New Booth at UC Fair coming along
Members of W7GRA started work on our new booth at the Union County Fair. We removed the old step, built a desk and a ramp to get up into the…
Yaesu Wires-X 2.0 Upgrade
Just an FYI to those that use Wire-X option on repeaters or if you use the personal digial nodes, Yaesu has repleased a software upgrade moving software from v1.57 to…
FCC Requires Cores updates within 10 days of FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days of a Change
FCC now has a requirement that if your contact information changes, you have 10 business days to visit their system to get it updated. Not doing so could result in…
Test Session Dates Announced
Good morning everyone, The Grande Ronde Radio Amateurs have announced this years test session dates. Like the last few years, we have will have test sessions before our in person…
Club Dues are now due
It is a new year and club dues are now due. $20 per year and if you are a household of Hams, it is still just $20. If you don’t…
January 2026 Excerpt of the Pickle Barrel Review
The Pickle Barrel Review is a newsletter put out by our friends and neighbors on the other side of the mountain, The Weston Mountain Digital Radio Association. They are relatively…
W7GRA Repeater Update
2/8/2026 I was finally able to find some time to go up to the Grande Ronde Hospital over the weekend and get the Wires-X node going again. I’m still trying…
Meshtastic in the Grande Ronde Valley
Several hams and non ham have been setting up Meshtastic Nodes throughout the valley. I’ll update this with more to come
60 meter band has changed, so has the question pools
Issued February 4, 2026 by the NCVEC , some questions to the General Class and Extra Class Question Pools have been removed. Why are they being removed? Well ham radio…