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Effective today I resign the post of Quartermaster. I am also withdrawing my participation in the club. Recent events have brought to my attention that there are some probably unfixable social situations with which I am not comfortable. "The board" has had some recent difficulties. Perhaps that may resolve, perhaps not. Troubles extend beyond that. The underlying difficulty seems to be with several individuals practicing "covert hostility". Within the last few weeks I have been the recipient of what I would describe as "shadow shunning" by 3 different individuals. This is consistent with "covert hostility" as such tend to gossip or backchannel. I prefer to not play anymore. 73, John Kimball KF7AZP

Classes and Testing Sessions Coming Up May 30 - June 14 Tech Class June 13 - June 29 General Class June 14 Technician Test June 29 General Class https://w7aw.org/education/fcc-amateur-radio-classes/ Dave AA7XX and Alan WX7L We're preparing for licensing classes. Visit the website for more information. Following the classes we'll be running tests which are open to anyone, including those that do not take the class. Providence Mount St. Vincent is very interested in sending some of their staff to take our classes and help out with the club! Great contact Cindi KD7KSH. Park Operations for April Club Meeting 10a April 19 at Lincoln Park Shelter #4 Bring a radio and let's operate from the park! Nick KK7LZM will bring his shack-in-a-box and set it up for HF operations. We hope you'll bring your go kit or QRP radio. Hopefully we'll also have some foxhunting gear to do play a radio direction finding game. We'll also be hosting a young person and their mother who want to learn more about amateur radio. I hope everyone can make it and give them a warm welcome. This won't technically be a POTA activation which only includes state and national parks. But that won't stop us from making some park contacts! We'll have coffee and some light refreshments. Feel free to bring some of your own food to share. WSARC Entry in the West Seattle Grand Parade? Melinda KK7YVK, Mei KI7TZA and others are trying to organize a club entry in the West Seattle Grand Parade. We'll be discussing options after the club meeting April 19. New Club Logo at Seattle ACS Over the weekend Ron N4RDZ presented on behalf of the club at the Seattle ACS meeting. He showed off the newly approved club logo. We got a lot of positive comments from club members and outsiders alike. Great job everyone that worked on it and gave input. It was a long road with a lot of iterations and a real team effort. Thanks especially to Mac KK7UMB our artist in the middle of exams! Good luck! AREDN Exercise in the next few weeks As part of the prep for our still in-progress ARDC grant proposal, we're going to have an exercise deploying and using some AREDN and LoRa mesh equipment in the next few weeks. If you're interested in participating in this exercise or the project as a whole visit nwmesh.groups.io and post your information. Seattle Field Day Keep the weekend of June 28 open! The club, along with several other groups in the area will be putting on a big show at South Seattle College. Keep your eyes peeled for information and calls for speakers and volunteers. I suspect information will appear at the Seattle Radio Field Day website soon. 10m Gathering Every Monday night 8pm 28.420MHz As usually we'll have a social chit chat later in the night after the Monday Night Net. It's a pretty low key way to do some HF work.

Dave and Mei and the Washington State Science Fair Dave AA7XX is an organizer of the WS Science Fair. Mei KI7TZA is a judge this year. Dave says Mei did a fabulous job and was great engaging with the kids. There were a number of amateur radio operators at ths fair this year, as always. In fact, that's how Dave got into amateur radio many years ago. Thanks Dave and Mei for your service! Mei suggested the club run a table at the event next year. If you're interested in leading such an effort, I'm sure plenty of folks will support you! Upcoming Licensing Classes Dave AA7XX is thinking about running licensing classes at the end of May or beginning of June. He needs to find a place to run the exams. More information to follow. Seattle Radio Field Day Brian KG7WRK told us that he and others kicked off planning for this year's Field Day. They will need volunteers and speakers. So keep an eye out for more information. This is a fantastic event to learn more about radio by helping to build and run some fo the equipment. ARDC Grant Proposal Submitted https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UwiUQfk0x8mEyQ5zMkjhILNfzB0wgr7mk1jCo4cMPcs/edit?usp=sharing Nick KK7LZM, Ron N4RDZ, Frank K7RSD, Matt KK7BAS, Jim WS7JIM and Cindi KD7KSH and others have been working working on a grant proposal to ARDC to fund mesh equipment to support events like the West Seattle Grand Parade and Seattle Emergency Hubs. We submitted that today. Take a look at the proposal. It can take several months for the grant committee to finish reviewing proposals. We will keep you updated as that proceeds. Join the NWMesh meetings (info on the club calendar) to participate. We will need help! AREDN Equipment Retrieved from Center For Active Living Jim WS7JIM and Nick KK7LZM retrieved an AREDN node we had at the Center for Active Living. That building is surrounded by taller buildings which is not the best for an AREDN site. Jim has suggested relocating that equipment to the Eagle Hall up the street which should have good visibility up and down California. Join the NWMesh meetings to participate. Lincoln Park April Club Meeting 10a April 19, Lincoln Park Shelter #4 The next club meeting is on April 19 and will be a park operation at Lincoln Park. We'll have a radio fox hunt and operating radio stations. So bring your go box or QRP rig or whatever you've got. We will have a special guest: a youth interested in getting a license and their mom. We could use everyone's friendly, welcoming participation. There will be coffee and some refreshments. If you'd like to bring something, please do. Fruit, pastries, a brunch dish to share, whatever you like would all be appreciated. Baofeng K6 and Chirp Jonathan KK7PW told us that the Baofeng K6 tri-bander is now supported by the radio memory programming software CHIRP. Brian KG7WRK noted that the Icom ICT10 is also now supported. 10m Gathering Monday nights 8pm at 28.420Mhz USB Anyone with a technician license and above is welcome to join folks for an informal gathering on 10m. We're at the height of the sunspot cycle so now is a great time to try out HF. Jonathan was able to work a station with 100watts in Casa Blanca just recently in the evening. So join the gathering and we might have unexpected visitors from around the globe. Today is transgender visibility day WSARC is an inclusive club welcoming anyone to share your interest in amateur radio, community service and just good company.

Rita KK7POO (editor) uploaded April 2025 Newsletter to Club's Google Drive. Newsletters are linked at W7AW.ORG > Club > Newsletter Newsletter 4-1-2025 Newsletter 3-1-2025 Newsletter 1-31-2025 April 2025 Newsletter topics: Spotlight On Tom Saunders, N7OEP April Calendar Events March 15 Meeting and Photo Ham Radio Go-Box Key Components Tools and Extras Design Considerations Uses

Club Board Meeting Last Saturday Budget: the board discussed potentially raising dues and/or asking for donations. We didn't pass any motion at this point, but will further discuss this. Seven Standing comittees we've seen at recent meetings were approved. We hope you'll consider joining a comittee to help the club by contacting a board member. ARDC Grant Proposal to support West Seattle Grand Parade NWMesh would like to support the West Seattle Grand Parade with AREDN and meshtastic technology. We hope to track some of the parade units as they progress down California Ave and show this on a big screen TV. We might also include some video cameras and IP phones. In addition to the regular NWMesh folks, Ken AB7X and Brian KG7WRK are going to help out with some expertise and equipment. Repeater News We got a great deal on a Motorola Quantar repeater to replace one of the club repeaters. Tom N7OEP is working on programming that repeater. He will possibly this weekend do the repeater swap. He's already got a couple of volunteers. Other interested folks should contact Tom if they want to participate.

The CQ WPX Contest Committee invites you to participate in the 2025 CQ WPX SSB contest which runs from 00:00 UTC on 29 March to 23:59 UTC on 30 March, 2025. CQ WPX SSB is the largest “everyone can work everyone for points” SSB operating event in the world. It’s a phenomenal opportunity to meet friends, build your prefix totals, contribute to your club’s efforts, and have fun! All are welcomed and encouraged to participate. The deadline for submitting logs is 23:59 UTC on 4 April 2025. Logs should be uploaded at < https://www.cqwpx.com/logcheck/ >. We encourage everyone to upload their logs and participants submitting logs for scoring by the deadline can download certificates once the results are published. Please go to https://cqwpx.com for the full set of rules, past results, records, plaques and other resources to support your CQ WPX SSB activities. We wish you all the best and look forward to seeing you in CQ WPX SSB 2025! 73, CQ WPX Contest Committee Contact us: https://cqwpx.com/contact/ Web: https://cqwpx.com

Club Board Meeting Saturday March 22, breakfast at 8:00a, meeting at ~9:30a Great American Diner, Alska Junction We'll be discussing budgets, among other topics. Standing Committee Volunteers If you have any questions email Alan or come to the upcoming club meeting Club Meeting: Winlink Workshop and Ham Connect Saturday March 15, 9:30a for workshop, 10:30a for Ham Connect Salvation Army, White Center Join us this Saturday at 9:30a for a Winlink Workshop covering how to get going with email over amateur radio. We'll have several elmers and several stations to try out Winlink if you don't have your own equipment. If you have a Winlink setup or even just a Windows laptop, bring it along and we'll help you get set up. COME EARLY FOR THE WORKSHOP: We strongly suggest you get there by 9:00am to get set up before the workshop begins. Join us at 10:30a when we'll be hosting Ham Connect, a regional partnership of six amateur radio groups. These groups will present to newly licensed and prospective hams. If you know any new hams looking to get involved in the community, please invite them. Everyone is welcome. This is our opportunity to recruit some new members. Maybe we can even recruit some new net control operators or folks to help out maintaining our equipment! FOOD NEEDED: We would really like folks to bring some food, perhaps fruit. Cindi KD7KSH has done a great job reliably providing coffee and food for club meetings. This event will involve a lot of other people so we could really use some help. Mike and Key Puyallup Swap Meet Last weekend Did you go? Did you pick up any treasures? Share with us your experience and photos! NWMesh Meeting Thursday March 13, 7:00p Zoom link information available on the club calendar We would love to have more folks helping out. We have some exciting plans for this year's West Seattle Grand Parade. We are planning a test operation later this month.

The DX-Adventure team is embarking on a DXpedition to the Andaman Islands (AS-001) as VU4AX from March 10th to March 20th, 2025. The team, consisting of 12 experienced operators, will be active around the clock on multiple bands from 10m to 160m, including WARC + 60m, using CW, SSB, and DIGI modes. They will operate six stations, transporting 1,150kg of meticulously prepared equipment to ensure the best possible experience. The DXpedition aims to provide a rare opportunity for QSOs, especially for USA operators, as VU4 ranks #28 for the USA and #53 worldwide. The team is supported by three experienced Pilot Stations: W2IRT Peter J. Dougherty, E21EIC Champ, and ON9CFG Bjorn. They will closely monitor propagation conditions to maximize the chances of contacts with stations across the United States. Updates and contact details for the Pilot Stations can be found on the DX-Adventure website - https://www.dx-adventure.com The DX-Adventure team looks forward to making a QSO with you from VU4 South Andaman.

Rita KK7POO (editor) uploaded club March Newsletter to Google Drive. Newsletters are linked at W7AW.ORG > Club > Newsletter March 2025 topics: Club member survey Interview with Frank NA7O Jonathan KK7PW DX Contest Certificate March calendar highlights Agenda for March 15 club meeting Introduction to EchoLink Year-end report for Seattle Emergency Hubs from Cindi KD7KSH New Logo Design presentation at Feb 15th club meeting A W7AW club image from the archive. (Travel trailer)

Feb Club Meeting: Comittees and other club administration Feb 15 9:30a for socializing 10:00a for club business Salvation Army White Center, in the Fellowship Hall Reminder, we will not have a Zoom link for this club meeting or any meetings moving forward. We really want to have people show up in person. And this will be an important meeting for how the club will operate in the future. Join us to discuss a proposal from our president, Alan WX7L, to create 7 standing committees to help run the club. Details were sent out to the club email mailing list, but the proposed committees are: Membership: communications, recruitment and new member support Social: activity planning Training: classes, testing, elmering Community Service: emergency communications and community communications support Operations: net control and repeater maintenance Media: website and Google workspace Quartermaster: managing club equipment If we move forward with this system we'll need volunteers to help run these activities. We will also discuss a number of other club business including a budget for 2025, A new logo for the club, including a collaboration between Jim WS7JIM and Mac KK7UMB and a number of other topics. Mar Club Meeting: Winlink workshop with MST and HamConnect Mar 15 9:30a for the workshop and 10:30a for HamConnect Salvation Army White Center, in the Fellowship Hall We will host a Winlink workshop with the Medical Services Team who support local hospitals with emergency communications support. In the workshop we'll learn how to send email over amateur radio. For those who are already familiar with Winlink, I hear we might cover some advanced topics like peer-to-peer and postoffice feaures. Following the workshop we'll host HamConnect a regional partnership of several Amateur Radio organizations welcoming new hams to the community. This is our chance to introduce our club to recently licensed hams in the region. Club Newsletter Monthly on the 1st Available on the Website Our club secretary, Rita KK7POO launched the first of a new run of newsletters for the club. She has some information about upcoming events and other content relating to the club and topics in Amateur Radio.

1st Edition of the Club's Monthly Newsletter Check your club email or the attachment to this posting Thanks to Rita for putting together the first edition of a newsletter for our club. Take a look, she's got a lot of great information for all of us. Thank you! Club Meeting Feb 15: Club Organization, Participation and Leadership planning Feb 15, 9:30a for socializing, 10:00a for the start of the meeting Salvation Army White Center I hope you'll join us on Feb 15 for our first club meeting of the year. We'll use this time to help plan out how our club will work in 2025. Our president, Alan WX7L, would like to discuss comittees, member participation and leadership planning. Alan proposes 7 comittees. We have a number of other discussion items including the possibly updating the club logo, print materials and merch for the club, planning for the WWARA Narrowband repeater migration, having a table a the upcoming Mike & Key Swap Meet, creating an equipment lending library, and more. I beleive this will be an important meeting which might determine how the club operates and what kind of programming we offer throughout 2025. Club Meeting March 15: MST Winlink Clinic and HamConnect March 15, 9:30a for Winlink 10:30a for HamConnect Salvation Army White Center In partnership with our friends at Western Washington Medical Services Team we're hosting a Winlink clinic to learn how we can help support our local healthcare system in times of emergency. What kind of Winlink content and activities would you like to see? Dan Hoke of MST is looking for suggestions to tailor the workshop to what you'd like to learn about. He suggests including peer-to-peer or postoffice Winlink features. We are looking for Winlink elmers to help out during the clinic. So even if you're already familiar with Winlink, this should be a great meeting to learn and to teach. Following that workshop we'll co-host HamConnect, a partnership of regional Amateur Radio clubs as each participating club presents their organization to newly licensed and prospective hams. This is our chance to show newcomers who we each are and how they can participate in the community. As always, details on all club events are on the club calendar. QRZ Page for W7AW Curt Black turned control over to our license trustee Tom, N7OEP. Tom and company will be working on updating the QRZ page. Thanks Curt and Tom! ACS Meeting send Ron N4RDZ an email for any business to bring before ACS. This will include bringing up the MOU for the club repeater located at the West Seattle Radio Tower at Highpoint resevoir. Zoom Club Meetings to be Discontinued Zoom at club meetings is proving not to be used too much and is a lot to manage. So we will be discontinuing the zoom link meetings.

Elmer's Breakfaast Saturday Feb 1, 8a at the Great American Diner in the Alaska Junction Come for help or just for breakfast. Folks meet in the back room of the diner. There's usually a handful of folks willing to help out with radio stuff or just to socialize. VE Testing Mike and Key Swap Meet VE testing is all booked up Feb 8: 6 openings in Redmond Feb 15: 9 openings in Kent with Mike and Key contact Alan WX7L for more information Mike and Key Swap Meet looking for volunteers https://mkarc.ivolunteer.com/ This is a great way to get free admission to the event and to serve your radio community. It sounds like a few hours of volunteering on Friday, March 7 or Saturday March 8 gets you free admission. If have folks interested in going to the event, perhaps we can organize a carpool. It's a bit of a drive with sometimes tricky parking, so taking fewer vehicles probably makes sense. I won't be able to attend this year, but I'd like to encourage folks that do go to take a club photo together and share that back with the rest of us. Maybe we can post that to the website to share with everyone. ARRL Scholarship Fund for Hams in college to help support their studies. Lauren K7LRN and Mac KK7UMB have both applied. This is part of what your ARRL membership dues go to support. Eric W7FCL wants to remind us of that important work many of us are supporting. If you're not an ARRL member, you can join today: https://www.arrl.org/membership WSARC Club Age Ken AB7X and Frank NA7O remind us that during the depression W7AW didn't have enough money to keep the club going, so the current records at ARRL actually underestimate the club's actual age. Eric W7FCL is willing to do some research on the topic if anyone has anything to share. February Club Meeting: club participation, leadership planning and club meeting format Feb 15, 9:30a at the Salvation Army White Center https://w7aw.org/calendar/ Our president Alan, WX7L, would like to use the February club meeting to discuss organizing comittees to help organize club activities and planning for future leadership in the club. We'd love to have your participation in this discussion and perhaps your help volunteering to help organize things. In addition to those topics, we have a set of discussion items related to club activities including planning for club print materials (like business cards), potentially updating the club logo, having a table at the upcoming Mike and Key Swap Meet, and creating a club inventory lending library. I hope we'll get to hear your ideas relating to these topics and more. Our president Alan, WX7L, has a proposal to change the venue and format for future club meetings to present. I hope we'll get your input and feedback. This is something we can discuss at the February club meeting. Related, I'm preparing a list of future club meeting activities. In March we'll be running a Winlink workshop with the Western Washington Medical Services Team (MST0 and we'll host Ham Connect, a regional partnership of radio groups presenting each of our organizations to newly licensed hams. In April Alan and I discussed having a field activity, perhaps at Lincoln Park as we did last year. If you have ideas, please share them with me. Google Workspace Just a reminder that we get the workspace for free because of our 501(3)c status. We're lucky to have that. There are many tools and apps we get access to, including "Google Meet" a video conferencing app, spreadsheets, docs, etc. If you need some help, feel free to ask for help, maybe by replying to this message. We have a lot of smart technical people that can give you a hand.

#greatfun British Columbia QSO Party: 1600Z, Feb 1 to 0359Z, Feb 2 and 1600Z-2359Z, Feb 2 Geographic Focus: United States/Canada state/province QSO party Participation: Worldwide Mode: CW, SSB Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m Classes: Single Op (CW/SSB/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Multi-Op (CW/SSB/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Max power: HP: >100 watts LP: 100 watts QRP: 5 watts Exchange: BC: RS(T) + District non-BC: RS(T) + (state/province/"DX") Work stations: Once per band per mode QSO Points: 2 point per SSB QSO 4 points per CW QSO 20 bonus points per QSO with VA7ODX Multipliers: BC: each BC district, each state, each VE province/territory once per band per mode non-BC: each BC district once per band per mode Score Calculation: Total score = (total QSO points x total mults) + bonus points Submit logs by: February 17, 2025 E-mail logs to: va7bec[at]gmail[dot]com Upload log at: https://bcqp.contesting.com/bcqpsubmitlog.php Mail logs to: BCQP Log Submissions 371 56th Street Delta, BC V4L 1Z4 Canada Find rules at: https://www.orcadxcc.org/bcqp_rules.html North American Sprint, CW: 0000Z-0359Z, Feb 2 Geographic Focus: North America Participation: Worldwide Awards: North America Mode: CW Bands: 80, 40, 20m Classes: Single Op (QRP/Low/High) Max operating hours: 4 hours Max power: HP: 1500 watts LP: 100 watts QRP: 5 watts Exchange: [other station's call] + [your call] + [serial no.] + [your name] + [your state/province/country] QSY rule: CQing station must QSY after QSO Work stations: Once per band QSO Points: NA station: 1 point per QSO non-NA station: 1 point per QSO with an NA station Multipliers: Each US state/DC (including KH6/KL7) once Each VE province/territory once Each North American country (except W/VE) once Score Calculation: Total score = total QSO points x total mults Submit logs by: 0400Z February 9, 2025 E-mail logs to: (none) Upload log at: https://www.ncjweb.com/sprintlogsubmit/ Mail logs to: (none) Find rules at: https://ncjweb.com/Sprint-Rules.pdf

Volunteer Sign Up Links for M&K Swap Meet https://mkarc.ivolunteer.com/ https://mkarc.ivolunteer.com/event_013 Fri March 7 https://mkarc.ivolunteer.com/event_014 Sat March 8 M&K Swap Meet Documents https://www.mikeandkey.org/fleainfo.php

Share your photos from the Annual Club Meeting on Jan 18, 2025 Upload your images to the Shared Google Drive using your club account. Shared Drives > WSARC Public > Public > Photos > 2025-01-18 Annual Club Meeting If that is too challenging, send your images as email attachments to KI7YRA @WestSeattleARC.org and I will upload them for you. If you want credit for the images, put your name or call sign in the filename. When you double-click an image file name, it turns into a slide show.

What a fantastic dinner we had last night. Thanks everyone that came. I believe there's photos that might be floating around. I hope folks will share them. Thanks to all our outgoing board members. Thanks for your service and I look forward to seeing you at club meetings and on the net without any board responsibilities :) Former President: Jonathan Scherch KK7PW Former Treasurer: Greg Wright W7GFW Former Quartermaster: Brian Nozynski KG7WRK Former Board Position 1: Jon Wright N7JWW Former Board Position 3: Michelle Edwards WS7HIU We also had our club election. Here are the results: President: Alan Dieringer WX7L Treasurer: Jose Pagan KK7GDE Quartermaster: John Kimball KF7AZP Board Position 1: Ron Zuber N4RDZ Board Position 3: Frank McJunkins K7RSD And we appointed a new Secretary, Rita Whitman KK7POO to serve out the remaining year of our unfilled Secretary position. Thank you to all our candidates and new board members for your service! -- Nick Gerner, KK7LZM VP, West Seattle Amateur Radio Club https://w7aw.org https://w7aw.groups.io

Farewell and Thank You to Some Current Board Members: Tonight is the final Monday Night Net for a number of board members and officers. I beleive all of them are going to be around, but their terms on the board is over for now. Thanks so much for all you've done for the club. We had a lot of great events this year including Field Day, a number of park operations, an ARISS astronaut radio contact with the International Space Station. We're ending the year with quite a lot of money in the bank and we actually raised money over this year. We have a new storage unit that we're collaborating with other local radio groups. It's been a fantastic year full of activities and actually quite of bit of planning and administration. So thank you for all your efforts. We're really set up for success as we enter this next quarter century. President Jonathan Scherch KK7PW Quartermaster Brian Nozynski KG7WRK Treasurer Greg Wright W7GFW Board Position 1 Jon Wright N7JWW Board Position 3 Michelle Edwards W7HIU The Women of Early Amateur Radio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw5PbqtLuis Jonathan suggests us as a club to look at a documentary The Women of Early Amateur Radio from Donna L. Halper, PhD, an associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Lesley University, Cambridge MA. This documents contributions by women to early last century amateur radio. Club Elections and Annual Dinner Angelo's of Burien 601 SW 153rd St, Burien, WA 98166, USA Jan 18 7:00pm We will hold our annual meeting, board and officer elections and annual dinner this coming Saturday evening at Angelo's. The company is complimentary. Angelo's will serve a delisious dinner menu that is your responsibility. We have a reservation on behalf of the whole club for the meeting room. You do not need to call ahead. We will have a white elephant gift exchange! Bring a wrapped, inexpensive gift and Cindi KD7KSH will run a game of selecting and stealing prizes Positions and Candidates: President: Alan Dieringer WX7L Treasurer: Jose Pagan KK7GDE Quartermaster: John Kimball KF7AZP Board Positions 1 and 3: Ron Zuber N4RDZ and Frank McJunkins K7RSD

Annual Meeting and Dinner at Angelo's of Burien Jan 18, 7pm at Angelo's of Burien, 601 Southwest 153rd Street, Burien, Wash. 98166 This will be our annual members meeting. We'll also have a white elephant gift exchange organized by Cindi KD7KSH. The dinner comapny is complementary, you are responsible for food and drink. This is a friendly reminder to renew your membership for 2025 if you haven't already. Your dues must be paid in full to vote at the annual meeting. Organizing courtesey of Ken AB7X and Cindi KD7KSH. White Elephant Exchange: bring a low cost gift for exchange at the dinner. These can be practical, impractical, something you want to get rid of. A radio related gift would be perfect. We'll figure out what order to open presents. Each person will select a gift. Each subsequent person will have a choice of taking a new gift or stealing something from someone who's already gotten one. They'll have to pick something new. Gifts can only be stolen a certain number of times. For the Annual meeting we must have a quorum of 20% of members. So it's important to show up! Mike and Key Puyallup Swap Meet Saturday March 8 at the Washington State Fairgrounds https://www.mikeandkey.org/flea.php Always a great show. This is a great place to pick up some radio gear or to learn about amateur radio if you're new to the hobby. In the past the club has had a table to sell old equipment. In fact, last year's sales were a big source of revenue for the club in 2024. Perhaps folks would like to organize a trip there and maybe especially invite new hams in the club or community to come along. Having an elmer to walk around with at the swap meet can really help. 10m Gathering 24.420MHz USB 8pm every Monday Night Technicians have priviledges on this frequency and it's a fun way to try out HF. We frequently get folks from all over the world joining us. It's a lot of fun.