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Solar Alert Update – Geomagnetic Storm upgraded to G5

UPDATE 5/11/24 — Late Friday afternoon, 5/10/24, the NWS Portland (National Westher Service) relayed the following NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) announcement, upgrading the…

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Multnomah County Ultra Marathons

Courtesy of Deb KK7DEB, Multnomah County ARES, and Alan N7YAF: Greetings radio enthusiasts and seekers of adventure Multnomah County ARES has “adopted” three ultra marathons…

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OR-wide Spring SET – Saturday, May 18

Posted at the request of CARES EC Stephen Jensen KE7GXC Attached is the op-order for CARES participation in the Oregon statewide Spring Simulated Emergency Test…

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Yellow Plan “2m and 70cm.csv” rev

As of 4/26/2024, the ICS-217A YELLOW plan files used for CHIRP programming (“2m_and-70cm.csv” and “all_bands,zip”) have been updated, to address an issue identified by Andrew…

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CARES ICS-217A “YELLOW” Plan Ready

The CARES ICS-217A 2024 “YELLOW” Frequency Plan has been released. A .pdf chart of the 2M & 70CM channels, and .csv files for ‘CHIRP’ radio…

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