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I am scheduled for surgery at the hospital in McMinnville on May 31st and expect to be in the hospital for 2-3 days and have at least a 3-4 week recovery afterwards. Fortunately Mark is a good cook and will take care me! All tests so far have come with good results so I expect the results of all this will be good but it is a situation I need to take care of as soon as possible in order to make sure nothing serious is wrong. I felt it was important to take the earliest surgery date I was offered. I will provide more of an update after I am home from the hospital and plan to send out the June section news while I am relaxing in my recliner recovering from surgery. This will be the first surgery I have had in my entire life so this will be a new experience for me. Because of the expected recovery period I will probably need to stay close to home for field day instead of traveling to other areas of the state as I had planned.I believe that most of the section appointees will be at SeaPac so feel free to visit with them about their activities in the section. They are listed here:Assistant Section Manager - ARRL Membership Development - Everett W Curry Jr, W6ABMAssistant Section Manager - Southwestern Oregon - Dan Bissell, W7WVFAssistant Section Manager - Youth and Mentoring - Russ Mickiewicz, N7QRAssistant Section Manager - Administrative - Pat Roberson, W7PATAffiliated Club Coordinator - Dan Bathurst, WA7ABUOfficial Observer Coordinator - Everett W Curry Jr, W6ABMSection Emergency Coordinator - Vince VanDerHyde, K7VVState Government Liaison - Kevin E Curry, KA7KYQSection Traffic Manager - D Scott Gray, W7IZTechnical Coordinator - Ron Fial, KO7VI pulled out a couple of interesting announcement from my email. Earlier this year I was notified that the Seaside Tsunami Amateur Radio Society had elected all women board. I suspect this is somewhat unusual in ham radio. Their board members are: President Pat Love KE7RBM Vice-President Terry Williams KE7QFR Secretary Carolyn Lee KE7OXP Treasurer Vianne Patterson KE7ZFM Below is the current Oregon STM report.OREGON STM REPORT FOR APRIL 2012:MAY 11, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------NET ACTIVITY FOR APRIL 2012: ALL NETS HAD 30 SESSIONS EXCEPT OEN WHICH HAD 60OREGON EMERGENCY NET: QNI 7317, QTC 10, KG7UY NET MGRBEAVER STATE NET: QNI 611, QTC 121, KK7TN NET MGROREGON SECTION NET #1: QNI 184, QTC 48, WS7L NET MGROREGON SECTION NET #2: QNI 116, QTC 93, KC7SRL NET MGRNORTHWEST TRAFFIC AND TRAINING NET: QNI 504, QTC 119, N7YSS NET MGR--------------------------------------------------------------------------------STATION ACTIVITY REPORTS FOR APRIL 2012: W7IZ 264, K7IFG 234, K7EAJ 190, N7YSS 115, N7CM 85, KC7SRL 53, KK7DEB 40, W7ELI 26, WS7L 22, W7VSE 15--------------------------------------------------------------------------------PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL FOR APRIL 2012: KD7THV 285**Congrats on your new General ticket, Rick!!, N7CM 170, K7EAJ 160, KK7DEB 120, N7XG 110, N7YSS 110, KK7TN 100 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thanks to all who reported this month!! Hope to see you at SeaPac Saturday morning, NTS has a meeting in the Sea Mist Room from 10:30 till Noon. 73/Scott Gray W7IZOregon Section Traffic MgrPlease feel free to contact me at any time.Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQOregon Section Manager http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Fri, 11 May 2012 19:41:31 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.329.8 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.327.10 OREGON STM REPORT FOR APRIL 2012:MAY 11, 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NET ACTIVITY FOR APRIL 2012: ALL NETS HAD 30 SESSIONS EXCEPT OEN WHICH HAD 60 OREGON EMERGENCY NET: QNI 7317, QTC 10, KG7UY NET MGRBEAVER STATE NET: QNI 611, QTC 121, KK7TN NET MGROREGON SECTION NET #1: QNI 184, QTC 48, WS7L NET MGROREGON SECTION NET #2: QNI 116, QTC 93, KC7SRL NET MGRNORTHWEST TRAFFIC AND TRAINING NET: QNI 504, QTC 119, N7YSS NET MGR-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATION ACTIVITY REPORTS FOR APRIL 2012: W7IZ 264K7IFG 234K7EAJ 190N7YSS 115N7CM 85KC7SRL 53KK7DEB 40W7ELI 26WS7L 22W7VSE 15-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLIC SERVICE HONOR ROLL FOR APRIL 2012: KD7THV 285**Congrats on your new General ticket, Rick!!N7CM 170K7EAJ 160KK7DEB 120N7XG 110N7YSS 110KK7TN 100 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to all who reported this month!! Hope to see you at SeaPac Saturday morning, NTS has a meeting in the Sea Mist Room from 10:30 till Noon. 73/Scott Gray W7IZOregon Section Traffic Mgr http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Fri, 11 May 2012 19:40:22 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.327.10 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.326.1 Each summer the ARRL offers multiple sessions of the Teachers Institute (TI) on Wireless Technology, a 4 day expenses paid professional development seminar.  TI has provided teachers from elementary school to the university level with tools and strategies to introduce basic electronics, the science of radio, space technology, satellite communications, weather science, as well as micro-controllers and basic robotics in their classrooms. The goal of the TI program is to equip each teacher with necessary foundational knowledge, hands-on learning, and generate the inspiration for teachers to continue to explore wireless technology and adapt relevant content into their classroom instruction. The cost is virtually free for the participants and graduate credits are available through Fresno Pacific University. Participants are expected to be able to complete all requirements during the class time. To qualify, applicants must be an active teacher at an elementary, middle, high school or at a community college or university, or in a leadership or enrichment instruction roll in an after-school program.  An Amateur Radio license is NOT required. For more information or brochure, contact them at etp@arrl.org [Submitted by W7PAT] http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:26:17 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.326.1 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.328.19 The Seaside Tsunami Amateur Radio Society had an all women board. I All women board of directors for the STARS club in Seaside, Oregon. All elected for the 2012 year.President Pat Love KE7RBM Vice-President Terry Williams KE7QFR Secretary Carolyn Lee KE7OXP Treasurer Vianne Patterson KE7ZFM http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:31 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.328.19 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.325.8 Ron Fial, KO7V, has agreed to assume the position of Technical Coordinator for the Oregon Section.Ron was licensed as a Novice in 1958.  In the 1960's he was KH6HDX in Hawaii and handled a lot of phone patches from Vietnam to the States.  He continues to be active on the ham bands.  He is a CW operator and operates HF and VHF at home, at a vacation cabin, mobile, and aeronautical mobile. He will be operating 40 meter CW at the Salem Amateur Radio Clubs field day site.He is familiar with HF, VHF, Microwave communications, antennas and propagation.  He has designed and built CW and SSB transceivers and power amplifiers, antennas, installed towers, rotators, dealt with RFI issues, magnetic and electrostatic shielding, exposure levels and more.  He has run a lot of equipment through FCC part 15 certification and holds two U.S. Patents.  He has digital experience (RTTY, PSK31), is experience in computers and IP networks.  He has set up firewalls, domain controllers, websites, web servers, email servers, email reflectors, discussion forum software, and has done programming in many computer languages.  He has taught classes in networking, routing, electronics for research and basic electronics.  He taught at Reed College in the 1970s and has a lot of public speaking experience with business clients.In his day job, he sets up and tests commercial microwave radios and fiber switching equipment in a lab environments.  He designs analog and digital electronics for communications sites and satellite-uplink sites, most for monitoring and remote control.  More information about his work is in the products section at http://www.fial.com.Please welcome him to this position and let him know if you are interested in getting involved as a technical specialist in the section.Bonnie AB7ZQ [Submitted by Bonnie Altus] http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:00:22 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.325.8 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.324.8 Dan Bathurst, WA7ABU, has agreed to assume responsibility as the Oregon Section Affiliated Club Coordinator.  He knows a lot of people around the state and deals with a lot of email for various purposes on a regular basis in ham radio.If you have questions about club affiliation or becoming a special service club, feel free to contact him for direction.Will Sheffield, N7THL, did a great job in this position for many years, during a time when quite a few new clubs became affiliated.  During that time, there was a lot of work tracking down clubs that either did not realize they needed to renew their affiliation or who will having trouble figuring out how to accomplish that and needed assistance.Bonnie AB7ZQ[Submitted by Bonnie Altus] http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:00:22 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.324.8 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.322.1 It is with great sadness that I relay the following information. Andrew"Drew" Holmes W7GER, Deschutes County Emergency Coordinator (EC), District2 Emergency Coordinator (DEC), fellow ham, and good friend has passedaway. For those of you that knew Drew, you knew him to be a fun guy to bearound even as he focused on the job at hand, whatever it may have been.Drew was an active and vital part of everything that took place in the hamradio community in Deschutes County. Drew had a positive impact in everyactivity he participated in and I for one will miss him greatly! Drew wasa loving Christian, and is now with our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.I encourage all of you to pray for his family, friends, and loved onesduring this sad and trying time.I don't currently have any information regarding funeral arrangements andmemorial services etc. As soon as we have that information, we will passit on to all of you.Sincerely,Jeffery H. Moore -- KE7ACYPresident - High Desert Amateur Radio Group http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Pat Roberson<n7pat@nospam.com> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:52:58 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.322.1 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.319.26 Nature of Activity (Check One): Communications Emergency. Amateurs supplied communications required to replace or supplement normal communications means.Brief description of activity: : At 1152 hrs 12/14/10, and F1 tornado touched down on the south Clackamas & north Marion Co line causing moderate damage in Aumsville, OR. Clackamas Co ARES personnel responded to our primary frequency per SOP when the EAS warning alerts activated . We maintained a WX net for an hour with spotter and damage reports to the NWS HQ as required until the alerts/warnings were cancelled. NWS - Portland was monitoring our primary frequencies Had (6) NWS trained weather spotters ready to deploy mobile if needed Places or areas involved:: Clackamas Co ORNumber of amateurs participating: : 28Event start date/time: : 1152 12/14/10Event end date/time: : 1300 12/14/10Duration of event (hours): : 1Total person hours:: 28Number of repeaters used: : 2Estimated person-power cost: $: 532.00Estimated cost of equipment used: $: 24,800Total estimated cost of service: $: 25,332Nets and/or frequencies used (including repeater call signs): :Clackamas Co ARES primary - 147.12 (K7RPT)OR ARES District-1 primary - 147.32 (K7RPT)Number of messages handled: : tactical onlyNames of agencies receiving communications support: : U. S. National Weather Service - PortlandClackamas Co Office of Emergency ManagementPlease list call signs of amateurs who were major participants: :KA7OZO, KN1X, KE7GXC, KE7GVX, KD7BTL, KD7LBM, N7CGI, KD7RTE, KA7UQO, KD7BRL, KB7JQPOther comments: : I had (6) personnel ready to go mobile to spot if necessary during this event. The NWS HQ monitors various District-1 frequencies at their ham station during WX event. This was a wellexecuted operation and all amateur functions, SOPs, and equipment worked properly. The Clackamas Co OEM was notified of our activities.Name of Amateur Radio organization providing service: : Clackamas Co ARES, Clackamas Co, ORLocation of organization: City, Town or State: Oregon City, ORYour name: : David KiddYour Call Sign: : KA7OZOARRL appointment, if any: : EC, Clackamas Co, OR / DEC OR District-1Signature (please enter your full name) : DAVID MICHAEL KIDDYour E-Mail Address: ka7ozo@arrl.net http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:00:22 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.319.26 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.318.1 Calling all Operators….. Calling all Operators....The Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race would like to invite Amateur Radio Operators to join us for the January 2011 Sled Dog Race. During January, Volunteers and spectators gather in Joseph, Enterprise and Halfway Oregon to support the running of the Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race. This Race brings Mushers and their Teams from across the country to run through the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, which contains the Eagle Cap Wilderness, for both a 100 and 150 mile event. The Race is a Qualifier for the legendary Races in Alaska and Canada, the Iditarod and Yukon Quest respectively.For safety and logistic support, Checkpoints are established across the Trail with the 2011 proposed Checkpoints being Salt Creek Summit and Ollokot Campground, and a possible remote checkpoint.. Headquarters for the Race are located in Joseph at two diverse locations. These Checkpoints will be staffed with Volunteers to provide Shelter, Food, Veterinarian care, Logistic support, snow-machiner transportation and of course a multi-layered Communications Network. Race organizers recognize the proven success of amateur radio and are counting more than ever on another first rate operation! We are excited to invite Amateur Radio Operators to provide vital Communication support to the event. This year, we invite experienced Amateur Radio Operators to exercise their Net skills in an exciting winter community service setting. The Checkpoint Communications Volunteer will be vital to passing 3rd party traffic as well as providing support of critical situations and SAR efforts. Law Enforcement from Wallowa and Baker County, SAR Teams and US Forest Service personnel regularly participate as Volunteers and in a professional role during the Race. The Communication Volunteers are vital to providing real time information and coordination for general messaging, Logistics and in support of critical situations through various and appropriate Communication modes.To learn more..please email me at ecxsafety@gmail.com for further information. 73s KK7JX Julian Pridmore-Brown ecxsafety@gmail.com http://www.arrloregon.org/comment.php?comment.news. Bonnie Altus<ab7zq@nospam.com> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:22:31 -0700 http://www.arrloregon.org/news.php?item.318.1