February, 2004 

the sPARC gap

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Handi Hams Net
Sundays at 7 p.m. 146.840
OSB Alumni Net       
Sundays at 8 p.m. 146.840
PARCNET
Mondays at 7 p.m. 146.840
6-Meter SSB
Mondays at 8:00 p.m. 50.140
2-Meter SSB
Mondays at 8:30 p.m. 144.240
Multnomah County ARES Net           
Wednesdays at 7 p.m. 146.840
UHF SSB
Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. 432.125
ARES D1 Net 
Nightly at 7:30 147.320/146.840 alt   
NW Traffic/Training (107.2 Hz.)

Nightly at 6:05 p.m. 146.80

YL Net (2 Rivers)   
Wed at 8:30 p.m. 147.24
NW Swap& Shop (107.2 Hz. Tone)
Sat at 9 a.m. 146.80
CW Net (HVCWN)   

PARC VE Session and General Meeting Friday, February 20. Testing at 6:30, Meeting at 7:30.  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.

Multnomah County ARES Meeting  Thursday,  February 26, at Fire Station 2, 4800 NE 122nd, at 7:00.  All hams are invited to attend! 

PARC Board of Directors Meeting, Monday, February 23, at 7:00 on Mt. Scott, 9700 SE Eastview Drive. Open to all members to attend.

Copy deadline for the sPARC gap, Friday, February 27.  Copy must be either in hand with the Editor or must be committed by this date.

Club Breakfast, Saturday, March 6, at 9 a.m., at Home Town Buffet, 10542 SE Washington St., Portland (just east of Mall 205).

hile the year 2004 is still pretty young, we are in our perennial crunch in finding meeting programs for the rest of the year.  This month we're doing one on Scouting and Amateur Radio, next month is slated to be one on repeaters; but after March, we're kinda stuck.  What we'd really like to know is what you, the rank and file members of PARC, would like to see for programs at the rest of the year's meetings.

Some topics come to mind right away; but others may not be so obvious.  We haven't had a program on weak-signal VHF activity for a very long time.  We also haven't had one recently on the gear that's currently available for sale.  Now that we've proven the feasibility of setting up HF operations from the auditorium where we meet (plus or minus coax loss), this might be a good one.  There was a recent meeting of the ARRL Board, and Greg Milnes promised us a report on that in his article last month (here's hoping that his recovery from his unfortunate happenstance of Christmas day is progressing).  With the Friendship Radiosport Games coming up, it might be worth our while to have a program on DF-ing by international rules.  Those are the thoughts of one member of the club.

There is one gimme in the whole program situation:  In June, the club is probably going to meet and hold our elections at the Field Day site at Kelly Butte.  Typically, that meeting's program has to do with contest operation and Field Day issues.

Anyone with concrete proposals for meeting programs should get hold of John Rollins, KD7BCY.  As Vice President, he's also the club's Activities Manager, and meeting programs fall in the sphere of his responsibility.  He can best be reached at kd7bcy@hotmail.com.

-W7LT

Portland Amateur Radio Club, Inc.- W7LT
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