Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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The next OFARC face-to-face meeting is scheduled for October 24th, at the American Red Cross starting at 9:00 am.
Our next meeting is scheduled for October 24th.  We will meet face-to-face at the American Red Cross building, location: 2700 Southwest Fwy.  If you can, make plans to have breakfast before the meeting at the IHOP (nearby at Kirby), 2515 Southwest Fwy, Houston, TX 77098 at 7:30AM.

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


Announcements

  • At the September meeting there were no formal presentations but rather another round of introductions that included 3 testers and 2 newly licensed husband/wife guests.   The meeting minutes can be found here.  Following the meeting, the newbies went up to the radio room for a tour and most all got on the air to make their first QSOs.
  • Included in the minutes is a link to a soldering workstation sold by Digikey that I think a lot of members might be interested in.  It includes virtually everything you'll need for ~$100.  I'm willing to facilate a club-wide order so let me know if you're interested.
  • While looking at the club calendar (seen at the link above), Mark mentioned that there will be a HAMfest in Belton this coming weekend (10/2 and 10/3).  A link to the information can be found here.
  • The membership roster has been updated and is accessible at the 'About Us' link at the top of this page. If you are a member but not listed on the roster, please contact me at this email address and I'll try to fix it.
  • Please note, I've added a link (under Quick Links) to Donald's webpage for all things regarding hurricane preparedness.  Now is the time to prepare...
  • In the interest of encouraging open communications between members and mutual support, a Members Only link has been created (at the 'About Us' link) that contains detailed contact information for current and past members.  The login information has been mailed to all "active" members.  If you did not receive an email, let me know at this address.
  • If you would like to join the club, please bring a completed membership form and dues the the next meeting and you'll be added to our roster and mailing lists.
  • While we have a number of new volunteers (and we do very much appreciate all of you that have stepped up!), we are one operator shy of a full boat.  Do you part to support the club by volunteering to host one or more of our Tuesday night 2m nets.  The script has been relocated to the 'NetCtl' link above that will guide you along with little effort.  If you would like to edit or update the script, please let me know (or maybe you just want to adlib).
  • 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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