City of Torrance Civic Disaster Preparedness Organizations
TARA is part of the greater network of disaster response organizations, including...
- the City of Torrance Disaster Council
- the Torrance Police Emergency Services Division
- Torrance Community Emergency Response Team, CERT
- Area G Veterinary Disaster Response Team
- The Community Volunteer Alert Network, CVAN
Regional Disaster Radio Communications
Going beyond Torrance, TARA is District 17-G in the Los Angeles County Disaster Communications Service and is the City Radio Organization for Torrance.
- Lomita District 17 DCS LMT
- Los Angeles County DCS DCS
- Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management (that "Area G" thing)
- California OES Auxiliary Communications Service OES/ACS
TARA Members
Read about
The history of TARA
by Chuck KN6H
Catalina Photos
The history of TARA
by Chuck KN6H
Catalina Photos
2007 Picnic Photos
From Santa Paul
From Santa Paul
- Chuck Lobb KN6H, TARA Director Emeritus, has authored a book on the history of the Torrance Airport.
- Deane Bouvier N5DQ Maintains the web site for the Air Force MARS - Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo AGA6LA
- Brian Johnson AB6UI is station manager for the Hughes El Segundo Amateur Radio Club
- Scott Schiffer AB6YS is a big cheese in the Belmont Shores Model Railroad Club
- John Kemper W6JN is a member of Society of Airway Pioneers
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Santa Claus
sometimes appears as Paul Passmore N6DBL. See Santa's
photos
- Stuart Gorsky K9STU has lots of pictures of TARA and CERT events.
- Andrew Papp W6YB
- Ges Davis KG6RTM
- Charlotte Lobb writes novels as Charlotte Maclay
Local Clubs and Organizations
- South Coast Radio Amateur Network, SCRAN
- South Bay Amateur Radio Club, SBARC
- United Radio Amateur Club, San Pedro URAC
- Palos Verdes Amateur Radio Club PVARC
- Baldwin Hills Amateur Radio Club
BHARC
Meeting temporarily in north Torrance at Round Table Pizza, 7:30pm on the first Wednesday of the month. - TRW Amateur Radio Club W6TRW
- Associated Radio Amateurs of Long Beach ARALB
- Southern California Monitoring Association SCMA
Amateur Radio
- American Radio Relay League ARRL
- Federal Communications Commission FCC
- Two-Meter Area Spectrum Management Association TASMA