There will not be a general membership meeting this month, due to the holidays. Instead, the Leadership team will be meeting for a day-long planning session to work out our training and event schedule, and other business, for 2018. Have a great holiday month, and we’ll see you in January!
Category: Meetings
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November General Membership Meeting
This month’s meeting will be one week early due to the Thanksgiving holiday. We will have a demonstration of making a copper j-pole antenna. This will be followed up in January with a Saturday workshop, where participants will be charged a small fee for parts and will go home with an antenna.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, November 16 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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October General Membership Meeting Recap
We had a great meeting tonight! There were 52 attendees, including representation from the Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management (MCEM) and the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM). We had five new people with us this evening.
The meeting was started off by our EC, Nathan N9VCU, who covered general business and announcements, and then presented certificates to two members who recently completed their ARRO certification. Michael AE7XP made an announcement about the NET Net, which is held at 20:10 every Sunday night on the ARRG 147.040 MHz (100.0 Hz tone) repeater – this is MC6 in the regional frequency template.
Chris Voss and Alice Busch from MCEM addressed the membership, thanking us for our service, and presented certificates of appreciation to the volunteers who helped with the Eagle Creek fire response. Mark McKay, also from MCEM, presented certificates of appreciation to those who helped with communications in Grant County during the solar eclipse in August.
A panel of six folks – three ARES volunteers, two Multnomah County employees, and one City of Portland employee – talked about their experience in Grant County during the eclipse. They had some very interesting stories about the technical and logistical challenges they encountered, and lessons learned.
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October General Membership Meeting
This month’s meeting will feature a panel of folks who went to Grant County to provide communications support during the solar eclipse.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, October 23 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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September General Membership Meeting
During our amateur radio activities, we may expose ourselves to certain dangers which can be avoided by following sound safety practices. At this month’s meeting our Emergency Coordinator, Nathan Hersey (N9VCU), will talk about hazards, safety, and situational awareness.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, September 28 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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August General Membership Meeting
This month’s training will focus on SSTV, a mode we may use after a disaster to send damage reports to the County. Matthew AF7PV will give a demonstration on sending and receiving images using the MMSSTV application, and Robert WX5TEX will discuss photography concepts and techniques for taking quality photos for use with SSTV.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, August 24 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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July General Membership Meeting
Field Day wasn’t enough; it’s time to get outside again! For this month’s meeting we’ll be setting up and showing off our go-kits, and having a pot-luck BBQ in the PF&R Training Center parking lot.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, July 27 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. The meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00 and everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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June General Membership Meeting
Participating in and running a directed net are important skills we employ in every exercise and public service event, so at this month’s meeting we’ll have our annual refresher on net protocol.
Please join us for our general membership meeting on Thursday, June 28 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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May General Membership Meeting
Winlink is quickly becoming our most used mode for passing formal traffic for our served agencies, and it is crucial that all members are comfortable and proficient with this mode. This month’s training will include a review of the Winlink system and some hands-on practice in small groups. We will have several Winlink stations set up in the meeting room, so everyone will have a chance to send and receive a few messages.
Please join us for our May general membership meeting on Thursday, May 25 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
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April General Membership Meeting
Good traffic handling skills are key to our role as emergency communicators. For this month’s training we will have a brief review of traffic handling techniques, and then we’ll break into small groups to practice sending, copying, and logging ICS 213 and NTS Radiogram messages. Multnomah County ARES members and Portland NET radio operators are highly encouraged to attend this training.
Please join us for our May general membership meeting on Thursday, May 25 at the Portland Fire and Rescue training center at 4800 NE 122nd Ave in Portland. There will be a Q&A session and informal gathering for new members from 18:15 to 19:00. The main meeting will run from 19:00 to 21:00. Everyone is welcome!
Additional information about our monthly meetings can be found on the meeting page.
