The Club's Next
Monthly Breakfast
"Hams & Eggs"
is scheduled for
July 25th, 2009

Links

Awards

Many thanks to Dan-AF7O (left above) for organizing this year's Field Day event!

NEXT CLUB MEETING:  July 9th, 2009 at 7 PM

Club Meetings:  The Federal Way Amateur Radio Club meets on the Second Thursday of the month at the Federal Way Church of Christ's Teen Center at 7pm.  The Teen Center is located at 29904 Military Road South in Federal Way.  All are welcome to attend, even if not a licensed ham.

At our upcoming club meeting...  Our guest speaker for our July 9th club meeting is going to be Frank McJunkins with the US Coast Guard Auxiliary.  Frank will be talk about what the Coast Guard auxiliary is all about and what communications projects they are working on in the area.

At our last club meeting...  Our guest speaker at our June 11th club meeting was Ron Zuber of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).  Ron is a disaster operations specialist and is in charge of HF radio operations for Region 10, which serves Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and headquartered out of Bothell, WA.  Ron gave an overview of FEMA's responsibilities and highlighted their HF radio equipment resources, and some of the upcoming upgrades that will be made in the near future.  Prior to his employment at FEMA, Ron worked at the King County Emergency Coordination Center in Renton.

List of our Past Guest Speakers: Click here.

Map to the club's meeting place: Click here.
 

PARTICIPATION HIGH AT FEDERAL WAY FIELD DAY!

After a good breakfast with the club's monthly breakfast - Hams & Eggs at Old Country Buffet, FWARC club members descended upon the area near the Steel Lake Park Annex horseshoe pits to set up antennas, connect coaxial cables to radios, and sprayed RF into the ionosphere in attempts to make as many contacts as possible during Field Day weekend of June 27th-28th.  Despite low sunspot numbers making it a challenge to complete the required information exchange between the two stations, folks seemed to have had a great time setting things up, twirling the radio dial, and making the call in attempts to pull in distant contacts.  Later in the early evening, field day goers took a break to enjoy some great food with our potluck dinner.  Will we see YOU at Field Day next year?

FEDERAL WAY D-STAR STATUS WEB PAGE

The Federal Way Amateur Radio Club's D-STAR repeaters are now featured on the DSTARGATEWAY.ORG's web site.  The URL is http://wa7fw.dstargateway.org. For additional information on all of the club's repeaters, please visit our repeater page.

http://fwarc.org/repeaters/

Whew!

CONTENT WANTED

We are always looking for something to post on the club's web site.  If you have something you would like posted, please pass the information along to our web master, Mike-N7VWD.

Mike McCoy-N7VWD
206-255-9891 Cell
253-661-6673 Home
E-Mail: webmaster(at)fwarc.org

 Thursday, July 02, 2009
 

Federal Way Amateur Radio Club
P.O. Box 23415
Federal Way, WA  98093
moreinfo(at)fwarc.org
 

Join the FWARC, or Renew Your Club Membership Here
 

Federal Way ARC
Repeaters
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147.040 +
146.760 -
442.950 +

All three repeaters require
a PL tone of 103.5 Hz.

The Radio Club meets on
the 147.040 + repeater each
Sunday evening at 7:30 PM.  Feel free to check into our
weekly net.

FWARC D-Star Repeaters
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443.850+ WA7FW-B
146.840- WA7FW-C

(Click here for more details
on the club's repeaters.)
 

Upcoming Events

Sunday Nights at 7:30PM
The radio club meets on the air on the 147.040 + repeater for a weekly check-in net. Feel free to join in.

1st Thursday of the Month
The area's D-Star Users Groups meets. Location to be determined.

2nd Thursday of the Month
The radio club holds their monthly club meetings at the Federal Way Church of Christ's Teen Center. Board of Trustee's meeting is at 6PM, and general membership meeting
starts at 7PM.
Everyone is welcome!

3rd Thursday of the Month
The Club's Emergency Communications Response Team (ECRT) meets at 7PM at the South King Fire & Rescue Station 62.
All are welcome to attend.

4th Saturday of the Month
Our monthly breakfast, Hams' & Eggs. Come join us for a good breakfast, and eyeball-to-eyeball QSO's at 8:30AM at the Old Country Buffet behind the Billy McHale's Restaurant.
You guessed it, All are welcome!

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UPCOMING EVENTS
IN 2009

July 11th
SalmonCon - Pacific Northwest QRP Group Annual Outing to Bowman Bay Campground Deception Pass State Park

July 11th
Chehalis Valley ARS Hamfair at the Lewis County Fairgrounds

July 25th
Multi-Club ham Radio Swap meet sponsored by the North Kitsap ARC being held at the Rodeo Drive-In near the Bremerton Airport.

August 7th - 9th
Pacific Northwest DX Convention at the Mirabeau Park Hotel in Spokane, WA

August
Radio Club of Tacoma Hamfest in Spanaway, WA

August 16th
Puget Sound Antique Radio Association's Antique Radio Swap Meet in Shoreline, WA

August 22nd
Northwest Citizen Corps Expo 2009 at the (Washington) State Fire Training Academy in North Bend, WA

August 29th
EOC-to-EOC Drill

September
Northwest APRS Summer Gathering in North Bend, WA

October 9th - 11th
Pacific Northwest VHF Society Annual Conference in Seaside, OR

October 31st
EOC-to-EOC Drill

November 1st
Time change to
Pacific Standard Time