Summary of the 2025 PNWVHFS Wenatchee Conference - 30 attendees
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K7YO
Oct 18, 2025, 7:54:44 AM (13 days ago) Oct 18
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President Jim Garver, K7YO, gave an introduction with information about club membership expansion and online resources for communication and file backup, ie:
our Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/pnwvhfs
and our FaceBook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/347865758885063
Jim Christianson, K7ND, gave the first presentation where he described Meteor Scatter propagation and techniques. The meteor scatter freq. is 144.150 Mhz using MSK144. Discussion groups are on Slack and Ping Jockey.
Ray Cannon, W7GLF, gave a presentation on long distance Microwave communication.
Barry Hansen, K7BWH, gave a presentation on his long distance roving expedition to DL88 with Ed Sershon, N7PHY.
Salvatore Spagnole, KA7ZDL, President of the local Apple City Radio Club, gave a presentation about their activities, their 146.80 VHF repeater, and emergency preparedness. www.applecityarc.com
Lance Collister, W7GJ, talked about his extensive DXpeditions in the Solomon Islands and the difficulties of 6 meter EME.
An abbreviated Business update meeting was held due to lack of officer staff.
Barry Hansen, K7BWH, resigned from scoring contests and is soliciting a new scoring volunteer for the Contest Award position. No volunteers were forthcoming. Please contact ba...@k7bwh.com if you’re willing to help.
The 2025 VHFer of the year award with plaque was presented to Ed Sershon, N7PHY, for his epic long roves across the western USA and managing the FFMA Leader Board.
A ticket raffle was held for the eleven prizes and donations made by members and vendors, including Directive Systems and DownEast Microwave.
A group photo was taken in the atrium and then a tailgate swap meet was held in the back parking lot.
Many thanks to Al W7HDD, and Jim K7ND, for arranging and helping with our conference. Also, Salvatore KA7ZDL, kicked in and helped with materials for the raffle and finance collection.
See you next year, and see you today at Rickreall Swaptoberfest: 10/18/2025
our Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/pnwvhfs
and our FaceBook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/347865758885063
Jim Christianson, K7ND, gave the first presentation where he described Meteor Scatter propagation and techniques. The meteor scatter freq. is 144.150 Mhz using MSK144. Discussion groups are on Slack and Ping Jockey.
Ray Cannon, W7GLF, gave a presentation on long distance Microwave communication.
Barry Hansen, K7BWH, gave a presentation on his long distance roving expedition to DL88 with Ed Sershon, N7PHY.
Salvatore Spagnole, KA7ZDL, President of the local Apple City Radio Club, gave a presentation about their activities, their 146.80 VHF repeater, and emergency preparedness. www.applecityarc.com
Lance Collister, W7GJ, talked about his extensive DXpeditions in the Solomon Islands and the difficulties of 6 meter EME.
An abbreviated Business update meeting was held due to lack of officer staff.
Barry Hansen, K7BWH, resigned from scoring contests and is soliciting a new scoring volunteer for the Contest Award position. No volunteers were forthcoming. Please contact ba...@k7bwh.com if you’re willing to help.
The 2025 VHFer of the year award with plaque was presented to Ed Sershon, N7PHY, for his epic long roves across the western USA and managing the FFMA Leader Board.
A ticket raffle was held for the eleven prizes and donations made by members and vendors, including Directive Systems and DownEast Microwave.
A group photo was taken in the atrium and then a tailgate swap meet was held in the back parking lot.
Many thanks to Al W7HDD, and Jim K7ND, for arranging and helping with our conference. Also, Salvatore KA7ZDL, kicked in and helped with materials for the raffle and finance collection.
See you next year, and see you today at Rickreall Swaptoberfest: 10/18/2025
K7YO
Oct 18, 2025, 5:33:44 PM (12 days ago) Oct 18
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The Rickreall swap meet was cancelled due to a broken 6" water line, so we
had a tailgate party in the parking lot instead. The weather was nice, and those who stayed got some good deals from people like me who didn't want to take it all back home. See you there in February 2026.
- K7YO
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