Upcoming Events

Monthly Board Meeting

The board meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm. Meetings are held via internet video link. If members wish to attend, please contact a board member listed on the Contact Us page for the internet video link information.

Monthly General Meetings

We now hold hybrid (in person and via internet video) club meetings on the FIRST Thursday of each month at 7 pm at the Yamhill County Auditorium, 2050 NE Lafayette Ave., McMinnville, Oregon.

If you are not a member but would like to attend just show up and have a seat. You are always welcome.

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Past Events

2025 Field Day/Summer Picnic Information

Field day for 2025 will be held June 27-29 at Beulah City park in Yamhill, Oregon. Several HF antennas will be run through the trees on Friday. Contacts will start at noon on Saturday for both voice and digital. The club summer picnic will be Saturday evening.

2024 Christmas Luncheon information

The no-host Christmas luncheon was held Saturday December 14th at Mazatlan in McMinnville. Everyone enjoyed good food and conversation along with a White Elephant gift exchange. This year was a surprisingly wide variety of gifts and only a couple of them were "stolen". One person received the same gift they had stolen from them last year - They were happy to finally get that gift again. --- We will not be having an in person meeting. The next monthly in-person meeting will be The regular January meeting.

2024 Field Day/Summer Picnic Information

Field day for 2024 was held June 21-23 at Beulah City park in Yamhill, Oregon. Several HF antennas were run through the trees on Friday. We made more contacts this year than last year, both voice and digital. The club summer picnic Saturday evening was well attended. McMinnville Water and Light brought out their emergency trailer to show and allowed us to test their equipment as a GOTA trailer.

2023 Christmas Party information

The Christmas luncheon was held on Sunday December 10th at La Sierra in Dundee. We had a great turnout. We enjoyed lots of good food and conversation along with a white elephant gift exchange.

2023 Field Day Information

Field day for 2023 was held June 23-25 at Beulah City park in Yamhill, Oregon. We had several club members attend both days. Lots of contacts were made all over the U.S.

2022 Christmas Party information

The Christmas luncheon was held on Saturday December 10th at the Black Bear Diner in Newberg. We had a good turnout. There was lots of good food and conversation along with a gift exchange. We thank Millie, W7MIP, for providing place setting treat bags.

2022 Spruce Goose 75th Anniversary Special Event Station

The McMinnville Amateur Radio Club, in conjunction with the Hughes Amateur Radio Club, held Special Event Stations to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the the first flight of the Hughes Aircraft Company's prototype Hercules H-4 Flying Boat, commonly known as the Spruce Goose.

The Amateur Radio Clubs from both locations operated special event stations Oct 29th through Nov 5th. The McMinnville Amateur Radio Clubs call sign was W7RXJ and the Hughes Amateur Radio Clubs call sign was W6HA.