News and Updates

July 2020 Meeting Minutes

SnoVARC July 2nd, 2020 Business Meeting Minutes Attendees: Tom (WA7TBP) Howard (WA1HEM) Paul (W7PFB) Ralph (KC7QXD) Lindy (KG7IFA) Kirt (K7KDW) Robin (WA7CPA) Rowland (K7RWB) Tom (WA7TPB) Called the meeting to order at 18:20 Lindy (KG7IFA) gave the treasurer report and reported that Snovarc has a $9351.09 positive balance. Lindy also explained that before any equipment...

June 2020 Meeting Minutes

SnoVARC June 4th, 2020 Business Meeting Minutes Attendees: Tom (WA7TBP), Jim (W7ABD), Howard (WA1HEM), Paul (W7PFB), Ralph (KC7QXD), Irvina (W7IRM), Kirt (K7KDW), Robin (WA7CPA), Rowland (K7RWB) Tom (WA7TBP) called the business meeting to order at 18:04 Tom gave the treasurers report, in the absence of the Treasurer, Lindy (KG7IFA), indicating that there was a balance...

May 2020 Meeting Minutes

May 7, 2020 Snoqualmie Valley Amateur Radio Club Business Meeting Members Guests Tom WA7TBP   Howard WA1HEM   Paul W7PFB   Kirt K7KDW   Robin WA7CPA   Rowland K7RWB   Ralph KC7QXD   Dan KA7GPP   Meeting was Called to Order by Tom (WA7TBP) at 18:18 Tom motioned to have the April board minutes approved....

April 2020 Meeting Minutes

April 2, 2020 SnoVARC Business Meeting Minutes:   2020 Members in Attendance: Guests/Prior Members in Attendance:     Robin Amundson WA7CPA   Rowland Brasch K7RWB   Paul Butzi W7PFB   Lindy Friedlander KG7IFA   Ralph Lease KC7QXD   Howard Mahran WA1HEM   Irvina Mizell W7IRM   Tom Needham WA7TBP   Kirt White K7KDW   Jim...

January 2020 Meeting Minutes

January 2, 2020 SnoVARC Business Meeting Minutes 2020 Members in Attendance: Guests/Prior Members in Attendance:     Robin Amundson WA7CPA Jesse Brasch W7JEB Rowland Brasch K7RWB Bill Condon k7WJC Rick Burns KB7CIN Robin Thompson G3TKF Paul Butzi W7PFB Ron Wilander KJ7GLC Lindy Friedlander KG7IFA   Louis Giliberto KD7HCW   Linda Hanson KI7NWT   Milton Hanson...

November 2019 Meeting Minutes (UPDATED)

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club Meeting Minutes for November 7, 2019 Business Meeting called to order 6:15 p.m. Duvall Fire Station 45 by Tom, WA7TBP. We began with a minute of silence in remembrance of Terry Beedle, WA7TBP, SK. A sympathy card was signed by attendees to be mailed to his family. 14 members and guests...

October 2019 Meeting Minutes

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club Meeting Minutes for October 3, 2019 Business Meeting called to order 6:15 p.m. Duvall Fire Station 45 by Tom, WA7TBP. 14 members and guests present for business and Elmer meeting: Rowland Brasch, Paul Butzi, Bill Condon, Lindy Friedlander, Milton Hanson, Ralph Lease, Howard Mahran, Irvina Mizell, Jim Myers, Tom Needham, Rob...

September 2019 Meeting Minutes

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club Meeting Minutes for September 5, 2019 Business Meeting called to order 6:15 p.m. Duvall Fire Station 45 by Tom, WA7TBP. 15 members and guests present for business and meeting: Robin Amundson, Rowland Brasch, Paul Butzi, David Faires, Lindy Friedlander, Ken Kosters, Ralph Lease, Howard Mahran, Irvina Mizell, Jim Myers, Tom Needham,...

August 2019 Meeting Minutes

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club Meeting Minutes for August 1, 2019 Business Meeting called to order 6:15 p.m. Duvall Fire Station 45 by Tom, WA7TBP. 19 members and guests present for business and meeting: Robin Amundson, Athena Ayres, Kevin Ayres, Rowland Brasch, Lynn Burlingame, Paul Butzi, David Faires, Lindy Friedlander, Louis Giliberto, Ken Koch, Ken Kosters,...

New Ham Net 6/27/19

Topics Discussed Evenings In The Park Cancelled tonight due to weather Next gathering will be on 7/11 Possible fox hunt activities during next gathering. If you have a Handi-Finder bring it to test and maybe show someone else how to use it Field Day Discussed what field day activities people participated in over Field Day...

June 2019 Meeting Minutes

Snoqualmie Valley Radio Club Meeting Minutes for June 6, 2019 Business Meeting called to order 6:15 p.m. Duvall Fire Station 45 by Tom, WA7TBP. 27 members and guests present for business and meeting: Robin Amundson, Jesse Brasch, Rowland Brasch, Rick Burns, Paul Butzi, Paula Butzi, Joe Carpenter, Nancy Carpenter, Bill Condon, David Faires,  Lindy Friedlander,...

New Ham Net 5/30/19

Topics Discussed Net control for the net If you’d like an opportunity to be net control operator for the net, please contact me via email (newhamnet@snovarc.org) or in person at the meetings or evenings in the park gatherings Evenings in the park Net was informed of the evenings in the park event section on the...

New Ham Net 5/23/19

Topics Discussed Recent and Upcoming Events Dayton Hamvention – May 17-19 DMR Gathering at Valley Camp – May 18-19 SEA-PAC – May 31 – June 2 Evenings in the park gathering Announced the start of the gatherings Polled the net for interest in attending. All participants said they would be interested in attending First gathering...

New Ham Net 5/16/19

Topics Discussed Power Supply Noise Issues One net participant had noise interference while listening on HF frequencies only when the power supply was on. The issue seemed to be specific to this power supply as it was possibly emitting lots of RFI due to insufficient shielding. Power Supplies (Linear vs Switching) No participants indicated that...

New Ham Net 5/9/19

Topics Discussed New hams from the April Snovarc classes Congratulations to the 14 new hams that passed their tests in April and received their call signs this week 3 new hams joined us on the net tonight for the first time tonight Evenings in the park Coming up, we will start gathering at the Big...