GREAT FALLS AREA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB MEETINGS, TESTING and SOCIALS Membership, and attendence at events of the Great Falls Area Amateur Radio Club is open to all persons with an interest in Amateur Radio, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, handicap or sexual preference. Our meetings are handicap accessible, and many of our event locations are also handicap accessible. Please check with a club officer if you will need any special accomodations.

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Please click on links below to get information about each meeting.

Unless otherwise noted, General Meetings,  V.E. Testing,
and Board of Directors  Meetings all start at 7:00pm (local time)

REGULAR MEETING INFORMATION 
Meeting Schedule,   Program,   and   Cookie Monster Listing


NEXT V.E. TESTING SESSION for ALL levels of Amater Radio License:

GFAARC BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING       ( Please Read )
   NOTE:  If you have a GFAARC related regular meeting you would like listed on this page

 WE ALSO INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE FOLLOWING GET TOGETHERS:

SATURDAY MORNING COFFEE SOCIAL - Almost Every Saturday about 9:00am
( Please Read ) 

G.F.A.A.R.C.   REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING  and PROGRAM:  

Meetings are normally held on the FIRST MONDAY of each month, unless that Monday is a holiday.
If the first Monday is a Holiday such as Labor Day or New Year's Day, the the meeting
is moved to the SECOND Monday of the month
Meeting Time: 7:00pm Local
Complete Meeting Dates & Program Schedule

The meeting location is the "conference room" at Westgate Mall.
1800 3rd Avenue Northwest.
Go completely around behind the East end of the mall (the end closest to the refinery)
The meeting room is the first big vacant room on your left. (room 3)
 
 Talk-In on 147.300(+)
  The coffee pot is always on and usually our COOKIE MONSTER will provide Cookies or other Goodies as well.
Feel Free to bring in your own soft-drinks, etc.  (No Alcohol is permitted in the mall)
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  If you would like to have some meeting time to present an item of interest to the group, click here to send an E-Mail to the GFAARC President, so that your item will be added to the MEETING AGENDA.  Use this method also if you want the president to bring up an item to the group (even if you don't have any presentation). 

 

 

JOIN US FOR BREAKFAST - or JUST COFFEE AT THE LOFT
"ALMOST"* EVERY SATURDAY MORNING AT 9:00AM

NOTE OUR NEW LOCATION :  Due to budget cutbacks, our previous breakfast location at the Senior Citizen's Center, will be closed on weekends.  We currently are meeting at "The LOFT" restruant 4800 10th Ave. South.  The LOFT will be moving to it's NEW LOCATION of 4810 2nd Ave. North sometime in June. Check back for new details.

We would like you to join us for Saturday Morning Coffee and/or breakfast at the LOFT Restaurant on SATURDAYS at 9:00am.   There are a wide variety of breakfast menu items you can choose from.  The LOFT upstairs above the OLD BIG R and OLD JOHN DEER Store. Just look for their BIG YELLOW SIGN "THE LOFT".  Until the LOFT moves to it's new location, you'll have to climb a narrow stairway.  There is no elevator. Their NEW location , is on the ground floor, and iwill be handicap accessible.

  

 

 

 

  Finding us will be the easy part... Look for the table populated with hand held rubber duckies in addition to the coffee cups.

TALK-IN will be on 147.300(+)

PLEASE NOTE:    * Certain special events like Field Day, Skywarn Recognition Day, and certain public service events, may reduce or eliminate altogether attendance at this event.  Look for us the following weekend. 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of Directors meetings are normally held on the LAST Monday of the month.  They usually meet at Westgate Mall in the conference room.   The Board of Directors handle the normal business of the club, such as paying of normal monthly expenses (power and phone bills etc.), and other normal business of the club.  This is done so that general meeting time is not wasted having to approve and vote on all normal monthly expenses.  The board also discusses proposals to bring before the general membership for a vote.

NOTE:  The Board of Directors meetings are open to the public, and therefore the general membership of the G.F.A.A.R.C.  Anyone may attend board meetings as observers, or to submit proposals.  Although the Board of Directors appreciates your input, comments and opinions of non-board members may be limited due to time constraints, and should therefore any involved discussions should be saved for the general monthly meeting. 

MEETING SCHEDULE

Please check back often for updates of program and other information

If you would like to have some meeting time to present an item of interest to the group, send an E-Mail to webmaster@w7eca.org , so that your item will be added to the MEETING AGENDA.  Use this method also if you want the president to bring up an item (even if you don't have any presentation).