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Spruce Goose Special Event

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
marks the 75th anniversary of the first and only flight of this massive
“proof of concept” plane, which was moved from Long Beach to the
Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OR quite a few years ago. To
mark the occasion, the “Spruce Goose 75th Anniversary of Flight
Amateur Radio Special Event” has been established. It’s scheduled to
run from Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 1700 UTC, through Sunday November
6th 2022, at 2359 UTC. The special event is a joint effort between the
Hughes Amateur Radio Club of El Segundo, CA, and the McMinnville Amateur
Radio Club here in Oregon. The callsigns for the event will be W6HA, and
W6HA/7 respectively, and frequencies will be SSB: 3.833, 7.233, 14.233,
21.333, and 28.333 MHz, and CW: 3.533, 7.033, 14.033, 21.033, and 28.033
MHz.

Address for special commemorative QSL Card:

Brian Johnson, AB6UI, W6HA Trustee
5207 Lillian Street
Torrance, CA 90503

For more information regarding this special event, check out Hughes
Amateur Radio Club website: www.W6HA.org

Technician Class Scheduled

Mike Eastman N7ONP will lead a 2-day class on successive Saturdays, intended to help prospective new hams prepare to pass the exam for a Technician Class license. Attendees are encouraged to use additional self-learning opportunities in addition to the class. Bring your lunch, or plan to make a quick lunch run.

Day 1: Saturday, October 22, 2022 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Day 2: Saturday, October 29, 2022 from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

First Presbyterian Church
227 NE 12th St., Westminster Conference Room
Newport, OR 97365

Registration link

No Nonsense Study Guide

Licensing Information Sheet

General Licensing Information

Field Day Site Evaluation Form

Do you know of a site that might be good for Field Day? Winter Field Day? Some other event or exercise? Download the (fillable) form below and return to Michelle KA7OQQ, or to n7oy.lcarc (at) gmail.com. This will help us build a database of sites to choose from as we plan events.

Site Evaluation Form

No Friday Forums Aug. 19 & 26

The “Zoom Master” will be off the grid for the next two weeks, and unable to host the usual Zoom meetings on these dates:

August 19 Digital Modes
August 26 GMRS

Someone else is welcome to host these meetings, but they will need to create and share a new link for those meetings.

Work Party at the Barn

A message from Joe NJ7OK:

We will be working at the “barn” this Saturday from 10 to 12 then lunch. Have a project, something to work on, or just want to help out?

Last month Michelle and Anne (Ann ?) helped us to get our work space cleaned out. Hue cleaned the gutters for Margaret. She made the request and told me that I could not!

CU there,

Joe

Meeting Night: July 12, 2022

2nd Tuesday Meetings:

Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS) – 1800 hours
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87421088728?pwd=Ui9aQmdCUytodXVGMTVOaW5VOUswZz09
- Meeting ID: 874 2108 8728
- Passcode: 530780
Club Meeting – 1900 hours
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89823287051
- Meeting ID: 898 2328 7051
- Waiting Room, no passcode

Work party at the Barn

A message from Joe NJ7OK:

This coming Saturday July 9 at 10 AM to noon we will be having a work party at Willies barn. We will be working on cleaning up the benches, sorting equipment, determining what to sell next time, preparing tower and antenna for the next event, etc. We will have some fun.

FT5D for sale

FT5DR acquired from a new ham who needed to sell. The FT5 is the top-of-the-line Yaesu Fusion-capable handheld. I bought everything so he could move on, at 10% off the retail prices and will resell for what I paid. Everything is in new condition. Some items could be sold separately.

A list of items with prices he paid is below:

Qty Model Unit-Price Extension Shipment-Info
1 FT5DR 459.95 459.95 – PENDING-OR Best Way
1 SRH77CA 22.95 22.95 – PENDING-OR Best Way
1 SSM-17A 39.95 39.95 – PENDING-OR Best Way
1 SHB-26 ORANGE SBP-01 0.00 0.00 – PENDING-OR Best Way
1 NIFTY-FT5DR 26.95 26.95 – PENDING-OR Best Way
569.80 Taxable
-20.00 Less Coupons
Ham Radio Outlet $549.80 Total

Dual band 2M / 70CM Slim Jim Antenna with 10′ or 16′ Cable.
Connector: SMA Male
Cable Length: 10′ Cable
Antenna hook: Add an antenna hook to this order.
SKU: DUAL-2M70CM-LONG-SMAM
$28.98

CD-41 Charger for Yaesu Vertex Radio FT5DR
Amazon $25.99

(2-Pack) 7.2V SBR-14Li Replacement Battery for Yaesu FT-5DR with belt clips
Amazon $59.99

Contact me at choirboy1953 (at) gmail.com

Field Day 2022!

Field Day planning for the Lincoln County Amateur Radio Club has been rather ad hoc this year, with a major emergency exercise (Cascadia Rising) taking place less than two weeks prior. But, it’s happening!

Our location will be on NE Harney, across from the Lincoln County Commons (Fairgrounds), in the field north of the Animal Shelter. You can’t miss it.

Setup will be Friday afternoon, June 24. Field Day operations begin at 11:00 Saturday morning, June 25 and will continue into Sunday morning.

Lunchtime Net

The Lunchtime net will resume this Friday, June 17, 1220 – 1300 hours on 145.370, tone 167.9. The net was suspended during the Cascadia Rising exercise.