Beacon Light Communications

10/14/2025

We have great news, we now have headsets, that will fit,BKR 5000 And BKR 9000
portable radios, we has unlimited supply at this time, it took us about five months, before we saw delivery today, call for pricing, we also have in stock, limited supply,BKR 5000, portable radios both in black, and lime colored, again call for pricing, we also have limited stock of icon mobile radios with special pricing to clear the inventory, ideal radios for tow trucks, ranchers, and small business, we are a full-service, dealer, for BK technology products, and we have parts in stock, for some of the older, radios, like the EPH models DPH handheld radios, the things that wear out the fastest like the push to talk button we have those parts, in stock again call for pricing,707-813-7777 or 707-877-3311, message phone,

03/02/2025

As we grow closer to summer, we need to remind our customers, and future customers, that work in public safety, firefighters, as well as the contractors to support them, that use the BK technology product, that while we are still in winter, your radios may need, a little toning up, the newer models, which are the KNG handhelds portable radios, as well as the BKR newest radio out, may need the new frequencies, referred to is the,
Cal fire, load to upgrade your radio the older radios may need upgrades on pusher talk switch, which usually wear out, and the replacement of k***s, or the radio may need cleaning up, we are a full service facility doing programming, and making repairs, having parts in stockcomma ship radios to his repairs, we are at 7401 South Hwy. 1 elk, California,95432
leadership by FedEx, UPS, when shipping this product for repairs and/or programming, include a legible card, with your name and address, phone number, and a mailer shipped back to address, if you need an estimate of charges, prior to work being done, please indicate in a letter, needless to say the sooner you do this, the sooner we can get the product repaired and shipped back, many people wait until the last minute,
we only have one technician, and all repairs, will be made in the order that we receive them, don't be at the back of the line, the sooner, you get your radio in for repairs to, will be the sooner that we can get it shipped back to you, if you are thinking about replacing an old radio, ask us for a quote, our email address is [email protected],
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12/02/2024

08/25/2024

I just got word, that the elk cold Inn has been named the seventh best B & B in the nation, according to the USA today Sacramento bee newspaper as well as the LA Times,
the excellent food, and accommodations, putting them further up the ladder places to go, in the community, of elk California, at the south end of town, in the building that was originally built, for one of the shakers and movers, and the timber industry, the superintendent of the local sawmill, it used to sit on the flat, below the business, over the years, it is expanded out several ownerships, from the 60s, converted into a lodging facility, and small restaurant, over the years the ownerships have changed, and the accommodations have gotten better, as time is moved forward, they've been recognized as one of the top seven places to go and stay, the master chef as I know him as Victor, he is a top chef, with creations of food from around the world and his vast experience, in preparation, he and his wife present a good table, with his attentive staff, creating a great experience, I have known many people that stayed there, and I've always recommended, to people who comes through community to stay at the elk cold Inn, rather than staying it more expensive places in the community this is the top of the shelf establishment, as many places, up in Mendocino have disappeared from the view, with high prices, and a long walk to the beach, the above establishment is right next door, to the Greenwood Creek State Beach and easy walk down the hill, and an excellent view from the rooms of the Pacific Ocean,
there's only one other spot anywhere in the neighborhood and has a better view,
up at Beacon light by the sea cocktail lounge, they are at 485 feet above sea level, with suspenseful view, of the Pacific Ocean, certain times of the year, you can see the migration of the whales, and the various migration of seabirds, large and small moving south, as winter approaches, or in the spring when they migrate back north, the cocktail lounge, is open, Fridays and Saturdays, 5 To 11 PM, serving top shelf alcoholic beverages, and local beer from Anderson Valley, we are a strong supporter, of local businesses, in the town of elk,
and congratulate, the staff and management and owners, of the Elk Cove Inn , for being recognized as one of the top seven, B & B in the nation, we hope this will bring more business to the community.

07/26/2024

This afternoon, the fire started east of final,
at approximate address 9800 Block of HWY 128, near Boonville,
they have closed 128 near that area to all traffic except for emergency vehicles, the fire is near the Grange near the town of Philo, fire is working eastward,
and they have started evacuation of that immediate area all the way to Pete's land road, the fairgrounds will act as an evacuation center, attached are the local photos that I've managed to get from some of the cameras that are placed, in the immediate area, they've called mutual aid from many fire departments not only on the coast, but in the Valley as well, one site says it's 30 acres, where a Cal fire site, says his 50 acres, currently no containment, but there is a window in it, I will post more as it becomes available.

07/07/2024

Today, we're going to talk about food, last, not night in conversations, appear on the hill, people are looking for places to go eat, that will put them not in to bankruptcy, the problem we have on the coast, that the bulk of the restaurants, or in the major city areas, there are some places to get, what I called junk food, versus a fine meal that you can sit down, for a reasonable price, and have a good dinner, as you work your way south from Fort Bragg, there are restaurants, but they are overpriced, and badly managed, many of these places were started by people, so far back in time, even though their photos on the wall, what they did for the public, is long forgotten, for the generations that came after, these are the great-grandchildren in some respects, always thought, they had a better idea, many of these young people were raised in fine schools around the world, but they lost sight, what their grandparents and great grandparents, were doing, how sad it is when children, and their offspring, think that they know better, than the originator of a business, some of the best restaurants on the coast over the years, fallen short, what they were supposed to do, provide food at a reasonable price, serve plenty of food, so the customer would leave hungry, those days are gone, as people moved in from the city's, with their idea of dinner, forces everybody to eat a second meal, out of the deep freeze, when they get home, I can remember growing up here on the coast, that if you went to the liberal River Inn , restaurant, you would be served a large meal for reasonable money, breakfast lunch and dinner, most people would have to take some of it home with them, for they couldn't finish it, it was a completely full meal, for breakfast, you can have a anyway you wanted, patron, or sausage, or have, all the coffee you could drink, a glass of juice, of your choice, and homemade biscuits, made fresh every day, and if you wanted to replace, the meet with abalone that was available to, as well as for lunch and dinner, but not like a lot of restaurants will become everything is separate, what they call all of cart, like they do in Europe, today, many of the new people, or the great-grandchildren, of the original owners, their less people friendly, and more wrapped around the almighty dollar, as their best friend, taking the, longtime locals to the curb, in favor of the new people, that feel it spending the money for dinner, is no problem, even though the portions are small, they don't care, here's the other problems that, has raised its ugly head, in the new deal, they price the gratuity and with the cost of the boat, upwards of 20%, giving you no choice other than to pay it, if you want to eat at the Little River Inn, not giving the public choice of giving a gratuity for good service, they apparently don't care, they run most of us locals out of the building, thinking their way is the only way, somebody forgot to tell him without the locals in the winter, they will founder like, the Titanic sank by the head, into the mud, local customers, keeps local businesses alive, we on the coast and I like big cities, were scads of people, come out every night, with the price of gasoline, the cost of transportation, going up to the overhead, people are not going out any great distance, like the old days, as you work your way down the coast, there's only one really good restaurant north of the Navarro River, it's really any• good,, the Ledford house, serves an excellent meal, reasonable price, and a lot of food, most people have to, get it to go box, as you work your way S. Down Hwy. 1, the next place for dinner, would be that tiny kitchen, down at anchor Bay, yes there is, few places in the middle but hamburgers, up toward point arena, or overpriced, they have collected the tourist bug, have bitten themselves, and looking for the big bucks, while kicking the locals to the curb, in the little town of elk, we used to have Bridget Dolan's, then the local landgrab started, with the Miwok Indians, out of Jackson California, buying up the town, and raising prices so high, that a normal person couldn't, possibly stay there let alone buy food, and either one of their two, restaurants, which is the same problem, at Harbor House which is a high-end resort facility, that only cater, to the extreme wealthy, and brag about the Michelin stars for food, Michelin should stay in the tire business, and out of the food rating business, you could run the south end of town, to the elk Cove Inn, that have more price friendly rooms, they are pet friendly, and they have good food, but, you have to make reservations, and you driving down the road, just looking for a meal, this won't work, the Mendocino Coast, has become less friendly, to the lower end, family tourist, if you're going to go on vacation, with the family, I don't recommend coastal area of Mendocino County, you're better off going to a state park, or grow up toward Humboldt County, where there are little more visitor friendly, especially for families, the problem locally here, is no management, and a failure to communicate, with new business owners, that need to be taught about what running a business is about, getting sufficient repeat customers, for generations, like the Little River,inn used to be, I have run a cocktail lounge for close to 54 years, in the town of elk, started out in the restaurant business, and cut it back to two days a week, to accommodate backed, during the week nobody was drinking, currently thinking about, some way to bring more business in, maybe have somebody, come in with a portable kitchen and sell food for their people that drive up, I personally do not want to run, a kitchen but if an independent team in with one of those buses, that they serve food out of, it would accomplish bringing more customers, to the bar, with a nice view, and reasonable liquor prices, while the guys selling food, have a captive audience, portfolio started at this point, our biggest problem, for being in business, a lot of it is seasonal, except in our case we are year-round, most people want of by my liquor license, and have a bar downtown, but the same individuals, when a charge $15, for one drink out of the well, and $25 for a call drink, or whole lot cheaper than that, people tell me I should a build a hotel here, I had no worries about, running a ranch, and a timber operation, to not want to worry about a hotel, but we do need more places to stay, and the parks department, should fix the campground up, on the Greenwood Creek, state beach, to accommodate more people, it is hard to believe that in 1900, there was over 5000 people in the little town of elk, and today even though they say there's 200, I would think we have probably less than 150, but we do need cost-effective accommodations, for families, and good food at a reasonable price in the community.

07/05/2024

Last night, while sitting on the deck enjoying the cool evening, looking southward, toward point arena, a little after 9 PM, fireworks were entering the sky, from the point arena area, knowing that the real display was supposed to, happen on Saturday, night, I kind of wondered what they were doing, they were not as high, is normal displays would be, but yet I could see them, and hairs of, it stopped about 10 PM when I went inside to watch the Macy's, fireworks display, in New York City, which lasted well past 11 PM my time, locally there was minimal, radio traffic about fires, one over near the McNabb Ranch, a building had caught fire, back of a winery, there was a small fire, in the cold below area, but the bulk of the radio traffic yesterday was, medical aides, but the weekend, is far from over, we can only hope, that people will heed, the word about no fireworks, we understand for Bragg will have, if display over the weekend, and point arena is supposed to have a Saturday night event, which we will hope fully, watch from the deck, we always do,
celebrating our independence, has turned into a large commercial event, it is a nationwide, celebration, but we need to reflect on what the cost, of this event, truly meant in our early years, and people that gave their life, for our independence,
many politicians have lost sight, what it truly means, and as they squabble, among each other, about political views, they fail to understand, the reality, of independence, from an oppressive government, high taxes, and to stop squabblingl t the things that made his move here, and move away from, a government that was not of the people, or for the people,
why I bring this up, is we seem to be headed, and that bad direction, that we ran from out of Europe, many of his heavy distant relatives, of those old days, when the Pilgrims came here, to the New World, they were running from, bad government, and oppressive, condition, where they had no freedom, no right of free assembly, no right of free speech, that everything they made, had to be shared with the crown, are we not there, or close again, and are we not going to do anything about it, ponder if you will, where do we run to, to start over, we look up at the stars, thinking, our next vessel would be, rocket powered, or dues the greed of politicians, cannot be turned around, and we say what we have??, We need, to stop squabbling among each other, and straighten out, our elected officials, what their job truly is, working for us, not for them, so as a reminder of independence day, should it not be independence days from now on until this time next year, remember,
government is supposed to be for the people and by the people, not for the government by the government, for the preservation only of the government,
we the people are supposed to be the government,
our elected officials, temporary employees, they need to be reminded, often, that they work for all of us, they do not work for themselves, for some of you out there that might not, truly understand what the word independence means, look it up in the dictionary,
happy fourth of July.

07/04/2024

I want to wish everybody, happy Independence Day, but also must remind you, what it really means, it was independence away from the British and repressive government, we had won the war for independence from Europe, although her former enemies, through time became our friends, for time heals all bad will at least that's what we are told, I was there a war between the British Empire, and ourselves maybe we've lost sight, it had to do with high taxes, and our lack of freedom, today were our way, our country has high taxes, and we are losing our freedom, from within our own belief system, we're pretty much back to where we were, 1775, we have major dissension, between the two political parties, for they lost sight, why they're here, and who they're supposed to serve, they are certainly not, to serve themselves, but to serve the people, of the United States, government is supposed to be, for the people, by the people, not the government, and for the government, we the people, are supposed to be the government, if reading the, Declaration of Independence, as well as our Bill of Rights, we have lost sight, when we practice, Independence Day, it shouldn't be just a practice, we should know, what we are to do, protect each other, and make the government protect this is well, independence day, is freedom from oppression, freedom from high taxes, and protection, under our original government to be able to speak, our will, whether we like it or not, freedom of speech, freedom of open assembly, we are guaranteed these great gifts, but they did not come without a price, from 1775, two 1776, and even beyond, to just a few years ago, we continue to fight, for freedom, and our way of life, here in the United States of America, but somehow our government loses track, and falls off into the dark side, where they forget what independence, really means, we the people, need to remind our government, who's really in charge, as we celebrate Independence Day we need to reaffirm, what it really means, not just another day have, the party, but a day to, reflect about her past, and improve our future, when we elect someone to hold high office, when they fail us, we need to kick him out, find somebody new, for they don't own the job, their temp employee, with limitations, we hired temp to do a Pacific, task, and they failed to do it, we need to hire a new, it should not be about parties, or groups, that is supporting anyone, politician, it should be about the person, to fill a temp job, not about his party, or his friends, if you were qualified, you get the job, if you are not qualified, you need not apply, our political process, has become broken, we need to remind her politicians there Was, they are replaceable, we can always do better, so for Independence Day, remember the values we set out with, and we need to reaffirm, the past that we were once on,

07/03/2024

From one end of the state of California, as far south San Diego County and all the way up to our northern border, we have wildfires scattered out currently there are 17 fires cooking, within the state six of them with no containment whatsoever, Thompson fire, which is near Lake or will, in what they call urban interface, between residential, and heavy brush, is burning along over 3000 acres, but due to the hot temperatures, low humidity, statewide, it is an uphill battle, to fight wildfires, with the pending Fourth of July ,
tomorrow, we will see more, due to the carelessness, people who don't understand in many counties in California it is zero tolerance for fireworks, of any kind, Mendocino County is one of, there is absolutely no exception of any kind to the ruler regulations, within Mendocino County about having fireworks, over the years people come from the city's the countryside, think they're going to get away with it, we must remind the public, that if you are caught discharging, fireworks either on public land or private, you will be held accountable for the cost of extinguishment, what that means whatever caused the fire out parents will be responsible for what their children do, and I have seen fires in the past were run $1 million a day to chase of fire all over town, up and down hills, is also a reminder to private property owners, if they have guests on their property the discharge fireworks, the landowners responsible for the actions, of any person discharging fireworks on their property, there is no such thing, is safe and sane fireworks, they all start fires, and all of them are dangerous, beat players safe the Fourth of July, watch the fireworks on TV, go to your favorite community where they have professional, fireworks on display, the fire smart, not fires stupid

06/30/2024

Over the years we as human beings, will lose her, many friends along the way some will die of natural causes, and others will be taken by war, you walk across the street in the city and a bad driver will take you up, you sit down at a restaurant in a stray bullet may collect you, life is not forever for some it's a long time, sometimes we get a short life, if in the natural order of things, usually we lose our parents or grandparents we may lose a sibling or two tool war, or a bad disease, but life is not forever, there is a beginning, and there is an end, you try and put as much into it, as you can for the time you have, some good, some not so good, sometimes erode it slows and you'll get through it all right from beginning to end but not for everybody, we come into the room naked without anything, and when we leave we leave pretty much the same way, if we were to recognize what, the Bible teaches us, then our soul never dies, it is forever, we just don't remember, whether this life is truly the end we won't know until we experience, the end ourselves, it's called having faith in what the big black book says, if you believe that there is some greater purpose after this life, then the road is not so bumpy, we are the ones that are left behind could write the story, to remember the parties, remember the good times, and the not so good times, we remember what our friend was like in our neighbors to, if you are fortunate enough, to live to be very old, then you get to say goodbye, to help a lot of people over your time, but always thinking in the back of your head, sooner or later you will be your turn, and is it a room full of your old friends, waiting for you to become the life of the party, or is it just a long nap,??? We really know don't know, and nobody's coming back beyond the door, to tell you what's going on, the Lord our God made promises to all of us all we have to do, is to believe, he promised us if we believe in him we shall never die, for the body dies but the spirit live forever so as I remember my friends, that are passed before me, I can only hope and pray, that we will join together, at some greater time in future, that what the Lord our God promised us, was to believe in him, then we will, survives to eternity, maybe not without giving up our body but it is only a house, a vessel we lived in, and after a while it gets a little old, a little broken down, praise be to the Lord our God, believe in what he promised.

06/23/2024

This graphed was taken this morning from the Richter scale equipment in our yard, of the Greenwood Ridge fire department south of the town of elk and to the east of the fire station.

06/17/2024

Beacon light communications, has parts in stock for the older legacy radios,
we also have a limited amount, of the KNG-150P CMD radios installed as well, we also have,
a limited amount of,BKR5000 portable radios in stock as well, in black, or lime colored,
you should call for pricing, we can also provide, the latest frequency update, four 2024, Cal fire radio frequencies, a sure local, BK technology dealer, we will go the extra mile, for our customers, you may contact us at, 707 813 7777, or 707 877 3311.