PNWVHFS News

The society continues to grow.  Our newest addition is K7MET in DN07.

Newletter editor W7DHC has put together yet another great issue of the society newsletter “The Noise Floor” and the Winter 2008 edition is now available!

This issue is packed with news from the Moses Lake conference and much more!

Art Moe, KB7WW has become a silent key on or about 09 November 2008.

Art was quite active on the VHF bands, especially on 6M.  He was also PNWVHFS Director for Oregon from 2002 - 2004.  He had been in declining health for several years.

The society extends its condolences to Art’s family and friends.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

We are happy to announce the addition of a Coppermine photo gallery to the PNWVHFS website!  This was yet another feature we really didn’t have available to us on our old domain host (they had a photo gallery but, well, the way they had it set up was VERY user unfriendly).

N7CFO and W7DHC have uploaded about 55 photos from the 2008 conference and I have added in all the front page photos used on the main site for the past many years as well.  We’ll be adding to the collection over time and hope to go back and drop in photos from past conferences as time allows.

I am still fighting a permissions issue that keeps me from being able to open the floodgates for photos. But once I get that solved I can start giving out “uploader” accounts to folks on an as needed/requested basis.

Go to www.pnwvhfs.org/gallery to peruse the photos or follow the link from the photo gallery tab on the main site.

Are you shown on the PNWVHFS Member Map yet?

Please insert your callsign as your name (or part of your name field anyway) and list the bands you have in the Message field.  You can also load jpg photos to use as your icon.

PNWVHFS welcomes three more new members!  Welcome aboard folks!

The society welcomes our newest members:

A new slate of PNWVHFS officers take their seats on 01 November 2008.

Terry Dobler, W7AMI, Idaho Director
Frank Bechdoldt, K3UHF, Oregon Director
Jessie Oberreuter, KB7PSG, Secretary/Treasurer

Stepping down are:

Bob Hallock, K7TM, Idaho Director (2001 - 2008)
Jim Garver, K7YO, Oregon Director (2005 - 2008)
Steve Pack, WB7VAS, Secretary (2008)

The society expresses it’s gratitude for those who stepped forward to fill these important positions and also wishes to give its most sincere thanks to those gentlemen who served the society so well in the past.

It is worth special mention that K7TM was the last of the original Board of Directors to step aside.  Thanks Bob!

We have a whole pile of new members to welcome to the society!  But no, we didn’t get to 400…yet!

K7AWB came up with the idea for a membership drive to push the society membership to 400 members (including SKs) by the conference.

The applications have been rolling in but we still have a long way to go.  If you haven’t joined yet and want to help push the number skyward the membership application is here.

And sorry, we cannot accomodate “vanity membership number” requests.