ARRL Oregon Section CLUBS meeting Wednesday, Sept. 10 @ 6 p.m. PDT Are you an officer in your radio club? Are you trying to build membership? Are you trying to engage your members? Clubs are the backbone of ham radio. We meet quarterly to discuss our clubs, things we can do better, things we know work, things we should never…
We commemorated the 2025 Oregon State Fair by operating as w7o. Requested by Mike, WA7SKG, we had the callsign w7o for the duration of the State Fair (August 22 – September 1). Oregon’s amateur radio operators used the w7o callsign and handed out over 1800 commemorative QSOs during the period of August 22 – September…
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,…
The Oregon section (and N7DUX University of Oregon Radio Club) are the home of TWO students who received scholarships from the ARRL Foundation for the 2025-2026 school year! Ellie is a University of Oregon student and president of the N7DUX club, and received a $3,000 scholarship from QCWA. Fedor is also a student at UO…
Nearly 70 hams did some serious hiking as part of this summer’s W7O SOTA Campout at Crater Lake. Click the link to watch WA7JNJ’s video.
The Annual Pacific Northwest DX Convention takes place in East Portand – Clackamas from August 15-17, 2025. This is an official ARRL convention, and this year, it’s hosted by Willamette Valley DX Club. (www.wvdxc.org) Learn about DXing. Learn about contesting. Make friends and make contacts! Convention prices (not including lodging) Adult – $150 Youth –…
Oregon has THREE new ARRL-affiliated clubs! Oregon Youth ARC, K7OYA. Visit https://k7oya.radio/ Salem Amateur Repeater Group, K7ATV. https://www.wa7abu.com/ Central Oregon Coast ARC, W7FLO. https://www.w7flo.com/ Congratulations to our new ARRL-affiliated clubs!
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…
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.
By Gubernatorial proclamation… June is Amateur Radio MONTH in Oregon! Feel free to download the proclamation, print it, repost it, get visibility for Amateur Radio. This month belongs to ALL of us! If you’d like a copy, you can right click and download it, or email me at ars.n7ji@gmail.com. Scott N7JI ARRL Oregon Section Manager…
