Join us at our new venue!

Redlands Municipal Airport Lobby

for

The PAPA Inland Empire Breakfast!

PAPA will be meeting in person on Saturday July 11, 2026, 9:00 am

at the Redlands Municipal Airport Lobby:

1755 Sessums Dr.
Redlands, CA 92374
(909) 798-7655

Everyone is welcome!

Come on out and meet your on-air friends in person.

Google Maps: Click for directions to Redlands Municipal Airport Lobby

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Ham License Testing @ 8am

We will be offering ham license testing at 8am for Technician, General and Amateur Extra class licenses. Cost is $10 payable by check or cash. Click HERE to reserve your test spot.

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Some Details…

Because there is no food service at the Airport, the PAPA Inland Empire Team will arrange for doughnuts and coffee for starters, and will be open to reasonable suggestions from members for future alternatives.  I am told that there will be a Keurig coffee machine available.  Believing that this will happen, I would suggest that attendees might consider bringing a couple of K cups of their favorite brew along with them, to ensure that they can have the coffee variety that they like.  The Team will provide the doughnuts, some sort of a selection of K cups, disposable coffee cups, creamer, sugar, water bottles, and paper towels.  We will set out a donation jar to offset the costs.

For anyone who is hungry (or thirsty) after the meeting, Hangar 24 Brewery is right across the street!

They have a pretty good menu of pub fare if you’re hungry, and some excellent craft brews made on-site to wash it down with.  If you’re not a beer drinker, don’t worry…they have craft Root Beer, and other soft drinks available.  They open at 11 A.M.  Here’s the food menu.

The Airport Lobby is quite large, and has at least as much usable meeting space as the Mill Creek area that we were assigned to.  There are CLEAN Men’s and Women’s rest rooms.  We will have access to a wall-mounted flat screen TV, which can accept an HDMI cable for connection to a laptop computer (for presentations). The North aspect of the Lobby is all glass, and provides an excellent view of the small aircraft traffic on the runway, which is approximately 50 yards from the Lobby. 

It is interesting to note that the airport management has recently developed an active interest in Amateur Radio.  There have been some recent experiences involving the emergency evacuation of mountain residents, and no timely and effective method to communicate with them.  In a recent incident, it happened that a member of the helicopter evacuation flight crew was a Ham operator, and was able to connect with the evacuees using her HT.  This caused airport management to begin to look into the potential value of adding UHF / VHF phone Amateur Radio capability as a part of their communications suite.  The timing of the PAPA System’s arrival at this facility may prove to be serendipitous.

See you in Redlands!

73 de Paul KN6RED

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Door Prizes!

Our PAPA Partners have agreed to support our Luncheons and Breakfasts with their products for door prizes. One winner will be able to select from five different prizes. The goal is to sell a minimum of $300 worth of tickets to cover the cost of the door prize and help raise funds for PAPA projects.

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PAPA Quick Start Program

In conjunction with our test sessions, PAPA has a “New Technician” gift. Anyone passing the Technician exam at one of our meetings will have the opportunity to participate in the PAPA Quick Start Program.

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