Plans for Nevada's first ARRL State Convention are right on track with a little more than one month to the big event. Online registration has begun at the NvCON website. Full story and details here.
ARRL Nevada Section Manager Gary Grant - K7VY has announced that he has made two new appointments to the Nevada Section leadership staff.
John Bigley - N7UR of Las Vegas has been appointed as Section Public Information Coordinator and Ray Maxwell - W7TAP of Reno will serve as the Section Official Observer Coordinator.....Story Here The Net Manager of the popular daily Noon Net in Reno has passed away.
David Ruppert KF7BNO expired March 9th at Renown Regional Medical Center. Story Here A SKYWARN Class will be held Thursday, March 20, 2014 from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. Interactive Classroom Site location will be the Elko Weather Service. Read the story here
The Delaware State Police have announced that they are teaming up with the Sussex County Amateur Radio Service to ensure reliable back-up communications for the State Police should their primary communications system fail....Read the story here.
The monthly breakfast meetings of the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society will now be held at the Denny's located at 205 East Nugget Avenue in Sparks. This is the corner of I-80 and McCarran Blvd.
The meeting location was changed following the recent closure of Jack's Café in South Reno. The meeting is from 7:30 to 8:30 AM beginning on April 5th. The Salvation Army has announced that the FCC recently approved a new call sign for a newly crated SATERN station located in the Salvation Army's Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (ALM) Division's Emergency Disaster Services center...full story here
Jack's Restaurant, the meeting site for the Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society, closed their doors recently.
The sudden closure forced club officers to suspend the March Breakfast Meeting....read about it here. Nevada Section Manager Joe Giraudo - N7JEH of Spring Creek has announced that he will be stepping down from that position effective February 28.
Giraudo is a professional engineer and property manager for Barrick Gold Mining. New employment duties have increasingly made it necessary for Joe to be out of Nevada, and even the states, for extended periods....read about it here. Members of the Lane County Sheriffs Amateur Radio Operators, an ARRL Affiliated Club, are being credited with the rescue of an elderly Eugene, Oregon man.
On Sunday, the 78 year old dementia patient's wife reported that he had wandered away from his home east of the University of Oregon Campus...read the story here.... Robert Galindo-KE7ADT was critically injured around noon last Thursday when the winching cable snapped while he was working on his forty foot crank-up tower. Read the story here....
It's not unusual to find licensed amateur radio operators who passed the test, often a decade or more ago, received their callsign, and have never been on the air! Read about it here.....
Arizona Near Space Research (ANSR) is pleased to announce the flight of ANSR-80. This high altitude balloon flight will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 9:00 A.M. The launch site will be the Yuma County Fairgrounds in conjunction with the 10th Annual 2014 Yuma Hamfest and ARRL Arizona Section Convention...read about it here....
Yaesu and the Caribbean Amateur Radio Group have joined together in supporting the Arecibo Observatory Amateur Radio Club (KP4AO)located at the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, USA. Read more about it here.....
The K7QQQ Repeater Club is offering a series of free, monthly seminars featuring a wide variety of amateur radio related topics. Click here to read more....
A 300 ft tall communications tower in Clarksburg, West Virginia collapsed Saturday during repairs, killing two workers, and causing the collapse of a second tower which killed a Nutter Fork Volunteer Firefighter. Read about it here....
Washoe County ARES will be starting an EmComm Level 1 Class, starting the first week of February.......get all the info here.
The following is an article about 10year old Samuel Case-KG7HBY, who it appears has been bitten by the DX bug....read about Sam here.
Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc. has launched a new UHF amateur radio repeater located in the Enterprise Township (Southwest) portion of the Las Vegas Valley. While repeater bring-ups seem routine, this repeater has quite a unique feature in that it’s located in the heart of a deed-restricted community......read the story here
Police in McMinnville, Tenn have reported that for more than a month they were the subject of intentional interference to their public safety frequency by a "Pirate" broadcaster using ham radio......click here to read
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