Add Your Club’s Field Day Event to the ARRL Locator
Make sure you post your club’s Field Day event on the ARRL’s Field Day Locator site. Many use it when traveling during Field Day weekend and media outlets can use it as well.
Make sure you post your club’s Field Day event on the ARRL’s Field Day Locator site. Many use it when traveling during Field Day weekend and media outlets can use it as well.
We had multiple clubs whose media outreach led to great promotion of Field Day 2025. One was The Forest Grove News Times that shared what the Portland Amateur Radio Club is doing, and another was the Central Oregon Coast ARC (COCARC) in Florence, which obtained proclamations from Dunes City and Florence as this week being…
Winter Field Day can be a great way to get hams involved and on the air. It takes place on the last weekend of January. Clubs can use it to help participants improve their preparedness for disasters and enhance their operational abilities in adverse conditions—or to just get on the air at a club or…
Members of the Willamette Valley DX Club (Oregon and SW Washington) are using the W7AC and W7RM callsigns to celebrate WVDXC’s 70th anniversary. This will carry on for the entirety of the 2025 calendar year. The club will be making electronic certificates available for stations that contact the club over the air. WVDXC was founded in…
Saturday, Feb. 15, is the Salem Hamfair. Doors open at 9 a.m. Flea market, ham exams, and much, much more. http://www.w7sra.com/flyer2025.pdf Drop by the ARRL booth and say hi!
The Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act is working its way through congress and needs your help. Clubs and individuals can help in this effort. The process for individuals is very, very easy. https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/ The process for clubs is slightly more involved. https://send-a-letter.org/club/ There is a video that has been produced by the ARRL as well….
Are you passionate about and love talking about ham radio? Are you OK with crowds? We (a collective of passionate hams) are doing a ham radio booth at the Oregon State Fair in Salem. You can be a part of it. We will be active from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, 8/22, Monday, 8/25,…