Category: Meetings

  • News from Around the County

    Our June monthly meeting will be in person and on Zoom. Our location is Warner Pacific University (SE 68th Ave and SE Division St in Portland). This month our speaker, Jeff KI7TVE, will be reviewing the Incident Command System (ICS). We will continue handing out our latest grant items – warm winter beanies – to all members.

    The GPS Food drive has moved to Saturday, August 22. Please save the date! This event is really fun and we are hoping that the change to summer will bring much more participation. Mobile operations are a big part of emergency communications.

    We are still looking for volunteers for the summer Ultra Marathons. You can sign up here.

    Field Day is coming on June 27 and 28. Some of us will be up on Mt. Hood for the WY’East Ultra marathon. Those who are not can join with Portland Amateur Radio Club (PARC) or Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC). PARC will be out in Hillsboro and HARC will be up at Larch Mountain. Check their websites for more details: W7LT.org and WB7QIW.org.

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    Thank you to all who helped with this year’s Walk MS event! Communications were very successful and despite a few rain showers everyone seemed to enjoy the event. We did have a few new members helping out which is great practice. This was our 13th year supporting the Walk MS folks.

    Our May and June monthly meetings will be in person and on Zoom and we will switch our location to Warner Pacific University (SE 68th and SE Division St). This month our guest speaker, Etienne K7ETN, will be talking about Summits on the Air (SOTA) for emergency communications.

    We will be handing out our latest grant items, warm winter beanies, to all members. We were hoping these would arrive last fall however there has been much delay with funding issues. Better late than never as they will be useful this coming winter.

    We were also able to purchase new Windows11 laptops for our go-kits. We are excited to add bigger screen size (14 inches) and faster operating systems as an upgrade from the old ones in the kits.

    We are still looking for volunteers for the summer Ultra Marathons You can sign up here.

    Please look at our upcoming events as we have scheduled several new dates and activities!

  • News from Around the County

    This month’s monthly meeting will be one week early, on Thursday, November 20 at 7:00 PM because of the Thanksgiving holiday. This month’s meeting will be a Winlink review with Dylan, N4LYD. We are transitioning to online Zoom meetings for the next several months. We will not have a December meeting.

    The Leadership Team meets for a planning session for 2026 and review of 2025. We would welcome your comments and suggestions for possible training topics! You can email leadership [at] multnomahares [dot] org.

    I hope you have a great Thanksgiving with friends and family!

  • News from Around the County

    Well, it seems official that we have fallen into Fall. Brrr! There are some pretty chilly mornings of late.

    Thanks to all who participated in the Great Shakeout Winlink exercise on October 16!

    We are looking forward to meeting in person at Portland Community College Southeast Campus Community Hall this Thursday, October 23, at 7:00 PM. This meeting will be a hybrid with Zoom available to those who are unable to attend in person. This will be the last in person meeting until Spring. This month’s meeting will be our annual message handling and forms refresher course with Eli W7ELI.

  • News from Around the County

    Thanks to all who participated in the annual Team Field exercise on September 6! It is important that we test the go kits and train on how to use them on a regular basis. For the most part this exercise went well and we will flush out a few issues that we found with the Bravo team kit. It was also great that the Alpha team operated from the county EOC to introduce a few new members of the operations there.

    The new 2025 Oregon Regional VHF/UHF template is now published on our website. You can access it here. There are no changes to the Multnomah County frequencies however there are changes for our neighbor counties. Please program your radios to match the new 2025 template.

    We are looking forward to meeting in person at Portland Community College southeast Campus/Community Hall on September 25 at 7:00 PM. This meeting will be a hybrid with Zoom available to those who are unable to attend in person. The Ultra Marathon planning team will be giving an overview of this season’s events. Joe, WA7FWC, will be on site to program go kit radios. Bring your radio or handheld and programming cable!

  • News from Around the County

    This Saturday is our annual Member Appreciation Picnic! We hope you will join us at Wilshire Park, NE 33rd Avenue and NE Skidmore Street in Portland, at Picnic Area A, from 11:30 AM until 3:00 PM. We will be cooking up burgers and hot dogs, and will have plenty of cold drinks. Bring the family and a side dish or dessert to share if you would like. The weather is looking good for a mid-day gathering!

    Thanks to all who helped out at the Mt. Hood Ultra-marathon this past weekend!

    We will not be holding a General Meeting in July.

  • News from Around the County

    Happy summer (almost)!

    Thanks to everyone who signed up to help out at the summer Ultra Marathons. The first event is this month at Mt. Hood near Parkdale. The WY’ East Wonder happens to fall on Field Day weekend.

    If you are not joining us at Mt. Hood, we hope you all have a chance to join either Portland Amateur Radio Club (PARC) or Hoodview Amateur Radio Club (HARC) at their weekend events.

    PARC will be at 32355 NW Beach Rd. in Hillsboro and HARC will be at Larch Mountain, east of Corbett.

    Our monthly meeting will feature Bob W7JNM giving a presentation about SSTV. This is a hybrid meeting and we hope you can join us at Portland Community College SE campus, Community Hall or online with Zoom.

  • News from Around the County

    This month’s meeting will be online via Zoom and is one week early, on Thursday, November 16. We do not have a December membership meeting, however the Leadership team will meet to plan for next year. If you have suggestions for trainings for 2024, please email leadership [at] multnomahares [dot] org. We value your input!

    We hope you will join us for the SKYWARN Recognition Day on December 2 at the Portland National Weather Service office.

  • News from Around the County

    This month’s meeting will be in person at Portland Community College, SE 82nd Ave and SE Division St, in the Community Hall meeting room. This will be the last in person meeting for the year.

    We will switch to Zoom for the November 16 (one week early), January, and February meetings. We do not have a December membership meeting, however the Leadership team meets for planning for next year. The holidays are a busy time for us all. Eli and Dylan will be teaming up to give us a refresher traffic handling and forms course for the October meeting.

    We hope you will join us for the Shakeout exercise on October 19 and the AREDN/mesh demo on the 21st. See your email for details on both of these events. We have been contacted by the Portland office of the National Weather Service (NWS) to help again this year with their SkyWarn 2023 event. We are working on details and it looks like this will be December 2 unless there is a government shutdown happening at that time. Please save the date as this was really fun last year and very much appreciated by our local NWS folks.

    Fall has definitely arrived! It is a good time to check your go kit and include colder weather gear and rain protection. Check your batteries to make sure they are fully charged or perhaps needing replacement.

  • News from Around the County

    Winter Field Day was at Scouters Mountain on January 28 and it was great fun. We braved the chilly weather and set up two stations. Joe had his awesome Yaesu FT DX 10 for voice, and Bob and Ken brought their Elecraft stations for CW. Propagation was very good and we were able to make contacts as far away as Nova Scotia and southern Florida, and many places in between. We appreciate all who visited and helped out. A special thanks to Joe for submitting our logs to the WFD organization. The chili dogs were consumed at a very high rate!

    We are super excited to have a new meeting location at Portland Community College’s Southeast campus (SE Division and 82nd Ave). Our March 23 meeting will be there as will all other in-person meetings. We will send building details and parking instructions prior to the March meeting.

    We are planning a Winlink exercise from home for Sunday, February 26 at 10:00am. Please save the date. The drill guide will be sent via email soon. Time to dust off the equipment and practice, practice, and practice!

    The early planning has begun for the three Ultra Marathons this summer. Take a look at the dates and try to save a few to your calendar.

    • June 24: Wy’East Wander Mt. Hood near Parkdale
    • July 15-16: Mt. Hood Trail Run
    • Aug 5-6: Volcanic near Mt St. Helens

    We will need your help to staff the various needed positions.