Past Meetings
An archive of monthly meeting topics, slides, and videos.
Monthly club meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month at 6:30 PM on Zoom and in-person. To join, register in advance using the links on the home page. Watch recordings on the PARC YouTube channel.
- May 11, 2026 — University-Class Open Ground Station
- March 9, 2026 — PARC AllStar Repeater
- February 9, 2026 — AI in Ham Radio
- January 12, 2026 — ICOM 905
- November 10, 2025 — Solar Cycle 25 — Carl, K9LA
- October 13, 2025 — Portable HF Antennas — George, KJ6VU
- September 8, 2025 — Grounding and Bonding — Ward Silver
- July 14, 2025 — Anderson Power Poles — Max Sabo
- June 9, 2025 — Microwaves — Bob Grange
- May 12, 2025 — MCARES — Deb Provo (KK7DEB), Eliza (W7ELI)
- April 14, 2025 — POTA — Thomas, K4SWL
- March 10, 2025 — DLARC — Kay Savetz
- February 10, 2025 — Go Boxes — Demonstrations
- January 12, 2025 — Satellite Operations — Sean Borgerson
- November 11, 2024 — Deep Space Network — Paolo Belluta
- October 14, 2024 — HF Over-the-Horizon Radar — Walt Zavoli
- September 9, 2024 — VHF/UHF Antennas — Ed Fong
- August 12, 2024 — Node-RED — Brian Stucker
- July 8, 2024 — NanoVNA — Alan Wolke
- June 10, 2024 — SOTA
- May 13, 2024 — Field Day
- April 8, 2024 — Meshtastic
- March 11, 2024 — KiCad
- February 12, 2024 — Amateur Radio Protocol
- January 8, 2024 — DX Marathon
- November 13, 2023 — The Storied History of DX and ARRL Updates
- October 8, 2023 — OMSI USS Blueback Submarine — Bob Cady, Ken Cone
- September 11, 2023 — HamSCI, Solar Eclipses and You — Bill Liles, NQ6Z
- August 14, 2023 — Portable Stations setup at Woodstock Park, Oregon
- May 8, 2023 — Open Source QRP Radio Projects — Scott Baker, KJ7NLA
- April 10, 2023 — Field Day Planning
- March 13, 2023 — Open Headset Interconnect Standard — Mark, N6MTS
- February 13, 2023 — Go-Kit Building: Design Considerations — VE6LK/AI7LK
- November 8, 2021 — Digital Voice Radio
- October 11, 2021 — How to Work Amateur Satellites with Your HT
- September 13, 2021 — An Introduction to N1MM+ Contest Logging Software
- August 9, 2021 — Fox Hunting Basics
- July 12, 2021 — Another Look at Vertical Antennas — Tom Schiller, N6BT
- June 14, 2021 — Let's Design an Antenna Together — Fred Cirera, W6BSD
- May 10, 2021 — PARC 2021 Field Day Planning
- April 12, 2021 — Cycle 25 Update & Space Weather — Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA
- March 8, 2021 — ARRL Update — Mike Ritz, W7VO
- February 8, 2021 — Easy 2 Meter Antenna Build
- January 11, 2021 — PARC Activities & Projects
- December 14, 2020 — Remote Ham Radio — Lee Imber, WW2DX
- November 9, 2020 — Parachute Mobile: Past-Present-Future — Rob Fenn, KC6TYD
- October 12, 2020 — Here Comes Solar Cycle 25 — Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA
- September 14, 2020 — Building and Testing Your Own Magnetic Loop Antenna — G8IPQ & G3XSD
- August 10, 2020 — K9W Wake Island and The Forgotten 98
- July 13, 2020 — Ten-Ten International Net — Randy Mather, AJ7B
- June 8, 2020 — Field Day 2020 Planning (held in Oregon City)
- May 11, 2020 — Everything About Lithium Batteries — Marcel Stieber, AI6MS
- April 13, 2020 — First Zoom online & repeater meeting — Portland NET update, QRP Net, Zoom-to-repeater linking
- July 9, 2018 — Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQ — ARRL NW Division Vice Director
- June 11, 2018 — Mike Ritz, W7VO — ARRL NW Division Director platform + Field Day planning
- May 14, 2018 — Dick Pugh on meteorites (with recovered meteorites to touch!)
- April 9, 2018 — Dick Howard, K7DVK — historical radio and ham gear
- March 12, 2018 — Officer Elections and Field Day Prep
- February 12, 2018 — Jim, KA7AGH — MotoTRBO/DMR digital radio
- January 8, 2018 — Steve Tarr, KD7MRX — FIRST robotics competition
- May 26, 2017 — Roy Lewallen, W7EL — the BALUN
- April 28, 2017 — Upcoming August solar eclipse and related ham experiments
- March 24, 2017 — Bylaws change vote + club officer elections
- February 24, 2017 — Intro to Morse Code — Steve Crouch, NO7V
- August 26, 2016 — Ham radio meets off-roading — Northwest Overland exchange
- July 22, 2016 — Raspberry Pi computers
- May 27, 2016 — Computerized antenna modeling & EZNEC — Roy Lewallen, W7EL
- April 22, 2016 — Anderson PowerPole connectors
- March 21, 2016 — VHF/UHF contesting
- February 26, 2016 — The Emergency Alert System — Kent Randels, K7YXZ
- January 22, 2016 — Digital radio — John White, K7RUN
- November 27, 2015 — Western Oregon Radio Club and KISN LP-FM (95.1 MHz)
- October 23, 2015 — ARRL NW Division update — Bonnie Altus, AB7ZQ
- September 25, 2015 — Amateur radio in the Vernonia floods — Sandy Mikalow, K7OOZ
- August 28, 2015 — Repeater interference and PL tones — John White, K7RUN
- August 15, 2015 — Annual Club Picnic at the Stonehenge Tower (KGON)
- July 24, 2015 — Weather-related VHF propagation — John White, K7RUN
- May 22, 2015 — Roswell Flight Test Crew — Brian Zvaigzne & Patrick Sherman
- April 24, 2015 — Early broadcast and amateur radio history — Dick Howard, K7DVK
- March 27, 2015 — Direction finding / transmitter hunting — Dale Hunt, WB6BYU
- February 27, 2015 — Mountain Wave Emergency Communications — Russ Gubele, K7RLG