The club meets for breakfast at 9:30 on the first Saturday of each month, currently at Doc's Marina Grill at the foot of Madison. Spouses, children, newcomers and lapsed hams are welcome. We are reasonably well-behaved and have not yet been ejected by the management.

Kitsap ACS/RACES/ARES conducts a 2m checkin every Sunday evening at 7:30 on their 145.43 repeater. On the first Sunday of each month we segue into a simplex checkin using the Island simplex frequency 147.54.

Events (Top)

Rotary Auction.

The Bainbridge Island Rotary Club conducts what is possibly the largest single-seller garage sale in the world, raising over $300,000 in recent years. You have to see it to believe it. For more information, visit the Rotary site. But for a really great map, you have to come to us.

We are always interested in help from visiting hams. We have duties that involve a lot of walking with HTs, but we also have roles that don't demand any walking. It's typically hot, and dehydration is a concern to hams and the entire crowd. If you're interested, contact us. Volunteers (including the hams) get fed, which is a plus.

Chilly Hilly

In Frebruary of each year we provide communication and logistical aid to the Chilly Hilly bicycle rally, which is conducted by the Cascade Bicycle Club. This event draws 4000 riders or more for a circuit of the island.

We are interested in help from visiting hams on this one, too. This is a highly mobile event, and hams typically need a vehicle and a mobile radio. An HT is not suffiicient due to the island hilly layout.

MSwalk

We expect to do this event in coming years, having just started it. It takes a half dozen hams with either vehicles or on bikes with HTs. They feed us, too.

SETs (Top)

From time to time we have run Simulated Emergency Tests on the island, and we participate in county- and state-wide SETs as well. The software we have used for home-grown SETs is available free.