Category: News

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

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.

Cascadia Coastal Coalition

Ralph KA8ZGM has provided information on upcoming talks from the Cascadia Coastal Coalition:

Talks are free and can be viewed in-person or by zoom.  Watch www.cascadiacoastalcoalition.org for updates and zoom info. RalphKA8ZGM

Next Upcoming Event: Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 10:00 am 

• What:   Spring Speaker Series
• Who: 
• Session 1: Yumei Wang, PE, FASCE, Owner of SLS LLC, and Senior Advisor on Infrastructure
• Resilience and Risk Affiliate Faculty, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Portland State University. 

• Cascadia Catastrophe in Coastal Communities

• Wang will discuss the expected catastrophic impacts from a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami on coastal communities, describing tsunami casualty estimates in each community, the breakdown of the Highway 101’s bridges that will result in a series of “islands”, and specific challenges that hospitals face in preparing for this inevitable disaster. People need to help reduce the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, including a Cascadia catastrophe. The “triple 3 resilience target” integrates readiness, response and recovery goals to strengthen community resilience. She will share fuel and water disaster planning guidelines aimed to help coastal hospitals prepare for “the big one”.

• Session 2:  Sky Terry , NW Regional Emergency Services Director.  Emergency Volunteer Aviation Team from NW Washington. http://www.evac.org/  and  http://www.evac.org/northwest.htm

• Hello, 

• Sky Terry is the NW Regional Emergency Services Director for the Emergency Volunteer Air Corps (EVAC) and also one of the leaders of the West Coast General Aviation Response Plan (WCGARP).

• It’s been well over a decades worth of drills, responses and effort but what we’ve developed together is a aviation based resource tied with ground support and HAM communication that we believe is the juggernaut that can take the worst the planet can dish out and can rise to the occasion to be that life saving critical life line when it’s needed the most.  Below is just one video of one of our past drills.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDJFjoXDgWQ&t=277s

• Thank you again for being willing to be a part of this noble effort and below is our main website with some great additional information.

• www.evac.org/northwest.htm