Saturday August 16, 2005
Meet behind the elementary school in Port Orford at 8 AM. Look for the Comm trailer.
The race starts at 9AM and usually lasts an hour.
There will be several things to enjoy after the race, such as a canine demonstration, as well as vendors.
Radios tune to the Port Orford (Coast Guard Hill 147.200 + 118.8) repeater.
Contact Harry Bryant, KC7HVM oneshothrb@msn.com or 541-991-2458.
A free, weekly, live, Amateur Radio Technician Class Licensing course on Zoom will begin on Thursday, Sept 4, and will run through Thursday, October 16 (7 sessions).
Sessions last three hours and start at 6:30 PM Eastern Time and they will be recorded.
These classes are sponsored by the Amateur Radio Club of the National Electronics Museum.
Share with anyone you know that you think would be interested.
To join the class, email Rol at roland.anders@comcast.net.
Courtesy of Tom K3YH
NOTE: NEW meeting link for the August meeting.
I am very excited to share that we will have an outside presenter at this club meeting. Tim Kuhlman KD7RUS Clark County Amateur Radio Club Director of Operations, in Washington, will be giving a presentation over Zoom about Eyewarn. Our county has the Eyewarn Simplex Net every Tuesday at 1830, but Eyewarn started in Washington. I suspect we will learn about how the average amateur radio operator can contribute in emergencies. I hope that we can have a good turnout for Tim’s presentation.
We will be at Puerto Vallarta in Coos Bay for dinner at 1700, and the meeting will start right at 1800, with the presentation right at the beginning.
Topic: Coos County Radio Club Meeting
Time: Aug 14, 2025 17:30 Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/74345220950
Meeting ID: 743 4522 0950
AT&T stopped supporting email-to-text and text-to-email transcription services.
Why does this matter? Emergency notification services broadly depend on those services to notify subscribers.
A recent example is the 8.9 earthquake on July 29th.
The US Government supplies earthquake notification services via email and text message.
Many monitor for such events primarily because they live in Tsunami evacuation zones. Members of county emergency response networks subscribe to these notifications to keep abreast of trouble.
When those earthquake notifications failed to arrive, I explored why.
I verified the configuration at my account at USGS. No issues.
Next I tried sending myself a message using the criteria that the ENS system depends on. That test failed (image below.)
USGS ENS is designed to send messages in an email format – support for which was discontinued.
This affects how many subscribers?
ARES/RACES members subscribing text notifications on various services may be affected. Other carriers may follow discontinuing their transcription services as well.
The Annual Pacific Northwest DX Convention takes place in Clackamas, Oregon from August 15-17, 2025.
Hotel, Registration and Schedule Here:
The PNW DX Convention is an official ARRL sanctioned event. Open to everyone.
Hosted by Willamette Valley DX Club (www.wvdxc.org).
Sunday afternoon at Bullards Beach State Park Gary N6BLU and John KK6GUK inhabited a picnic table with a radio and a couple of antennas.
What’s worth noting is that John has been very busy interfacing the POTA powers that establish listed parks. He’s had two added in Coos County just this year. Anyway, those are his stories to tell when he gets around to it. (Right bro?)
What I learned in conversation was that having a double park to call from really improves the attention “Spotters” give to the QSO. That means they generated several pileups and lots of contacts in a relatively short period. In this case that day, it was Bullards State Park and the Oregon Coastal Trail.
But then Gary suggested that a three-fer was possible if a station activated just over the dune, near the water. That session would be able to call Bullards, the Coastal Trail and the Oregon Shores parks numbers.
Imagine that activation?
Anyway, I’ve updated our POTA page. You can find this page (and others) in main menu under “Get Connected“.
Coos County is blessed with 15 parks to activate. A place is close by to everyone.
Let me know if I missed any that belong on the list?
https://coosradioclub.net/pota
Circle the Bay is coming up on Saturday August 9th. This is an all-hands on deck event similar to Tour de Fronds or the Prefontaine Memorial run.
The run starts at 8am and ends at Ferry Park in North Bend and is generally over by 1PM.
Please let us know if you can come out and participate with communications on the course or if you have any questions.
Please send your RSVP and where you were located on the course last year if you participated to:
Dell KE7EIB will be in charge and taking care of communicating with the race director.
Thanks Everyone!
Gary N6BLU
Coos County Radio Club to assist Coos ARES doing Radio Communication Services for the race.
CCRC members wishing to assist – RSVP. Mention where you were located on the course last year if you participated.
Dell KE7EIB will be in charge and taking care of communicating with the race director.
Start/Finish at Ferry Road Park, 496 Park Avenue, North Bend, OR 97459
The summer North American QSO Party (NAQP) contests are almost here!
NAQP RTTY on July 19
NAQP CW on August 2
NAQP SSB on August 16
Please add them to your calendar, and start talking with your friends
if you want to do a Multi-op, or assemble a Team of Single-ops.
Rules, results and records are all at the National Contest Journal:
https://ncjweb.com/naqp/ <https://ncjweb.com/naqp/>
The North American QSO Party contests are fun, friendly and fast.
Exchange is a Name and State (or Province or DXCC).
Party time is Saturday afternoon and evening, starting at 1800Z for 12 hours.
Single-ops add score for up to 10 of the 12 hours, so can you have 2 hours off
for meals, family, etc. … Plan your time off to maximize your score or fun.
NAQP contests have both Assisted and Non-Assisted categories for Single-ops,
and lots of State and Province Records in Assisted are yet to be claimed.
Assisted may help when chasing Multipliers across the five bands (10m – 80m).
There is a Multi-Two category for groups of operators,
and any group of two to five Single Operators can form a "Team", to combine
their scores under their latest "clever team name."
You have a chance to get your picture and story in the contest results
by sending them to the contest manager. You’ll be famous!
First up is NAQP RTTY on July 19, 2025.
RTTY Practice is available every Thursday night at 0145Z (Friday UTC).
https://radiosport.world/wrt.html <https://radiosport.world/wrt.html>
See you in the NAQP contests, starting July 19, 2025.
Mark K6UFO
NAQP RTTY Contest Manager
Coos County Radio Club