Information

Keep up to date with our club's news and events.

Recent and upcoming events

2024 Field Day/Summer Picnic Information

Field day for 2024 will be June 21-23 at Beulah City park in Yamhill, Oregon. Details yet to be determined. Plans include setting up several radios. Antennas will be run through the trees on Friday, contacts will be made Saturday noon through Sunday noon. Take down Sunday afternoon. Will also have the club summer picnic at the same time and the same place.

2023 Christmas Party information

The Christmas luncheon was held on Sunday December 10th at La Sierra in Dundee. We had a great turnout. We enjoyed lots of good food and conversation along with a white elephant gift exchange.

2023 Field Day Information

Field day for 2023 was held June 23-25 at Beulah City park in Yamhill, Oregon. We had several club members attend both days. Lots of contacts were made all over the U.S.

2022 Christmas Party information

The Christmas luncheon was held on Saturday December 10th at the Black Bear Diner in Newberg. We had a good turnout. There was lots of good food and conversation along with a gift exchange. We thank Millie, W7MIP, for providing place setting treat bags.

2022 Spruce Goose 75th Anniversary Special Event Station

The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club, in conjunction with the Hughes Amateur Radio Club, held Special Event Stations to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the the first flight of the Hughes Aircraft Company's prototype Hercules H-4 Flying Boat, commonly known as the Spruce Goose.

The Amateur Radio Clubs from both locations operated special event stations Oct 29th through Nov 5th. The McMinnville Amateur Radio Clubs call sign was W7RXJ and the Hughes Amateur Radio Clubs call sign was W6HA.

More Detailed Information

2020 and 2021

Events were limited due to COVID

2019 Field Day

What an amazing day at Field Day. We had around 50+ people at our location which was Camp Smith. Visit them on Facebook.

2019 End of Summer Picnic

Our end of summer picnic this year had a great turn out with 40+ members joining us. We had burgers, hot dogs with everyone bringing various side dishes of their own for the potluck portion.

Newsletters

Public Newsletters are limited

^*Newsletters are sent to members via e-mail

Donations

The new C4FM Repeater has been received. We're hoping to get it installed soon.

If you currently use the MARC repeater but are not a member we encourage you to be a part of the club. We would also appreciate donations to help with maintenance and equipment upgrades.

Monthly Board Meetings

The board meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm. Meetings are held via internet video link. If members wish to attend, please contact a board member for the internet video link information.

Monthly General Meetings

We now hold hybrid (in person and via internet video) club meetings on the FIRST Thursday of each month at 7 pm at the Yamhill County Auditorium, 2050 NE Lafayette Ave., McMinnville, Oregon.

Internet video links are sent via email to members a few days prior to the meetings. Those links are generally also shown in the monthly newsletter.

Nets

Our repeater is on 146.640 - 100 hz pl tone

Monday Check-in Net

This weekly checkin/information net is each Monday at 7:00 pm and everyone is welcome to check in.

Topics may Include, but are not limited to:

Club announcements
Q and A
Items of Interest
Trivia, Ham radio or otherwise

Net control schedule for Monday nets.

April 1 - Jayne Wolf
April 8, 15, 22, 29 - Mark Menne
May 6 - Jayne Wolf
May 13 - Bill Daley
May 20, 27 - Mike McInnis
June 3 - Jayne Wolf
June 10 - Hank Creamer
June 17, 24 - Volunteers needed
July - Volunteers needed

Net control Preamble

You can volunteer for one week, several weeks or an entire month to be the Monday evening net control.

The club greatly appreciates your service to our organization.

Ham Radio Topics Net

This weekly net is each Wednesday at 7:00 pm and everyone is welcome to check in.

Topics for this net are anything Ham Radio related such as:

General Q&A
Technical questions
Sharing a recent contact
Asking questions about equipment you have
Inform net participants of equipment you want to buy, sell or trade
Inform us of upcoming events or items of interest