Welcome to 2023!
For the last few months I have had posted on this page an article about the early development and history of the Contra Costa County Public Safety Radio System. I did this to show that the building of a radio system from a new technology concept of the 1930’s called mobile radios was not an easy task or done over a few years. It was done over decades by people of different personalities and skill sets. Alan Burton could foresee Contra Costa County would eventually leave behind the VHF repeater based publ
The CCRA has followed a similar path in its development. The four founding teenager hams wanted to learn about electronics and radio and put together the idea of funding their interests by creating a group called the CCRA. Over the years it too has had growing pains with various founders moving on in the pursuit of education, family and fortune. During the 45 plus years of the development of the CCRA there were at least a half a dozen instances where former members of the CCRA decided to go their own way