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Club Freqs.
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Club Repeater
W7AC 147.14 MHz; PL 107.2 Hz
Packet Freqs
W7AT Salem, OR 145.67
W7AC Hillsboro, OR 145.71
KO7N Eugene, OR 145.69
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Links
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Northwest DX Clubs
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Welcome To The Willamette Valley DX Club Website
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The next WVDXC meeting will be held at:
Round Table Pizza
10070 SW Barbur Blvd.
Portland, OR
(503) 245-2211
Next Meeting
Thursday May 31, 2012
Card sort starts at 6:30 PM
Club meeting starts at 7:30 PM
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2012 Pacific Northwest DX Convention
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The 2012 Pacific Northwest DX Convention
Presented by The Willamette Valley DX Club
August 3-5, 2012
Monarch Hotel and Conference Center, Clackamas, OR
Please click here to visit the convention home page. Register before June 15 and receive TWO FREE grand prize tickets!
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Member Profile: Randy Broschat, AB6L
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Congratulations to Randy Broschat, AB6L who was just awarded Honor Roll status with 334/331 Mixed and on CW 328/325. Also on the wall hangs a nice 8 band DXCC certificate.
Randy and Cherie, his wife of 48 years, live in the foothills east of Battle Ground, WA. Their three sons, Steven, Keven and Chris have given them seven grandchildren and not a ham among them. “YET,” says Randy.
Retiring in 2009, virtually Randy’s entire career has been spent in the telecommunications industry, beginning in 1964 with Pacific Tel and Tel, then moving on to open his own radio and phone repair business on Maui in Hawaii. It was back to California to head up a telecom maintenance group for Standard Oil, operating out of the Bay Area and Bakersfield. Twenty years pass, an early retirement from SO and a move to the Pacific northwest to join Time Warner Telecom to help them maintain their Long Haul Fiber System out of Portland.
Randy has been a ham for 53 years and has held a string of call signs. The first was WV6HZB. “It was 1959,” Randy tells us, “and Doug, K6KEV (now SK), the father of my first girlfriend who got me started in ham radio. He lived in Menlo Park, CA and had mobile rig set up in the front seat of a 1957 Chevy station wagon. I remember heading out to a ham picnic and talking, for the very first time, on that vacuum tube radio. I was hooked.”
A year went by and he became WA6HZB, then in Hawaii it was KH6IQL then KH6L in 1979. His current call, AB6L, was issued in 1996. Randy has been an Extra Class Amateur since 1972.
Primarily a CW operator, Randy is becoming involved with RTTY. And he says he has no band preference, he likes all the HF bands with one of his projects for this year, a 160 meter antenna.
In the equipment area, for CW it’s a Yaesu FT1000D; for SSB and RTTY a Yaesu 1000MP. Two amps: a Quadra and an Ameritron 800H. He uses a Kenwood TS 570S for 6 meters.
Antennas equal a Cushcraft C3 tribander and two Radioworks Loops, one for 40, the other for 80 meters. He has a 75 meter dipole.
In addition to his yearlong membership in the WVDXC, Randy belongs to the Clark County ARC.
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