PBARC 2020-2021 in review

Submitted by our club President, Lynn, KN7TAZ, and was presented to the attendees at the annual meeting on 2021-10-16 at Alfred E. Loeb State Park

At this time PBARC has 47 members.

  • Spring SET (Simulated Emergency Test) We had a great showing, we had approximately 18 operators from the
    Brookings area.
  • Azalea Festival Parade We had 15 operators patriating. Thank you Stu for all the hard work being the liaison for PBARC and the Festival Board. From what I can tell this was the 41st year that PBARC has worked with the Parade.
  • Red Cross Activation Exercise We had 5 operators participate in passing traffic from Del Norte County, to Curry County and then to Sacramento. The Red Cross staff were very impressed.
  • We had the pleasure of being included in the 90th Birthday celebration of Virgil, W7VEC..
  • Field Day We had 7 stations set up for Field day this year. We had a great focuses on
    community outreach.
  • We assisted Del Norte with the Crescent City 4th of July Parade. We had 7 operators that participated in support of the Parade. (Many of the active Del Norte Hams were actually on floats this year, leaving the parade shorter than desired for communications help.)
  • Art in the Park We had 15 members participate over the three days of the First Art in the Park at Azalea Park. We had a great focuses on community outreach. We have ran out of outreach material and I have to ordered more.
  • Fall SET (Simulated Emergency Test) We had 14 operators from the Brookings area participate, We met all the goals which were asked ask of us. PBARC had more members and other operators participate than the rest of Curry County combined.
  • We have the Crown Terrace 146.840 repeater on-line. This has been a very long and difficult project to accomplish. If it was not for the generosity of the Members of PBARC this would not be possible. There have been tremendous amounts of donations of Money, Material, Equipment, Time and Skills. This has been a great learning opportunity for so many of our Members. This is a monument that PBARC can and should be proud of.
    We broke ground on the repeater site on September 5th 2020, and the repeater was put on full operation on September 18th , 2021. We still need to do some improvements on the site. We need to equip the site with backup power of some type. The site is set and ready to accept links to the north and south when the time is right. To do this we would need the UHF radios, and associated power supply.
  • We have continually run the PBARC Health and Welfare net daily at noon. In the last 20 months we have had over 3,500 check ins, and we have only missed two days of this net; one when we had a repeater issue, and one when we were all working on the repeater and lost track of time. On October 1st, we moved that to the new Crown Terrace Repeater (146.84). This would not have been possible without our outstanding group of Net Control Operators. Thank you to all Net Control Operators for taking your turns, and to Stu, KE6NCU, for taking on the Net Manager coordination role.
  • In January we started a weekly 10M net every Sunday evening. Through this we helped encourage some club members to upgrade their license class.
  • Congratulations go to many of our members who upgraded this year;
    EXTRA: Sam KJ7RRV, and to Stu, KE6NCU.
    GENERAL: Larry, KF6KAH
    TECHNICIAN: Chad, KJ7WLM, Rachel, KR7RED, Scott, KJ7SUZ, and Josh, KG7OVT
    (Of course, our thanks also go our to our Volunteer Examiners, and VECs.)
  • We would like to thank Jim, K6JR for bringing his DMR repeater online and offering its use to all of us. Christie Lynn, WA6ZDO has also donated a ALLSTAR Node for us to use as well as an IRLP node that she has at her place in Crescent City.
  • There is still more to do, and to learn, in the year ahead!! None of these things would have been possible without the help and participation of our members! Thank you!!