March 6, 2025 Club Meeting

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The RVARC club meeting will be held Thursday, March 6th at 7:00 PM at the Jackson County Library Phoenix location, 510 W 1st St., Phoenix, Oregon. Our speaker will be Luke Bryan, KJ7BKH, who will present on Repeater, software, and his Repeater Start application.

This meeting or event is not sponsored nor endorsed by the Library.

Note: that the exam times & locations have changed. Please consult the Exams page for details.

Announced in the March 2025 issue of The Repeater.

Meeting Notes

From the April 2025 issue of The Repeater.

March 6, 2025 RVARC Meeting Minutes

20 attendees

6:51pm Vice President Allan Taylor called meeting to order.

Treasurer’s report: $5736.59 bank balance + $30 cash from dues

The license test equipment advance has been paid off from the most recent test fees. Two of the younger test-takers that passed were 9- and 12-years old.

There will be another exam on March 15 at the 940 Summit Ave location.

Field Day will be June 28-29 at Lud Sibley’s place in Sams Valley.

7:07pm break for coffee, snacks, and visiting.

7:26pm Presentation by Luke Bryan, KJ7BKH on his multi-platform repeater mapping application. It shows repeater locations and parameters on an interactive map, and gives step-by-step setup information for a variety of handhelds. See https://hearham.com for more information.

From the website: Repeater-START, the offline repeater listing app is for iOS/Android, Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, Librem Phone.

7:53pm end presentation

7:55pm meeting adjourned

Submitted John, KF7UMK. Secretary