PBARC

Club Officers

President ( @pelicanbayarc.com ) Vice President Secretary Treasurer
Lynn Hill
KN7TAZ
Dale Stimson
N7DY
Stu Anderson
KE6NCU
Dave Harris
N6UOW

Our Member-at-Large is Christie Lynn Rust, WA6ZDO. These positions were affirmed by unanimous vote at the PBARC annual meeting, 2021-10-16 at Alfred E. Loeb State Park.

History and Mission

The Pelican Bay Amateur Radio Club was founded in 1980 by a group of Brookings-Harbor amateur radio operators who wished to share their common interest in “HAM” radio. Amateur radio is a hobby of self education and emergency preparedness. It is to our country’s benefit to maintain a reserve of trained radio operators, technicians and electronics experts. Hams stand ready at a moment’s notice to assist whenever normal communications channels are overloaded, damaged or disrupted. Amateur radio is officially recognized as our nation’s backup network during times of emergency, disaster or international distress.

Fun and Friendship

Due to COVID-19, Our regular in-person social and training meetings were on hiatus, but  our nets remained on the air. During the COVID Shelter at Home period, we started holding a Health and Welfare net on the 146.96 repeater (- offset, PL 88.5) at noon. The net shifted to our new 146.84 repeater (- offset, PL 88.5) on 2021-10-01. This Health and Welfare Net at noon is still continuing, as Curry County and Brookings are starting to “reopen”. Since this daily net began, we’ve missed only missed two days, and we’ve had more than 3,500 check-ins on that net before we switched to that new repeater. (One of those missed days was because many of the net control operators were “up on the hill”, working to get the repeater online, and had lost track of the time!)

The annual meeting, election of officers and picnic is held every September. In 2021, we postponed the meeting to October 16, because of the COVID “Delta Surge” in Curry County. We were able to meet this year, and had our picnic and our meeting, and our vote for club officers. It was a beautiful day by the river, and the next day gave us about 2″ of rain!

Community Service

Many club members have assisted with communications for Walkathons, Mud Runs, the Azalea Festival Parade, Jefferson State Coastal Bike Tour, statewide bike-a-thons and other community projects. In 2021, We also had 7 members go to Crescent City on July 4th, to supplement their parade communications, because many of their most active members were on floats in the parade. The two PBARC radio repeaters are for use in emergencies, but are regularly monitored and used as we practice the art of Ham Radio, and to assist visitors to the area.

PBARC By-Laws, as of 7 SEP 2014

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