Calendar at a Glance

Multnomah County ARES Meeting  Thursday, January 23rd at Fire Station 2,  4800 NE 122nd,  at 7 p.m.  All hams are invited to attend!  (ARES is the Amateur Radio Emergency Service which provides vital volunteer communications during natural and man-made disasters).

Net Information

Handi Hams Net       

Sundays at 7 p.m.  146.840

PARCNET               

Mondays at 7 p.m.  146.840

ARES Net           

Wednesdays at 7 p.m.  146.840

ARES D1 Net   

Nightly at 7 p.m.  147.320/146.840 alt 

NW Traffic/Training 

Nightly at 6:05 p.m. 146.800 MHz

Multnomah County ARES Receives Donation


Thanks to a generous donation from Rotary Club of East Portland, Multnomah County ARES will be able to purchase four sets of pac-ket radio system accessories to complete emergency packet capa-bilities. The donation of $1084 from the Rotary's Disaster Relief Fund was designated for the pur-chase of TNCs and power sup-plies, to be installed in each of the four Portland Fire Bureau Battal-lion Headquarters Stations.

These designated ARES funds will be kept in a separate PARC account from the General Fund.  Details of this transaction will appear in next month's issue of the sPARC gap.

Member News

NB7F is the callsign of PARC's newest Extra Class member. You may know him as KD7CTF, Lee Hopper, a past Treasurer of PARC and a member of the Repeater Committee.  Lee is a first class kit builder, having assembled almost every piece of QRP and VHF gear in his SE Portland shack. In addition, Lee has assembled key components for the control systems for our repeaters and has done a fine job. Lee is active mostly on QRP CW with his Elecraft K2, one of the first K2 kits in this area.  See his photo at http://www.QRZ.com.   Congratulations Lee!

-W7LT

Who Does What?


President: 
Ed Burress, KC7GFX
kc7gfx@arrl.net

Vice President
John Pinkerton, K7ZSK

Recording Secretary:

Treasurer, Station Trustee:
Pete Rodabaugh, W7PR
w7pr@arrl.net

Membership Secretary:
Pat Kennedy, KD7HDP
kd7hdp@arrl.net

Trustee (1 year): 
Bert Younglove, WA7AXO
wa7axo@arrl.net

Trustee (3 year): 
John White, K7RUN

Jdwhite@teleport.com

Publicity/Newsletter: 
H. Lea T. Ball, AL7W
al7w@arrl.net

Volunteer Examers: 
Bruce McCain, N7XB
N7xb@arrl.net

QSL Manager:

PARCNET Manager:
Pete Rodabaugh, W7PR

Social Activities:

Club E-mail:
w7lt@arrl.net


Please note that there are a few  positions that are not filled in this list.  We would encourage anyone with the time and energy to assist with the decision-making pro-cesses of the club to please step forward, with the thanks of the other officers, directors and committee chairs of the club.

Ad Rates


dvertising insertion rates are based on the column inch, based on a column width of 3 1/2 inches for all advertising.

The standard rate (12 insertions per year of the same copy) is billed at $24.00 per column inch for one year's insertions.  For example, a Business Card ad is 2 column inches, and would be billed at $48.00 for the year.  Space sold for full page-width ads (half and full-page ads) will be billed at twice the number of vertical inches of the layout (7 1/2" wide by either 5 or 10 inches for half or full-page insertions, respectively).

Copy preparation is the responsibility of the advertiser.  Advertising contracts are available by emailing the Treasurer, and insertion rates are payable in advance.