Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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NOTICE: The OFARC March meeting will be March 26th, at 9:00 am, at TranStar.
The next OAK FOREST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB meeting will be held on Mar. 26th, 2022.  We'll meet face-to-face in the TranStar conference room and on Zoom.  A Zoom invitation will be sent out to members 2 or 3 days before in the usual way.  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.  Don't forget to catch up on annual club dues, if you've not done so already.  You can send checks or cash to the club mailing address (see the Club Membership link above) or pay up at your next face-to-face meeting.


Announcements

  • Our last meeting was held on Febuary, 19th via Zoom as planned.  Stephen (W2WF) hosted the meeting along with 16 others in attendance.  The primary topic of our the meeting was election of officers.  Ralph (KE5HDF) was elected president for 2022.  Jeremy (KG5PYY) will serve another term as VP.  Mark (WB8ANN) will continue as Secretary, Treasurer, and VE Admin.  We also watched Orlando Hamcation videos, mostly concerning commercial antennas.  Stephen presented a progess report on his goal to learn morse code with help from the Long Island CW club.  Keep up the good work, Stephen!  All is available for you to watch on our youTube channel here.
  • On deck for the March meeting is:
    • FieldDay (June 25-26th) planning
    • Bandpass Filter deconstruction
    • HamSci presentation on propagation studies
    • Discussion on possibilites for future discussion topics/projects
    • If you have something else to present, we can probably squeeze you in :-)
  • 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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