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Our purpose is to advance the radio art and skills, help club members and others, and have fun doing it. 

We meet weekly on our 2 meter net, and monthly in person at our club meetings. Feel free to participate.

Club Update: 

Greetings,

Greetings,
Thanks to all who attended last night’s club meeting (Feb 26, 2026). Our speaker was Jeff Skirde from the Forest Service. Jeff is a Communications Lead in the Wildland Fire area and has supported many fires around the US and even Canada in the past with communications support. He talked to us about how he became a COM-L and delved into the details of Wildfire communications planning. He shared a copy of one communications plan from a fire last year and showed us actual equipment used for repeaters and communications support. Jeff shared the challenges he faces when responding to a wildfire and what it takes to get communications up and running. He also shared that if communications are down, fire support stops, highlighting the criticality of radio communications in 2026.

Overall it was a good meeting and I look forward to seeing folks again in March. I am working on a presentation for March regarding GMRS and am working to bring a speaker in to talk about GMRS and community support as it’s being used in Garden Valley..

Reminder, we now have club patches!  If you want a club patch, see Alicia at the next meeting.  Here is  photo.  It has an iron-on backing.  Price is $8 each.  

Again a Reminder: we have a weekly ISRA Club Radio Net on Sunday nights at 7:00 PM.  All are welcome to check in.  The ISRA Repeater is 146.94 with a PL of 100.  We look forward to hearing you on the air!

73,   Bart

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