Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

  Weekly net on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM US Central Time • Local repeater 145.17 MHz (-) PL 123 • Echolink node 5551 on the KA5QDG Repeater - Thanks Wayne!


Amateur Radio Headline News

ARRL
Newsline
Southgate
Ham Radio Daily
Alltop
Ham Radio Update
Ham Weekly Archive

NOTICE: The OFARC October meeting will be October 22nd, at 9:00 am, at TranStar.
The next OAK FOREST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB meeting will be held on Oct 22nd, 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 Sep 24th face-to-face as planned.  Ralph (KE5HDF) hosted the meeting along with ~18 others in attendance plus 2 via Zoom,  We don't have a Zoom or youTube recording of this meeting.  Dom (N5TCB) presented an excellent tutorial on creating Radiograms.  I do not have the slide deck to share.     Ralph also gave a excellent presentation entitled "A Beginners Guide to JOTA" that can be found here.
  • Also recently received was a link to the history of car radio (on the Titlemax web page) that can be found here.
  • 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.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

©2022 Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - Oct. 17th edition. Webhack contact: KG5IRR