Salem Hamfair (Salem ARC)
Polk County Fairgrounds, Rickreal, Oregon, Saturday, Feb 15th.  Ticket sales at 8 AM, pickup open at 7 AM, doors open 9 AM.
Price $6 advance, $7 at the door
Call Denis @ 503-585-5338 or WC7M@arrl.net for more info
Website www.qsl.net/w7sra for registration form.

PARC VE Session and General Meeting Friday, February 21, Testing at 1830, Meeting at 1930.  One Liberty Center, 650 N.E. Holladay St., Portland.  Lower level, entrance from the south side of the building.  See announcement, page 1 for program details.

PARC Board of Directors Meeting, Date, time and location TBA.  Open to all members to attend.

Copy deadline for the sPARC gap, Friday, February 28.

Multnomah County ARES Meeting  Thursday, February 27th 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 manmade disasters.)

Mike and Key ARC Electronics Show  Western Washington Fairgrounds, Puyallup Washington.
Saturday, March 8th, Tickets $6, Doors open at 9 a.m.  Advance ticket sales: Mail-in registration form at www.mikeandkey.com

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he January meeting of Multnomah County ARES/RACES was held on January 23^rd at the Portland Fire Bureau training center. The meetings are usually held on the fourth Thursdays of the month, starting at 7 p.m. and last approximately two hours. This month's topics included the necessity of a telephone tree and the best way to implement a workable model for our group. While a final draft was not assem-bled at the meeting, ideas for its completion were discussed. The new training manual updates were presented and handed out to participants needing them while those not having any of the mater-ials were treated to complete copies. To obtain these materials you can get them at the meetings or contact KK7UE for instructions on how to do so. Also discussed was the upcoming 'Quakex 03' SET exercise coming up in April. .This exercise is a FEMA region X exercise that will be run through-out the Northwest and Alaska. Our exact level of involvement hasn't been determined yet but hopefully that will all be worked out soon.

Stay tuned to the vhf ARES net for details to come. The ID card issue is progressing along with a few persistent glitches that should be rectified before spring. Most folks have been set up and are current. A demonstration of packet com-munication was set up on two different computers and those interested in that had fun. Mel, K7MBI, brought along his SSTV handhelds and the group had lots of fun sending and receiving the pictures. Amateurs interested in ARES within the metropolitan area are encouraged to contact me  at kk7ue@arrl.net or via telephone at 503-280-2283 evenings.

-KK7UE