PARC VE Session and General Meeting Friday, March 21, Testing at 1830, Meeting at 1930.  One Liberty Center, 650 N.E. Holladay St., Portland.  See announcement, page 1 for program details.

Multnomah County ARES Meet-ing  Thursday, March 27th at Fire Station 2, 4800 NE 122nd, at 7 PM  All hams are invited to attend!  (ARES is the Amateur Radio Emer-gency Service which rovides vital volunteer communications during natural and manmade disasters.)

PARC Board of Directors Meet-ing, March 24th @ 7PM--Round Table Pizza, 6250 SE Foster Rd.  Open to all members to attend.

Copy deadline for the sPARC gap, Friday, March 28.  Copy must be either in hand with the Editor or must be committed by this date.

Club Breakfast, Saturday, April 5, 9 a.m. at Old Country Buffet, 10542 SE 105th, Portland (just east of Mall 205).

Red Cross Exercise, Saturday, April 5, 10 a.m., Greater Gresham Baptist Church, 3848 N.E. Division, Building A, Gresham, OR.  (See article about this event on page 4).

OSB Alumni Net       
Sundays at 6 PM                  146.840
Handi Hams Net
Sundays at 7 PM                  146.840
PARCNET
Mondays at 7 PM                146.840
ARES Net           
Wednesdays at 7 PM           146.840
ARES D1 Net 
Nightly at 7:30 147.320/146.840 alt   
NW Traffic/Training 

Nightly at 6:05 PM     146.800 MHz

YL Net (2 Rivers)   
Wed at 8:30 PM            147.24 MHz
NW Swap& Shop   
Sat at 9 AM                   146.80 MHz
CW Net (HVSSN)   
Mon-Fri at 7 PM           28.130 MHz

W7LT/R                    146.840  voice
W7LT/R                    146.940  voice
W7LT/R                 147.180   packet
PARC   144.910   packet BBS, node

Richard Booth, W7VPV
Portland, OR

Dick Bass, W7SMR   
Milwaukie, OR

Dennis Newton, AC7UY
Portland, OR

Byron Windhorst, KD7NWV
Portland, OR

ARC Life Member Kevin Hunt,  WA7VTD, has been appointed as  Assistant Section Manager by Oregon Section Manager Marshall Johnson, KK7CW.  An attorney and ARRL volunteer Counsel, Kevin joined PARC in 1984, served as PARC President 1993-94, and at various times has represented PARC in legislative and administrative matters, as well as representing individual amateurs in tower proceedings. Kevin was instrumental in drafting the amateur-friendly Gresham and Oregon City tower ordinances, and chaired the PARC Tower Defense Committee that achieved deletion of prohibitive requirements from Portland's Buildings Bureau policies affecting ham towers. An Extra Class licensee, Kevin drafted the first charter of the Friendship Amateur Radio Society (FARS) after returning with other PARC members from the first Friendship Radiosports Games held in Khabarovsk, former Soviet Union, in 1989. FARS now has chapters in the USA, Russia, Canada and Japan, and Kevin served as FARS International Secretary from 1995-99. He continues to serve as FARS USA's General Counsel. Kevin also has served as EC/RO for Oregon City ARES/RACES since 1997. Kevin would like all PARC members to know that he will be always available to field questions, complaints, and suggestions concerning the Oregon ARRL Field Organization. He may be contacted at wa7vtd@arrl.net.

-W7LT