Welcome to the ARRL Oregon Section website My goal is to make sure this website is always current during my term(s) as section manager. I want to have as many communication methods available as possible to hear what you in the Oregon section have to say. This is one of many ways for me to hear you. I welcome any suggestions for content. With the help of the section leadership, it will be added to continually. I look forward to working with you and am making plans to visit all the affiliated clubs in the state during my first year in office and hope to be able to participate in some of your activities. I have visited some ARES groups as well.
Also please keep in mind that this website is a work in progress and we will do our best to keep it updated with the information provided by our amateur radio community. Currently login access is limited to the Oregon cabinet. As we make more features available you will be notified via the arrloregon Yahoo Group. Join the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arrloregon/.
I also send regular informational emails to the yahoo group. Most of what I send will appear in the next SM report, but by being in the yahoo group, you get advance notice of the news.
I hope you all participated and had a good time at Field Day. My wife and I spent the day at LL Stub Stewart State Park with the Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Club. It was allot of fun even though the temperature was in the high 90's.
Sea-Pac was a great success again this year with record numbers being tossed around despite the high fuel prices. The Seaside Tsunami Amateur Radio Society (STARS) reports that the Spaghetti Feed Fund raiser on that Friday was a great success. 350 folks turned out for the event, 230 of those were hams. The event was sponsored by STARS and the Sunset Empire Amateur Radio Club (SEARC).
I'd like to welcome a new club in Eastern Oregon. The Grand Ronde Radio Amateurs Association (GRRAA) in La Grande. They have 16 members and have formed a four-man Extra class VE team to fill the gap between Pendleton and Walla Walla, and are under the ARRL VEC. The GRRAA club meetings are at 7 PM on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Grande Ronde Hospital. GRRAA is in the process of becoming an ARRL affiliated club.
The Coos County Radio Club's Hamfest and swap meet will be from 9 AM until 3 PM on July 19th at the North Bend Middle School near Pony Village. For more information contact Marilyn, KE7OAM, ke7oam@yahoo.com.
The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club (MARC) Wireless reports that the "Final Friday" Pizza feed is at 7 PM on July 25 at Izzy's Pizza in McMinnville. This is a no host, no business event.
Another monthly gathering is held by the Lincoln City Amateur Radio Club. For the past 30 years the club has been gathering on the first Saturday of the month at 7 AM. The breakfast is held at Sambo's Restaurant located near the north end of town at 3262 NE Hwy 101. This is an informal group and they gather in the private dining room toward the back of the restaurant. Visitors are welcome, so the next time you are in Lincoln City on the first Saturday of the month, feel free to come by for a visit.
The Pacific Northwest DX Convention will be August 1, 2, & 3 at the Monarch Hotel in Clackamas. This is the 53rd annual event, which rotates between Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Saturday night the well known contester Tom Taormina, K5RC/W7RN is the featured banquet speaker and will explain "Building Your Dream Station, without Divorce." For more information, please check the Willamette Valley DX Club website at: www.wvdxc.org.
The Oregon Coast Repeater Group reports that a new call sign will soon be on the Mt. Hebo, 147.220 repeater. After the software is updated, the new call will be W7HNR, which was the call sign of Ed Weston who first built the repeater in the early '70s.
Stay cool and 73 for now.
Pat Roberson, N7PAT Assistant Section Manager - Administrative
Posted by Pat Roberson on Monday 30 June 2008 - 08:30:00
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Sunday 29 June 2008
The Dalles Field Day
In The Dalles "GEARS" club had our tent setup at River Front Park in The Dalles. The weather was HOT but no wind, which made it seem even HOTTER.
We started our setup at about 8:45 Saturday morning and on the air by 11:00. We had 100% participation from the membership, all 5 of use. We operated as KE7EEM class 1A and last time I saw the log we where working toward 200 contacts.
The last 2 hours or so we had 3 YL's stop by. They and there mother have come to 2 GEAR meetings in the past and this was the girls first time on the air. Let me tell you if you would like Field Day connects get 3 cute young ladies' to call CQ and send out 88's not just 73's for the club. It was all Hugh KF7LN could do to keep the log up to date. We are looking forward to having this family as members of the HAM community. Field Day has all 3 of YL's fired up and ready to take the test, so in my opinion we had a GREAT Field Day in The Dalles.
We shut the radio down at 11:00 am Sunday and where packed and out of the park by Noon. I'm looking forward the next year in this hobby and I can hardly wait for FIELD DAY 2009.
John - KE7OMP
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Sunday 29 June 2008 - 20:57:10
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This is a link to a few photos taken at the Treasure Valley Radio Association Field Day event held at the Washington County, Idaho Court House in Weiser, ID. It was a successful event and nearly everyone who wanted to participate was able to and make contacts too. The club operated under the club call sign of K7OJI and a recently licensed Ham managed the Get On the Air station. As this location is a county EOC RACES station with emergency power facilities we operated as "2F".
73 Ron Morell KA7U
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Sunday 29 June 2008 - 19:22:10
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Posted by Bonnie Altus on Friday 20 June 2008 - 20:25:10
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Sunday 15 June 2008
Marine Radio Historical Society 'Night of Nights" event
The annual Maritime Radio Historical Society 'Night of Nights' event is less than one month away.
Every year on 12 July (US time) many famous coast stations return to the air to commemorate the closure of commercial Morse in the USA. This year stations KPH, KFS, KSM and KLB have confirmed they will be on the air. We hope that US Coast Guard stations NMC, NOJ and NMN will join us as they did last year.
Amateur station K6KPH will guard 3550, 7050 and 14050kc for reception reports.
Check back often for updated information as it becomes available.
If you would like to receive announcements like this and are not already a member of our mailing list just send a message to: radiomarine-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
VY 73,
RD
================================= Richard Dillman, W6AWO Chief Operator, Coast Station KSM Maritime Radio Historical Society http://www.radiomarine.org =================================
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Sunday 15 June 2008 - 13:33:10
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Monday 09 June 2008
Douglas County ARES Press Release
Date / Time of Release: 06/09/2008 - 11:45 hours Contact Person: Sgt. David Marshall Contact Number: 541-957-4894 Subject: Emergency Locator Transmitter sounding Date / Time of Incident: 06/07/2008 - 18:17 hours Incident Location: 2151 Aviation Blvd., Roseburg, OR Case Number: None Mentioned: Douglas County Sheriff Amateur Radio Emergency Services - ARES (often referred to as "Ham Radio")
On June 7, 2008 at 1817 hours a volunteer member of the Douglas County Sheriff's ARES was driving his personally owned vehicle on Interstate 5 near Roseburg and picked up an aircraft Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) signal on his radio. Several of the ARES members monitor this frequency. This is a signal that goes off in the event of an airplane crash.
The volunteer reported the incident to Douglas County Communications and began trying to locate where the signal was coming from. With the help of another member of ARES, the signal was determined to be coming from the Roseburg Airport. It was tracked to a specific hanger at the airport.
The investigation determined that the ELT that was going off was the same ELT from the plane crash that had occurred on May 26, 2008 involving Mr. Lloyd (handled by the Roseburg Police Department). It appeared that Mr. Lloyd was showing the wreckage to some friends and someone picked up or moved the ELT and accidently set it off. The ELT was turned off and the batteries were removed to avoid any future incidents.
Usually, the Sheriff's Office is notified by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC), however in this case it was discovered before being reported by the AFRCC.
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Monday 09 June 2008 - 19:56:10
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Coos County ARES/RACES Report
Training this month was on the NVIS antennas.
We supported a 100K bicycle ride which exercised net operations with tactical calls.
The county had a tabletop Wild land fire-urban interface exercise in May which will be continued with a functional version on June 10th. It involved a hazardous material, lack of common frequencies in responding agencies, a cell phone dead area, a blocked highway requiring need to provide communications between a north and south team, and occurred at night. I felt that this was beyond our ability to support safely and well, so requested ARESMAT support. I was pleasantly surprised to find that they have several communications vans that have interoperability, satellite and other capabilities. Its good to know that we can call upon this kind of support.
Dan Bissell, W7WVF Coos County ARES EC
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Monday 09 June 2008 - 19:45:10
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Wednesday 04 June 2008
Field Day Sites
Pat Roberson, N7PAT, has collected information on some field day sites in Oregon.
Umpqua Valley ARC will have field day at Whistler's Bend park on the North Umpqua river 15 miles northeast of Roseburg.
Wayne Estes W9AE
The Central Oregon DX Club will be holding its FD operation at the Bear Creek Middle school in Bend.
Dick Richard Frey - K4XU
The Coos County Radio Club will be holding it's Field Day at Bastendorff Beach County Park, just south of Charleston, at the entrance to Coos Bay.
We plan to have shelters, power systems, antennas and the talk-in radio up and tested by Friday night. We plan on having 2 HF stations on the air. One for the GOTA (social) station set up in the pavillian at the park as well as a contester's station for the serious folks in our shelter.
We have two camping spaces left for Friday and Saturday nights. We'll have a potluck early Saturday afternoon as well as a Sunday breakfast.
If you need more info, please let me know.
73's
Dell Mansker, KE7EIB Field Day Chairman Coos County Radio Club
The Southern Oregon ARC will again be holding their Field Day operation in June and has already received permission from the County Parks Dept to use Schroeder Park which is just west of Grants Pass and on the Rogue River.
I am the club secretary and newsletter editor but will be happy to serve as the contact person.
By the way for the past few years we have operated the 7QP event from the same site. We feel it is valuable to "shake out the kinks" for Field Day.
We understand that there are some changes to the FD rules this year but we haven't studied them in detail yet.
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Wednesday 04 June 2008 - 21:19:10
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CoCoHaHS - Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network
This link to a New Program by the NWS was supplied by Gary Cooper, N7ZHG, the DEC (District Emergency Coordinator) for District 3. It will be of interest to the Skywarn folks.
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Wednesday 04 June 2008 - 18:19:10
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
Seminar on Pendleton SKYWARN HF Net at SEA-PAC
Seminar on Pendleton SKYWARN HF Net at SEA-PAC on May 31
I will be presenting a seminar on the Pendleton SKYWARN HF Net at the SEA-PAC Ham Radio Convention in Seaside, Oregon on Saturday, May 31, at 1:00 PM PDT.
The seminar will be very informative.
I hope to see you there!
73, Alan Polan, KE4TRR Pendleton SKYWARN HF Net SKYWARN Program Coordinator National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Pendleton, Oregon Phone: 541-276-4493 (select option # 2 to speak to a live person) Email: Alan.Polan@noaa.gov
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Wednesday 28 May 2008 - 18:34:10
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Section Manager Bonnie M. Altus, AB7ZQ 7770 Harmony Rd Sheridan, OR 97378-9689 (971) 237-0711, (503) 843-3580 ab7zq@arrl.org
Assistant Section Managers Communications Training Coordinator Dean W Davis, N7XG 3596 Karen Ave S Salem, OR 97302-5620 (503) 540-3270 dean@alpinesoft.com
ARRL Membership Development Everett W Curry Jr, W6ABM 1546 NE Greensword Dr Hillsboro, OR 97124-6139 (503) 681-2345 w6abm@arrl.net
Eastern Oregon and North Central Oregon Phil Hawkins, KC7KI 1689 NE 2nd Pl Hermiston, OR 97838-1382 (541) 567-0399 kc7ki@arrl.net
Southwestern Oregon Dan Bissell, W7WVF 53516 Forest Road Bandon, OR 97411 (541)347-4580 dbissell@harborside.com
Southeastern Oregon Edward C Ewell, K7DXV 6719 Beckton Ave Klamath Falls, OR 97603-4192 (541) 884-3392 k7dxv@arrl.net
Central Oregon Drew Holmes, W7GER PO Box 2003 Sisters, OR 97759-2003 (541)549-6321 w7ger@arrl.net
Youth and Mentoring Russ Mickiewicz, N7QR Box 25051 Portland, OR 97298 (503)295-5704 n7qr@arrl.net
Administrative Pat Roberson, N7PAT 18230 SW Broad Oak Court Aloha, OR 97007 (503)848-2283 n7pat@arrl.net
Affiliated Club Coordinator Willard A Sheffield, N7THL 19580 SW Longacre Ct Aloha, OR 97006-2482 (503) 642-7314 n7thl@juno.com
Official Observer Coordinator Edward C Ewell, K7DXV 6719 Beckton Ave Klamath Falls, OR 97603-4192 (541) 884-3392 ewell2@charter.net
Public Information Coordinator J. Steven Sanders, KE7JSS 1602 NE Orenco Station Pkwy Hillsboro, OR 97124. (503) 320-4100 ke7jss@arrl.net
Section Emergency Coordinator and State RACES Officer William P Morris, W7IH 12255 NE Parrett Mountain Rd Newberg, OR 97132-6995 (503) 625-7647 w7ih@arrl.net
State Government Liaison Kevin E Curry, KA7KYQ 8774 SW Bellflower St Tigard, OR 97224-5211 (503) 624-9971 curry.k@gmail.com
Section Traffic Manager D Scott Gray, W7IZ 24230 Deer Hill Rd Clatskanie, OR 97016-2558 (503) 728-4793 w7iz@clatskanie.com
Technical Coordinator Lynn C Hurd, WB7UNU 14145 SW 117th Ave Tigard, OR 97224-2805 (503) 624-1999 lynn.c.hurd@exgate.tek.com
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