The July OAK FOREST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB face-to-face meeting has been cancelled due to Covid-19 social distancing directives. We've been notified that all public meetings at the TranStar facility are cancelled until further notice. We're planning to hold the 7/25 Zoom video conference starting at 9:00 am. Club members will receive an email invitation to the Zoom meeting in the evening of 7/24. Checkin via the 2m repeater is not required but we'll be monitoring to assist you if you are having trouble starting the Zoom session. Following the normal club business, I will start a presentaion, subject TBD.
To get started with Zoom, download the appropriate application (runs on windows, mac, iphone, ipad and android) starting here. For Linux platforms, start here. I again appeal to Dave (WB5HJV) to schedule the zoom meeting for us. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.
Announcements
- In our June Zoom meeting, we watched a facinating TAPR 2019 presentation by Bill Brown (WB8ELK) entitled "High Altitude Balloon Flights". A link to the video can be found here.
- During our last meeting the VEs conducted a testing session at the American Legion Park. Candidates donning masks, took the exam seated at separate picnic tables with plenty of space between. Here are some photos of the event. Our next exam session is scheduled for 7/22 at 7:00pm at the park. If you are interested in taking a license exam or would like to help out as a VE, please contact Mark at WB5ANN.
- Many of our members participated in Field Day from their homes. Here is a summary of our QSOs. We have until the end of the month to submit our FD logs to ARRL; I suggest that we be very careful with regards to wording/spelling the "affiliate club" in your FD log submissions - QSO log submissions should state our club precisely as "Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club".
- If you have a photo of your ham shack or favorite operating location, please send it on an 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!
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