Club Meeting Information & Location.

The Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association was first formed in 1937, and then incorporated as a California non-profit orginization in March of 1956, and for many years has had the club callsign W6OTX, formerly held by club member and Palo Alto resident (Ramona St.) Wilbur C. Lauridsen, who died while serving in the Navy during WWII.

PAARA meets on the first Friday of every month (with an occasional exception for meeting room conflicts) at the Menlo Park Rec center at Burgess Park.

In addition to the monthly club meetings, PAARA runs a weekly Net and Swap session at 8:30 pm on the N6NFI repeater (145.230, – offset, 100Hz PL), participates in the ARRL’s annual Field Day exercise during the last full weekend each June (in Menlo Park’s Bayfront Park), as well as other occasional activities.

I’m hoping to collect and scan all of the past incarnations of the PAARA logo. If you have any artwork you’re willing to share, please contact Peter, K6WEB, who will be happy to scan and return your item.

PAARA Logo 2005–

Peter Sheerin, K6WEB, slightly revised the logo in 2005 in order to make the lines in the lightning bolt continue through the break at a consistent angle (which required lengthening the bottom of the bolt), make the arcs and text concentric with the circles, and to create various vector artwork versions to make printing it in the newsletter, QSL cards, and other locations easier.

PAARA Logo, used from 2003 (or earlier) until 2005. By 2003, the artwork was available in Adobe Illustrator format