Serving the Wood River and Sawtooth Valley
Wood River Amateur Radio club regularly offers testing for Technician and General class licenses.
See Classes page for information on study materials.
Email jpyelda@yahoo.com with your contact information and that you would like to take part in an upcoming test.
Attend one of our classes or you can self study
Purchase the Technician Class Book
Download Technician question pool
Barbecue/fund raiser for the Wood River Amateur Radio Club on Sept 16, Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00pm. We will be raffling off a new 2 meter handheld, ski pass, along with other items(too many to mention) to support the repeater system. If you have something to donate please email me. The event will be held at the Sweetwater Community Center in Woodside. Please RSVP, to jpyelda@yahoo.com ASAP (include your family) so we can plan food and if you can bring a dish,dessert, or drinks please let us know. If you are new to amateur radio and want to learn more,please come. If you have just got your license and have a new radio please bring your radio and we will help you program it. If you are a first responder please come and meet us so you know everyone in the Wood River and Sawtooth Valley. We want everyone on the same page as this would be key in an disaster situation. We will also invite the group in Twin Falls. And if you want to take your test for the tech or general class license we will have a testing group for you.
November 20th test in Ketchum: All six passed their exam. Congratulations.
Here are the new call signs: Mike Elle KF7GAO,Bill Cotee KF7GAR, Leslie Cotee KF7GAN, Drew Dailey KF7GAC,Kelly Murray KF7GAD, Megan Davis KF7GAE,Niels McMahon KF7GAA, Tom Boley KF7GAH, Ryan Yates KF7GAK, Kelly Winnovich KF7FZZ,Francie St. Onge KF7GAT, Logan Kassner KF7GAi, Dave Kassner KF7GAL, Chris Lundy KF7GAJ,Sara Lundy KF7GAB, Steve Linden KF7GAQ, Zach Lat ham KF7GAG, Barb Williams KF7FZY, Mal Prior KF7GAM, Beth English KF7GAP, and Eric Leidecker KF7GAF
Congratulations again.
This last week we licensed 21 new amateur radio operators. This brings to 61 new operators we have licensed this past year alone and we now have a total of 83 amateur radio operators in our group.
The demographics of our group is very interesting. For example we now have 17 women in the group. Quite different from most amateur groups. The majority of our group are in their twenties,thirties,and forties. The diversity is also interesting as we have members from the following;St Luke’s Wood River,Blaine County S/R,Sawtooth S/R,Id trans dept,Sun Valley Ski Patrol,Ketchum police,Sawtooth mountain guides,Ketchum fire,Sun Valley fire,Sun Valley trekking,Wood River fire,Sawtooth avalanche center,US Forest Service,911 dispatch, and a number of back country enthusiasts like myself who like having communication in the backcountry. Really we now have a base of amateur radio operators who can communicate in a disaster.
We have two communication events coming up in 2010. July will be the mountain bike race at Galena lodge called the Galena grinder. August will be the Sawtooth century 100 mile bike ride from Ketchum to Alturas lake and back. We will let you know the details later.
As you may know we have a complete VHF,UHF,and HF station operational at 911 dispatch in the new Public Safety Building in Hailey. We will also have shortly a VHF station at St Luke’s Hospital /Wood River. Add a proposed new VHF station at Elkhorn Fire station in Sun Valley and we have simplex coverage between north and south valley in a disaster situation.
