Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club
WA Non Profit Corporation - 501(c)3
Welcome to GHARC
Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club (GHARC) started in April 1954, is a nonprofit, IRS 501.(c).3 recognized, organization dedicated to Amateur Radio. We promote science, math, education, public service, emergency services and preparedness through HAM Radio use and provide a support network for all levels of Amateur Radio enthusiasts and interested parties. We provide technical support, training, and Volunteer Examiner (VE) for license testing at all levels for Amateur Radio enthusiasts
Latest News for Grays Harbor Amateurs
Tell your friends and neighbors!
The Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club (GHARC) will be holding a license testing event
Who: Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club
When: Thursday February 16th @ 7pm
Where: 1250 Friedlander Drive in Aberdeen
New or upgrade. Walk-ins welcome.
Please bring a $15 testing fee and your FRN. They are required. New licensees will need to pay a $35 fee directly to the FCC to complete their license. Upgrades have no fee for the FCC.
Study material and unlimited practice tests are available online at www.aarg.club and other sites.
For reservations or questions, please phone or text to Lee Schwarz, 425-780-9226, or email to K7LCS@arrl.net
Also, we are looking for ARRL Volunteer Examiners that are available for this session. GHARC membership is not required. Please contact us at 360-777-6655 and fill out the VE Session form
For amateurs in the US and Canada (and their possessions) to work as many amateur stations in as many different 2 degrees x 1 degree Maidenhead grid squares as possible using authorized frequencies above 50 MHz. Stations outside the US & Canada (and their possessions) may only work stations in arrl.org/january-vhf the US (and its possessions) and Canada.
Grays Harbor hams can watch for participants on APRS and listen on 146.520 FM, in our area we have several multi grid square locations.
When: January 21st - 23rd, 2023
Where: To a grid square of your choice
Contest Period: Begins 1900 UTC Saturday, ends 0359 UTC Monday.
Rules: JanJunSep-VHF-Rules.pdf (arrl.org)
KLGX is in our backyard, looks like some service life extension being completed and this site will be off air January 26th through February 2nd
NOAA Weather Radio - Capitol Peak - Outage Update
WXM62 162.475 @ Capitol Peak which covers a majority of Grays Harbor was on this outage list since the December 23rd 2022 ice storm. Looks like it is back in service. Check your weather radios and make sure they have not scanned to another frequency.
National Weather Service - NWR Outages - You can report NWR Transmitter Problems online
GHARC has been working on a new Program that will be member supported and manually and automatically check the Noaa Weather Radios that cover our area. We are also working to have NWR audio be available on the W7ZA System
WXM62 Coverage Map
Photo by Daniel Frank: https://www.pexels.com/photo/dog-on-concrete-road-688835/
This can be related to communication needs in Grays Harbor. Consider your neighborhood and what are options you have available. As local amateurs we have access to all of these and live and work in the community.
GHARC is expanding and linking our W7ZA Net and also beginning to deploy other systems such as GMRS.
We will be adding all three local NOAA Weather Radio, NWR systems to the streaming soon as well as some more local amateur radio
Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club is supporting streaming to Broadcastify
Bob Carter - W7TSS
Bob Carter - W7TSS - Silent Key
It is with sadness that we update all local amateurs on the death of a long-time GHARC Member,
Robert Raymon Carter - W7TSS - Montesano
Bob became a Silent Key on December 18th, 2022 and had been a longstanding member of The Grays Harbor Amateur Radio Club and had a well known collection of tube radios and amplifiers. Bob's call was W7TSS and he was 87 years old at the time of his passing.
Here are two links with more information and with one noting the following service:
Friday January 20th, 2023 @ 11am
St. John's Catholic Church
414 East Broadway Ave
Montesano, WA 98563
https://www.thedailyworld.com/obituaries/robert-raymon-bob-carter/
https://harrisonfamilymortuary.com/book-of-memories/5097726/Carter-Robert/index.php
Why-Not-Chee Bicycle Event
Provided communications support for a bicycle race around Lake Wynoochee, there will be a past event slideshow uploaded in the Events section of the website
There is a slideshow in the Events
Membership Meetings
Early in the year we transitioned to hybrid meetings. We are holding our meetings at the Hoquiam Timberland Regional Library at 1900 on the First Thursday of each month. We are also making these meetings available online, Live using the Google Workspace Meets platform. We purchased some minimal equipment to support these meetings and are working to streamline this.
Committee Meetings
Committees have various meeting schedules and the Organization portion of the website will provide information for each committee and we try to keep the calendar updated with the times for each committee. Several committees meet on Thursdays.
Grays Harbor DART
There will be a past event uploaded describing the Grays Harbor DART mission. We were part of a reginonal event in June 2022
ARRL Field Day 2022
An annual ARRL sponsored event, we will upload a past event for Field Day 2022 with the highlight being the installation and use of a 160m loop antenna
