Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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NOTICE: The OFARC November meeting will be November 19th, at 9:00 am, at TranStar.
The next OAK FOREST AMATEUR RADIO CLUB meeting will be held on Nov 19th, 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.

Also, SAVE THE DATE: We'll be having our annual Christmas luncheon celebration at the Spaghetti Western Restaurant (1608 Shepherd Dr.) on Sunday, December 11th at 2:30pm.  RSVP with Ralph if you are planning to attend.  Guests are welcome!


Announcements

  • Our last meeting was held on Oct 22nd face-to-face as planned.  Ralph (KE5HDF) hosted the meeting along with ~16 others in attendance, none by Zoom,  A youTube recording of this meeting can be found here.
  • Ralph kicked off a discussion of activities planned for 2023, first up will be winter FieldDay, organized by Stephen.  An excellent youTube presentation on soldering was shown 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.

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