone will all have the same channel 5.
- GIL-MRG South County Frequencies 6-23-2024 CSV
- Gil/MRG centric CSV file for copy/import into your programming software
- Contains 54 channels and will easily fit any current radio memory
- GIL-MRG South County Frequencies 6-23-2024 PDF
- PDF version of the Gilroy/Morgan Hill frequency list
- MRG All Cities Amateur Frequencies 6-24-2024 CSV
- All City CSV file for copy/import into your programming software
- Contains Santa Clara County, San Benito County, Cal Fire, and local Winlink Frequencies
- 196 Channels, so may not fit all radios
- MRG All Cities Amateur Frequencies 6-23-2024 PDF
- PDF version of the all cities frequency list
Additional Frequency List Resources
- Santa Clara ARES Frequency List – Current list of emergency frequencies used by ARES operations in Santa Clara County
- San Benito County ARES – The current list of frequencies used by the SBCARA team.
- Frequencies List for Santa Clara County – Comprehensive lists of frequencies used by other agencies.
- Frequencies List for San Benito County – Comprehensive lists of frequencies used by other agencies.
Simplex Net
The last Tuesday of each month we will conduct a simplex net, without the repeater, to practice message relaying in the instance or conditions which our repeater is offline, or unavailable for whatever reason. This is a great way to enhance amateur radio operator skills.
To participate in the simplex net:
- If you have already downloaded the frequencies list from the frequencies page on this site and loaded it on your radio, simply go to channel 2, “s-GGF-v”, and use that channel to transmit on during the net.
- If you are a more advanced user, we are simply transmitting on the output frequency of the repeater, which in the case of W6GGF VHF would be 147.825Mhz. Since this would be simplex there is no offset, but you will still want to use 100Hz for the PL tone otherwise others that have that programmed will not be able to hear you.