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 primarily to the Oregon section cabinet. I am beginning to provide access to individuals designated by the DEC's for updating ARES-related information. 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. Much 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 also forward messages that come from the ARRL to section managers that may be of interest as well.
Tuesday 07 September 2010
Douglas County OADN Connectivity Test and Report
GENERAL MESSAGE __________________________________________________________________________________________
TO: K7AZW, Lee Stumpe, Dist. 5 DEC, NB70, Kevin Hedgepeth, Oregon SEC, AB7ZQ, Bonnie Altus, Oregon Section Manager __________________________________________________________________________________________
FROM: Jerry Eifert, AE7ER POSITION: Emergency Coordinator, Douglas County ARES __________________________________________________________________________________________
SUBJECT: Quarterly Connectivity Test and Report DATE/TIME: September 7, 2010 __________________________________________________________________________________________
MESSAGE: Douglas County Amateur Radio Emergency Services Quarterly Report Douglas County ARES September, 2010 1) Active Members: 22 active members have completed ICS 100, 200, & 700. Total Membership: 38 2) Projected Training Topics for the next three months: A)Digital Airmail training on governor's Grant equipment for general and extra class amateur radio operators to become comfortable operating the equipment, preparing messages from address book templates, and utilizing vhf packet and HF pactor. B) ARES Meeting & Training September 11, 2010 @0900 hrs. C) Move into Reedsport Emergency Operations Center Building and install Governor's Grant Equipment. D) Paint, Patch, & Picnic; Work on new ARES Comm. Bldg. on Lane Mt. E) County wide Galesville Dam breach exercise, October 5th, 2010 from 0800 to 1400 hrs. F) 2010 ARRL S.E.T. October 2-3
VHF & HF Net Information:
Local ARES Net every Monday evening, 1900 hrs. on 145.430 Mhz. (-), 88.5 Hz. Alternate repeater is 146.900 Mhz. (-) 100 Hz. tone
HF Nets: District 5 HF net on Monday evenings, 1800 hrs., 3964 Khz. Oregon ARES Leadership Net, first and third Tuesday evening at 1900 hrs. on 1978 Khz. __________________________________________________________________________________________
S-SIGNATURE: /S/ Jerry Eifert, AE7ER POSITION: Emergency Coordinator, Douglas County ARES __________________________________________________________________________________________
REPLY: Thank you Jerry, It is my understanding that Bonnie is going to start posting these training messages on the section website. woooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo __________________________________________________________________________________________
DATE/TIME: 7 September 2010/2340 S-SIGNATURE: /S/ Kevin Hedgepeth POSITION: ORARES SEC __________________________________________________________________________________________ AIRMAIL 213 TEMPLATE
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Tuesday 07 September 2010 - 18:30:22
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Friday 03 September 2010
Clatsop County OADN Quarterly Connectivity Test
GENERAL MESSAGE ________________________________________________________________________________
TO: Kevin Hedgepeth NB7O POSITION: State ARES Emergency Coordinator ________________________________________________________________________________
FROM: Roxann Holwege AB7HO POSITION:Clatsop County ARES ________________________________________________________________________________
Reporting County: Location of Station where this connectivity test was conducted:Clatsop County EOC Callsign used in OADN quarterly connectivity test:N7AST
A. Oregon ARES Digital Network HF Pactor Station Connectivity Test 1.) Station Contacted (W7ODN or K7ODN):Could not contact either station 2.) Date of Contact:attempt made 3 Sept 2010 3.) Time of Contact: 4.) Frequency/Band: 5.) Maximum Throughput observed in Airmail:
B. Winlink (non-OADN) HF Pactor Station Connectivity Test 1.) Station Contacted:K7DAV 2.) Date of Contact:3 Sept 2010 3.) Time of Contact:1531 hours 4.) Frequency/Band:7064.40 USB / 40 Meters 5.) Maximum Throughput observed in Airmail: 301 bytes/ Minutes
C. Oregon ARES Digital Network Neighboring County VHF Packet Connectivity Test 1.) Neighbor county where gateway is located:Wahkiakum County Washington 2.) Station Callsign:K7GA-10 3.) Frequency:145.630 4.) Connection made via (enter direct or the specific path used):Via NM7R-8
D. Problems identified that can be solved locally We still need to improve the configuration of our HF antenna.
E. Problems identified that need follow-up by OADN Development Team None ________________________________________________________________________________
S-SIGNATURE: /S/Roxann Holwege AB7HO POSITION:Clatsop County ARES ________________________________________________________________________________
REPLY: Roxann, Thank you for the Qrtrly Report. Your information will be included in the next section report.
I concur that you may need to work on the HF antenna. You should be able to work W7ODN on 80M
When reporting the max throughput could you refer to the connection speed in the lower left corner of you window? This way I have consistent info to work with throughout the state. Thanks for your help with the cables at the Leadership Conference.
Seven three de ________________________________________________________________________________
DATE/TIME: 6 September 2010/1300 S-SIGNATURE: /S/ Kevin Hedgepeth POSITION: ORARES SEC ________________________________________________________________________________ AIRMAIL Qrtrly Report TEMPLATE
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Friday 03 September 2010 - 18:00:22
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Clatsop County Quarterly ARES Report via OADN
GENERAL MESSAGE __________________________________________________________________________________________
TO: Oregon Section ARES Leadership POSITION:Oregon SM, Oregon SEC, District 1 EC __________________________________________________________________________________________
FROM:Roxann Holwege AB7HO POSITION:Clatsop County ARES AEC (Training/Recruitment) __________________________________________________________________________________________
SUBJECT:OADN Connectivity Test DATE/TIME:Sept 3 2010 / 1515 hours __________________________________________________________________________________________
MESSAGE: 1) 54 ARES Members 2) Airmail Winlink Set-up, Winlink VHF Operation, Winlink HF Operation, WSPR 3) ARES VHF Nets a) 145.450 and 145.490 b) Monday and Wednesday (both 7 PM) c) Weekly 4) We are currently introducing ARES members as well as other county hams to WSPR, which was discussed at the Leadership Conference. We plan on participating in the December Mini-Set for WSPR. Jeff is arranging to get the WSPR Software on the County Computers for Ham Radio. __________________________________________________________________________________________
REPLY: Roxann, thank you for the update. look forward to hearing you on WSPR
Bonnie, can this update be posted along with the other reports that are coming in on the section website? __________________________________________________________________________________________
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Friday 03 September 2010 - 18:00:22
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Wednesday 01 September 2010
Coos County ARES/RACES August 2010 Monthly Report
Training was held at the New Coos Bay Fire Station for a tour of new city EOC and familiarization with the ARES/RACES equipment. Training on message handling was giving at our training meeting and during the on-the-air nets. Training on batteries was given at our training meeting.
13 members of Coos County ARES/RACES and 2 members of Douglas County ARES/RACES provided communications for the 30 K “Circle the Bay” foot race. This provided experience in use of tactical calls and participation in a directed net.
We have removed four people from our roster. They cannot continue to participate for personal reasons. We particularly wish to recognize Glynn McCready, W7WAT, perhaps the longest serving ARES member in the Section. I don’t know when he first joined, but he was SEC in 1954. He has been active in the NTS for a similar period of time.
Dan Bissell, EC, W7WVF
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Wednesday 01 September 2010 - 12:16:22
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Sunday 01 August 2010
SW Oregon Report
Now that the weather makes driving safer, I'm trying to get out to see what is going on.
I have pretty well covered the coast and will start working on the more inland areas. I did work with both the Southern Oregon ARC and Rogue Valley ARC to get their paper work in for affiliation, and it appears to have worked.
Florence. Central Oregon Coast ARC. Corporate name: Oregon Coast Emergency Repeater, Inc http://www.w7flo.com/ club call sign W7FLO The club has made a lot of progress since my last visit. They now have 70 members. There is increased emphasis on community service and recruiting young hams (which they consider 15 years old or younger). These two goals have worked together, as they have found community service the thing that has kept the interest of the young Hams. They currently have 5 active young hams. One has his general license who worked HF at Field Day. This has motivated the others to work on their general licenses as well. They have made major upgrades to their voice and digital repeaters, extending both their range and reliability. (I can now check into their net from my home south of Bandon.)
Coos County. Coos County Radio Club http://www.coosradioclub.net/ Club call sign K7CCH The club is affiliated and is a Special Service Club. It meets monthly, has a weekly net, supports a number of community bike rides and foot races, maintains a repeater, has active Field Days, holds an annual Hamfest, and teaches licensing classes. (VE testing is done by the local repeater association.) It has a close working relationship with Coos County ARES/RACES and the repeater association.
Port Orford. A new club has formed in Port Orford. Port Orford ARC qsl.net/k7poh Club call sign K7POH I have contacted them at least three times with offers to help. They have formed a W5IY VE team and have strong feelings about providing emergency communications to their community. They are making progress on putting up a repeater on a city site, with the support of the City Manager, who is an Amateur Radio Operator. There are a number of new technicians in the group, and there is intensive training to get them upgraded.
Gold Beach. Web page is currently down due to server problems. The Gold Beach "Hamsters" meet regularly, support an excellent local repeater, hold a weekly net, are always glad to see me and do NOT want to be organized into a club. The county has just hired a new Emergency Manager. He owns and operates the restaurant where the "Hamsters" meet, and they all like him.
Brookings. Pelican Bay ARC The club maintains a repeater, has a weekly net and monthly meetings. It has an excellent monthly newsletter. The club supports community activities, such as the Azalea Festival Parade. The club has a close working relationship with Curry County ARES.
Western Country Cousins. This is a Nation Amateur Radio group, with geographical regions, aimed largely at RVers. The Western Cousins have membership in California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. In addition to their daily net at 9:00 PM on 3970, they have an annual picnic, which serves as the official annual meeting with change of officers. This year, the picnic was in Harris Park in Brookings on Saturday, July 31st. I attended representing the Section. They seemed very pleased to have someone from ARRL. I alerted Pelican Bay ARC and several members also came out to welcome the Cousins. The welcome seemed appreciated and they said they will plan to have their picnic in Oregon again next year.
Dan, W7WVF ASM Southwestern Oregon
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Sunday 01 August 2010 - 17:00:22
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Sunday 09 May 2010
Oregon Section Club News May 2010
The Western Oregon Radio Club has completed installation of a complete Icom D-Star repeater system recently. All three digital voice repeaters are in operation as well as a 23cm D-Star digipeater. The voice repeaters are able to communicate through the US national trust server and connect throughout much of the world using callsign linking or repeater linking. The repeaters provide useful coverage in much of the Portland-Vancouver area and allow digital cross band communications between D-Star users locally. These repeaters are open for any amateur to use and may be accessed by visiting D-Star users who have registered with a D-Star system anywhere in the US. The WORC continues to operate a large linkable system of FM repeaters on 10m through 23cm Bands in the Northwest corner of Oregon, providing coverage from Astoria to the Cascades, From Longview WA to south of Corvallis. For information about the Western Oregon Radio Club systems, see www.worc.info on the internet. The Radio Amateurs of the Gorge new club website at W7RAG.com is now up and running. Before we had a website, hardly anyone besides members of the club knew we existed. Now, information about the club will be searchable and readily available to the public. The website will be a repository of newsletter articles, how-to’s, and features about events club members are involved in. Informative things like frequency charts, net schedules, and lists of upcoming events can now reside on the website, making them available from any computer. No longer will you have to be at your own desk or computer to look at a newsletter; you can now see it even if you are at a library or internet cafe.
The hams in Lincoln County report that REACH THE BEACH will be using the Mt Hebo 147.220 repeater all day on May 15. Approximately 3000 bicycles are heading for Pacific City from the Willamette Valley on that day. The safety, health, and welfare of all the cyclists is managed by a network of ham radio portable, fixed, and mobile units. Feel free to listen and monitor the activity on 147.220. The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club (MARC) is honoring Betty Anderson, N7DRP who is turning 90 this month, who is one of MARC charter members. Congratulations Betty! The Radio Operators Association of Dallas (ROADS) May meeting will be a dinner with limited “meeting”. It will be held on May 20th at 6 PM at Farroll’s Restaurant, located on Hwy 99 adjacent to the Polk County Fairgrounds. This event will be held in the banquet room and will NOT include the usual business meeting. Guests are welcome.
If your club has any news you would like to share with the rest of the Oregon Section, then please forward it to me. n7pat@arrl.net
73, Pat Roberson, N7PAT Assistant Oregon Section Manager, Administrative
Posted by Pat Roberson on Sunday 09 May 2010 - 17:00:00
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Monday 12 April 2010
Coos County ARES/RACES Honored by Public Health
Coos County ARES/RACES was honored last Thursday at a Public Health Recognition Luncheon for obtaining funding for, and installing Amateur Radio Stations in the county’s three hospitals, the County Public Health Department and the Coquille Indian Tribe’s Health Clinic. The event was covered in the Coos Bay paper.
Dan Bissell, W7WVF EC Coos County ARES
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Monday 12 April 2010 - 17:00:22
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Saturday 10 April 2010
Klamath County ARES Report
Today April 7 the Klamath County ARES/RACES group received an Award of Commendation for our help in the Klamath County H1N1 Incident Management Team.
The ARES/RACES group provided at least 1 ARES members to one to three "PODs", (Point Of Distribution) a day, three days a week during October, November, December and January, Three weeks a Month. These PODs were at almost all of the schools in Klamath County. The ARES members were at each POD as back up communications, but they also worked with the PODs to help with registering the students, and generally assisting the Nurses and Klamath County Health Department employees who were giving the shots.
The ARES members also helped with a free distribution day where the Klamath County Health Department and the Klamath County Incident Management Team provided over 600 inoculations for the H1N1 virus in about 6 hours.
Dennie Dunkeson WA7YPR EC Klamath County ARES
Posted by Bonnie Altus on Saturday 10 April 2010 - 17:00:22
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Sunday 04 April 2010
Oregon Section Club News April 2010
Oregon ARRL Section Club Newsletter April 2010
The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club presentation for the April 2010 meeting will have a discussion on the International Reply Coupon. This will include a brief history of the coupon, how to obtain the IRC and how to send and redeem them. Did you know that they are also collectable? So plan to sit back for a few minutes and learn all about the IRC and how to apply their use in amateur radio. Bring along your questions and plan to be entertained. The meeting is at 7 PM on the second Thursday each month at the McMinnville Manor Recreation Hall on Riverside Drive in McMinnville. Check their web site www.marcwireless.org if you need directions.
The Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Club (OTVARC) will be featuring Craig Adams, former KKSN-FM radio “DJ”, with a program on “Early Oregon Radio History” at their club meeting on Wednesday April 14, at The Peppermill Restaurant, 17455 SW Farmington Road in Aloha, OR. Dinner is at 6 and the meeting starts at 7 PM.
The Tillamook Radio Club (TEARS) guest speaker on April 8 will be Dan Smith, KK7DS. Dan will be speaking on new technology D-Star digital repeaters, equipment required, and the software that runs the systems. There is an operational D-Star repeater on Mt Hebo provided by the Oregon Coast Repeater Group, W7GC. Meeting Location is 2311 3rd Street (911 Center) in Tillamook. Time is 7 p.m.
Special Amateur Radio Technician License Class and VE Examination Lincoln City - April 16 and 17. Instruction provided by Oregon ACES. Seating limited to 30 persons. Reservations required. Technician license examinations provided by the Lincoln City VE crew on April 17 at 5 p.m. Location - North Lincoln 1400 Fire Station - Lincoln City Contact Daron Wilson, N7HQR, for reservations or information. daron@wilson.org
Quarter Century Wireless Association - Oregon Coast Chapter 175 Bi-Monthly Luncheon Meeting - Saturday, April 24 at 1 p.m. Wildflower Grill in Lincoln City Contact Roger Lincoln, W7HH, roglinx@inbox.com for information or reservations. You are eligible for QCWA if you were licensed in 1985 or earlier. www.qcwa.org
I received this message and thought I would pass it on for any individual or club that would like to help out in this event:
My name is Brien Morris and my call is K7KSN. I am the Chief of Communications for an event called The Oregon Trail Rally. The Oregon Trail Rally is an annual three day event, kicked off at Portland International Raceway on Friday afternoon May 14, 2010 and then travels up the beautiful Columbia River Gorge using the rural roads of Hood River and Wasco Counties, Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16, 2010. The Oregon Trail Rally is a “Stage Rally Race.” What is Stage Rally? Quite simply, it is a flat-out race over closed sections of rural roads by modified production automobiles. It is different than most car races in that: 1. Competitors race one car at a time against the clock, usually at one-minute intervals. 2. Flat-out racing is done on limited access roads, blocked off from "civilian" traffic, rather than on prepared tracks. 3. Events are usually several hundred miles long, often lasting for several days. Each car has a driver and a co-driver. 4. In-between the racing stages, the cars travel over public roads (transit) and are required to obey all traffic laws. Expected entrants include defending three-time Rally America champion, MTV Nitro Circus star, and extreme sport icon Travis Pastrana, DC shoes founder Ken Block, BMX legend Dave Mirra, Formula D champion Tanner Foust, multi-talented drivers Andrew "ACP" Comrie-Picard and Matthew Johnson, plus most of the fastest rally drivers and co-drivers in North America. I am contacting you today because you have been identified as the contact person for your club. An event of this size requires many amateur radio volunteers to provide communications support. I would like to extend my personal invitation to any interested member of you club to come out and enjoy a great event. Participation for all three days is not required. Training will be provided at a required new volunteer orientation. Volunteers usually receive a commemorative event t-shirt and invitation to the event rewards ceremony and dinner on Sunday night. If you wouldn’t mind passing along this information to your membership and have any interested person’s contact me as soon as possible. If you require any additional information or if you would like me to attend one of your monthly meetings, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Brien F. Morris – K7KSN Chief of Communications The 2010 Oregon Trail Rally brienmorris@yahoo.com
73 for this month,
Pat Roberson, N7PAT Assistant Oregon ARRL Section Manager / Administrative
Posted by Pat Roberson on Sunday 04 April 2010 - 17:00:00
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Sunday 21 February 2010
Oregon Section Club News February 2010
Oregon ARRL Section Club Newsletter February 2010
It was nice to see lots of you at the Salem Hamfair in Rickreall on Saturday. A great turn out and I hope you sold or found what you needed. I’m still looking for that elusive Uniden BC-780 XLT scanner I have been searching for.
Congratulations to the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) Amateur Radio Club. The ARRL Executive Committee has approved OIT’s club affiliation with the ARRL and has an affiliation date of February 1, 2010. I need to make a correction on last month’s report. I gave the wrong call to Bill Herbner, who is the Vice-President of the Central Oregon Coast Amateur Radio Club (COCARC). Bill’s call is KE7SJI. Sorry Bill.
While not club news, the City of Salem has announced Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) classes. If you live in Salem and are interested, go to this url: www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100219/NEWS/2190356/1001 for more information.
The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club (MARC) wireless reports that Dale Hunt, WB6BYU hosts a fox hunt for those wishing to improve their skills or just learn the fun aspects of DF hunting. You don’t have to be a club member or ARES member to join in. Sounds like fun Dale! Also from the MARC Wireless, club members Armand, W7IG and Millie, W7MIP Pilotte were recognized by the Yamhill County ARES (YCARES) group for over 30 years of service to ARES in both Yamhill and Clackamas Counties. Before moving to Sheridan, The Pilotte’s were both active in the Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC) in Gresham, when Armand was working for Northwest Natural Gas in Portland and Salem. Congratulations to you both.
The Quarter Century Wireless Association – Oregon Coast Chapter 175 will be holding a luncheon on Saturday, February 27, in Lincoln City. For more information, contact Roger Lincoln, W7HH at roglinx@inbox.com . Anyone licensed 1985 or earlier is eligible for QCWA.
The Southern Oregon Amateur Radio Club (SOARC) reports that is offering ARRL VEC exams four time in 2010. The test dates are: Feb 26, May 21, Aug 27, and Nov 19. The exams start at 6:30 PM and are held at the Fruitdale Grange on Rogue River Highway. Exam fees for 2010 are $15.
73, for now Pat Roberson, N7PAT Assistant ARRL Oregon Section Manager / Administrative
Posted by Pat Roberson on Sunday 21 February 2010 - 17:00:00
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