Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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NOTICE: The OFARC October Meeting will be on November 20th, at 9:00 am.

The next OAK FOREST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB meeting will be held on Nov. 20th, 2021.  We will now meet at The Toasted Yolk (Heights location), 4601 Washington Ave, Houston, TX 77007 for breakfast at 7:45AM, followed by the meeting at the Houston TranStar Building (west entrance) starting 9:00AM.  We are limited to 29 attendees, will be required to mask up and get temperature-screened at the door.  We have been successful in holding hybrid meetings in the conference center to link up with remote Zoom participants.  A Zoom invitation will be sent out the days before in the usual way.


Announcements

  • Our last face-to-face meeting was held on October, 23rd at the TranStar facility as planned.  Stephen (W2WF) hosted the in-person meeting along with Zoom attendees.  The meeting was video recorded and it can be viewed on our youTube channel (see the Meetings link at the top of this page).  Many thanks to Stephen and Jeremy for the video production!  You can find the video about the Marconi Museum and Signal Hill at the YouTubes link above.  Scroll down to the "TX Factor" link and search for Episode 1
  • The primary topic of our next meeting will be bandpass filters, construction and theory.
  • License exam testing has resumed at TranStar in conjunction with our monthly meetings starting at at 9:30am.  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!

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