Monthly meetings are held on the fourth Friday of the month at 7:30pm at Liberty Center, 650 NE Holladay St. The entrance is on the south side of the building. As meetings are after regular business hours use the intercom on the pillar to the left of the door to get buzzed in by security, then take the elevator down to the Lower Level Auditorium. Upcoming meetings: April 28, 2017 - Information on the upcoming solar eclipse in August and related experiments being done in the amateur radio field May 26, 2017 - Roy Lewallen W7EL on the BALUN June 24/25 - FIELD DAY! No regular meeting, antenna setup will be done during the day on Friday and then we spend all weekend operating radios. More details to come soon. Recent meetings: February 24 2017 - Intro to Morse Code, presented by Steve Crouch NO7V. Why learn CW? Steve is going to tell you! March 24 2017 - Voting night for a club bylaws change proposed by the board(click here to read proposal) to change the officer election to March. If passed, will be followed immediately by a vote of club officers. August 26, 2016 - Ham Radio meets offroading. Northwest Overland will be joining us for an exchange - we get a 4x4 show and they learn about ham radio! July 22, 2016 - Raspberry Pi computers June - Field Day is June 25th and 26th! We will be on top of Kelly Butte in SE Portland as usual. More details soon. Come early and help with setup and antenna raising! May 27, 2016 - Roy Lewallen W7EL will help us understand computerized antenna modeling and his EZNEC software package April 22, 2016 - Anderson PowerPole connectors March 21, 2016 - VHF/UHF contesting February 26, 2016 - Kent Randels K7YXZ talks about the Emergency Alert System January 22, 2016 - John White K7RUN discusses digital radio November 27, 2015 - Western Oregon Radio Club and the KISN LP FM station(95.1 MHz) October 23, 2015 - Bonnie Altus AB7ZQ, Vice Director ARRL Northwest Division updating us on recent ARRL news August 28, 2015 - John White K7RUN discusses repeater interference and and why PL tones don't help August 15, 2015 - Annual Club Picnic, this year was held at the Stonehenge Tower(KGON). July 24, 2015 - John White K7RUN discussing recent possibly weather related VHF propagation issues June 27/28, 2015 - No meeting due to Field Day May 22, 2015 - Brian Zvaigzne and Patrick Sherman from the Roswell Flight Test Crew blog: DRONES FOR HOBBYIST AND PUBLIC SAFETY February 27, 2015 - Russ Gubele K7RLG on Mountain Wave Emergency Communications http://www.mwave.org March 27, 2015 - Dale Hunt WB6BYU on direction finding/transmitter hunting April 24, 2015 - Dick Howard K7DVK on early broadcast and amateur radio history - November 20th 2014 update - Multnomah County ARES, working with PARC, has launched the fund raising campaign for the communications trailer project! Check out the details and make a donation at their Indiegogo page. Donations are coming in through PARC, which is a 501(c)3 organization. Club officer elections were finally held during the October meeting. The new lineup is as follows: President - Aaron Johnson, KD7VDG Vice President - John Rollins, KD7BCY Treasurer - Pete Rodabaugh, W7PR Recording Secretary - Adam Karol, KF7LJH Director, 1 year term - Wayne Splawn, WA7NE Director, 3 year term - John White, K7RUN Many thanks to those that came out to visit us or help setup and operate radios at our Field Day site on Kelly Butte. Be sure to join us next year!  Pictured here from the left are Mark McKay KE7BCJ from the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, Bonnie Altus AB7ZQ, ARRL Northwest Division Vice Director, and John White K7RUN PARC has a regular breakfast social meeting on Saturdays at 8:30am, held at the Village Inn at NE 10th and Broadway, near Lloyd Center. Please contact Steve Crouch NO7V for more details crouchsj@msn.com Regular nets hosted on PARC repeaters: Handi-Hams Net, Sunday at 7pm on 146.84. PARC Net, Monday at 7pm on 146.84. General info for the Portland Amateur Radio Club. Multnomah County ARES Net, Wednesday at 7pm on 146.84. See the Multnomah County ARES web site for more information. Please note that as of August 10th 2015 the NET Net has moved to the 147.04 repeater which is operated by ARRG, and now starts at 8pm on Sundays. Please contact Michael Schilmoeller AE7XP for more information on this net.
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