Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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NOTICE: The OFARC April meeting will be April 27th, at 9:00 am, at the TranStar building.
Our next meeting is scheduled for April 27th.  We'll meet face-to-face at TranStar.  If you can, make plans to have breakfast before the meeting at The Toasted Yolk (Heights location), 4601 Washington Ave, Houston, TX 77007 at 7:30AM.

If you are subscribed, general announcements to club members and fellow subscribers can be directed to the OFARC reflector here.


Announcements

  • Martin reports that the BVARC hamfest sales at the OFARC table were good and we have an extra $351 in donations to show for it!
  • As planned, Roger (K0KON) shared his experiences while preparing for his unDXpedition in 1983.  The presentation and videos can be found at the 'Downloads' tab above.
  • The minutes for the meeting recorded by Ken (KW5KEN) can be found at the 'Meetings' tab at the top of this page.
  • While somewhat sporadic of late, we will continue to support remote attendence and recordings of our meetings via Zoom with announcements going out a few days ahead of each meeting.
  • The VEs reported that all 7 testers passed their license exams at this meeting.
  • We are still looking for voluteer net control operators to host one or more of our Tuesday night 2m nets.  The script prominately posted at the 'Downloads' tab above will guide you along with little effort.
  • Finally, a young scout stumbled upon our webpage and suggested that we provide a link about soldering, something of general interest to all hams and makers: How to solder metal.
  • Contact Mark if you are interested in license exam testing.  Also, see the "Exam Sessions" link above for more information.
  • If you have a photo of your ham shack or favorite operating location, please send it on and I'll post them for all our members see... and comment!!  Please include your callsign in the photo.  Images submitted so far can be found here!
  • If you'd like to be added to our email reflector and share in the dialog between club members and local area hams, send me a request.

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