Hi Malcolm, Replying to the group as well in case other VE's are reading the mail... The PARC VE Team has pretty much been in hiatus since the virus issues, and to a great extent due to not yet having

Hi all, Quite a while back (months and months) on a PARC meeting zoom, I think someone mentioned a need for more VEs to help administer exams. Well, I wasn't sure if I could, despite being a VE, espec

Hi all, I'm finally getting around to mounting a decent VHF antenna on my roofline and have a mount; I am just wondering what you all would use as a light mast pole, with no greater than 1.5" OD. Noth

Greetings, I am new to amateur radio and am just getting into HF. I was loaned a transceiver and antenna to check out and I'd like to get into CW. I've been using a phone app to learn the characters b

Hey radio folks. This summer is my first summer as a licensed ham. I took my HT backpacking, wandering, and rockhounding with me this summer in the backcountry of Mt Hood, Mt Ranier, and the Tillamook

Greetings, I am looking to put up a dual band antenna on the eve of my house. It is a 2 story house. I am looking for some help with getting it installed. It is too high for me to do myself. I am look

This is the second one, so the Pacific Northwest Not-Quite-Fourteener is now clearly a tradition. :) This year’s event is scheduled for August 6th and 7th and runs at the same time as the Socal SOTAFe

PARC members, this survey is important. As stated in the enclosed email "ARDC administers an IPv4 address block of 12 million addresses for the benefit of Amateur Radio (sometimes known as AMPRnet or

August 6-7, 2022 the second annual Pacific Northwest Not-Quite-Fourteener Join us, along with SOTA ops from the SOCAL SOTAFest and the Colorado Ham 14er for a first-rate, low-key, modestly organized S

I'm in the process of getting my QTH ground system set up and I'm wondering if there's anywhere I can rent a megger/ohm clamp meter for measuring resistance on ground rods. I haven't been able to find

My dipole came the rest of the way down this weekend, so I am hunting for an arborist willing to climb a couple of trees and help me get a new wire in the air. I live in SE Portland. If you have any s

Hello everyone. I am a new ham (Feb this year) and new to PARC. After exploring YSF with my Yaesu HT and a pi-star I decided to set up a YSF reflector out of curiosity. It’s up and running. I had a ch

We are holding another slightly-organized S2S event on March 19th. So far we have about a dozen ops going out. The party will start at 1100AM PST (1900Z) and go until we run out of steam. The primary

I will be teaching an Amateur Radio General License Class via Zoom on Friday, March 4, from 4 - 7 PM Pacific Time, continuing on Saturday, March 5, from 8 AM - 2 PM. The class is free and open to the

After beating my head against the chirp wall, I need to get a copy of the RT System programming software for my FT60R. So... option one, does anyone have a copy of the software and cable to lend me fo

I’m wondering if some brave sole has tried Node-Red yet? Check QST, September 2021, about graphical programming environment for RPi, Windows, Linux or Android. I loaded it on my Win-10 PC this evening

Tomorrow (Saturday) I am going to head back to the cluster of mountains west of Stabler Washington and try to activate two summits, officially 4220 and 4340, SOTA names continuity and d layer (no idea

I've heard back from most of the SOTA ops who were out for the Pacific Northwest Not-Quite-Fourteener event on August 7th and 8th. Almost everyone went out on the first day of the event. Here's some o

There are going to be a number of local SOTA activators out on Saturday morning, including two groups on Mt. Adams, three or four visiting summits in the area west of Stabler, Washington, and a couple

A local S2S party with the potential for a couple of hundred chaser points from Mt. Sylvania or Rock Candy Mountain? What could be better? The SOTA communities in SoCal and Colorado have big, organize