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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,
Our first ISRA meeting for 2026 is now in the books. We all got together last night (22 Jan) at Idaho Pizza. We had a lot of attendees including a number of new attendees! Apparently, we also signed up a few new members last night as well.
We voted on board members for 2026. This was done at the meeting since everyone was running unopposed with the addition of Norm Sinclair running for Director (for Communications and Outreach). The vote was unanimous so the board for 2026 is as follows:
President – Bart (K7LTC)
Secretary – Dale (KG7KVI)
Treasurer – Alicia (W7YUT)
Director – Norm (W0XAY)
The presentation last night covered ADA County Emergency Communications along with Ham Radio’s potential Role. Dennis Lawson, W7DKL, who works in the office of Ada County Emergency Management, gave the presentation. He covered what their mission is and how they do that mission. He gave examples of past use of the EOC and how Ham Radio played a part in operations. He included a photo tour of the EOC with the radio operator positions as well. All in all, the presentation was excellent. Dennis enjoyed the meeting so much he ended up joining the club as well!
Next month we look forward to a presentation by Jeff Skirde who is a COM-L at NIFC for Wildland Fire. He is going to talk about how he does communications in support of Fire Operations.
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.
Our Weekly Radio Net is doing well. We are still averaging about 22 Check-Ins week to week. If you haven’t checked in and would like to, the Frequency is 146.94 with a PL of 100. We do the net on Sunday night at 7:00 PM.
If you have an idea for future presentation topics or would like to present something yourself, feel free to email K7BSE14694@gmail.com.
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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