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: August 12, 2017 - Potluck Picnic at Stonehenge Tower(aka KGON Tower). 4700 SW Council Crest Dr. from 1-4PM This year the PARC Picnic will be held at Stonehenge tower on August 12th with a target time of 1PM to 4 Pm. This facility, at Healy Heights in Portlands west
hills, is visible throughout the city and has become an iconic part of the
Portland skyline. The Stonehenge tower, also know as the Super Tower or
the KGON tower houses a number of FM broadcast transmitters as well as
commercial land mobile, emergency radio and ham stations. Public tours of these kinds of facilities are
not often available and the last public tour was more than 15 years ago. Other features are an outstanding vantage point of the city of Portland
and the surrounding area. Photo ops of
the view are allowed. Because of the
nature of this facility NET and MCARES members are particularly invited to
attend. This facility is undergoing seismic upgrade to
the latest standards and the grounds near the Tower may be a bit messy. Parking is limited and car-pooling is strongly suggested. RSVP is encouraged to W7PR@Juno.com The picnic will be a
pot luck with participants encouraged to bring a small main course item and a
salad or desert. A grill, burgers and
other main course items will be provided by PARC. Please bring folding tables and chairs if you
desire them. Directions: Take SW Broadway
south to cross I-405. At the I-405
stoplight proceed straight to Broadway Dr.
Follow Broadway Dr. to the stop sign (will be some distance). At the stop turn left to Greenway.
Follow Greenway to the Y intersection with Council Crest Dr. Turn left to Council Crest Dr.
Follow Council Crest Dr. to the intersection with Carl Dr. (from the
right). You may begin parking at the
right (west) shoulder. Continue on
Council Crest Dr. to the tower. At the
gate the access road curves left around the tower to the building. Talk in on 146.84 and 147.18.  August 25, 2017 - Meeting Program TBD Recent meetings: April 28, 2017 - Information on the upcoming solar eclipse in August and related experiments being done in the amateur radio fieldMay 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.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 Officers for 2017: President - Aaron Johnson, KD7VDG Vice President - John Rollins, KD7BCY Treasurer - Pete Rodabaugh, W7PR Recording Secretary - Bill Hulley, K7WXW 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 the NET NET has moved to another repeater system. It can now be found on 443.300(+5) with a 100Hz PL. I believe the time is still Sunday night at 8pm. Please contact Michael Schilmoeller AE7XP for more information on this net.
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