Bring your HTs to the June RRRA Meeting and get help programing your radio with the latest set of frequencies for the area .If you have a programing cable, you’re encouraged to bring that also, but we’ll have a supply of cables available for use.

There will also be a demonstration of I Am Responding, our pager system for ARES.

A friend of mine asked recently if perhaps our angst over ARRL was misguided. There is a segment of hams that will hate the ARRL for any reason, often stupid, irrelevant reasons. I still encounter people who are angry about incentive licensing or claim the ARRL is against CW despite running daily CW bulletins. Naturally we should be angry over nefarious activities like canning directors for questionable conflict of interest claims or running shadow boards, but perhaps the decline of ARRL and its membership numbers is just due to the overall decline in the number of people interested in participating in organizations, and out of their control. We see it everywhere, from churches, to fraternal community organizations, to ham clubs with many withering away due to lack of interest.

The May 2025 ARES Meeting will be dedicated to starting the process of reissuing the Salamander IDs held by RRRAES members and to updating I am Responding (IAR) user information.

There will be a lot to do at this meeting so please arrive as early as possible. The West Fargo FDHQ doors will be open for us at 1815 hours (6:15 PM CDT).

Whether you are antenna restricted and need something that blends in, or just want to get started building your own antennas, you will find great antenna ideas that you can build yourself inexpensively at the April RRRA Meeting.

Learn how you can choose and deploy a better performing and more appropriate antenna to meet your operating goals during K8ZT’s 10 Worst Antennas for Amateur Radio & How You Can Do Better! presentation at the March RRRA Meeting.