Oak Forest Amateur Radio Club - KE5TRB
Houston, Texas

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NOTICE: The OFARC Christmas luncheon will be December 11th, at 2:30 pm, at the Spaghetti Western Restaurant, Shepherd Location.
There is no meeeting in the month of December. Instead, we enjoy good eats at the Christmas luncheon held 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 Nov 19th face-to-face as planned.  Ralph (KE5HDF) hosted the meeting along with ~16 others in attendance; 1 attended by Zoom,  A youTube recording of this meeting can be found here.
  • We enjoyed presentations about setting up a stealth antennas (Stephen) and rechargeable batteries (Barry); (see the slide deck at the Downloads link).  Dom gave us a teaser on a future presentation about WinLink.
  • Officer elections are coming up in January so give some thought to serving the club as an officer or nominating a good candidate.
  • Stephen is organizing the Winter Field Day event to be held at Stephen F. Austin State Park.  Field Day coincides with the 4th Saturday and we may be holding the monthly meeting from the park.  Stay tuned for details
  • Mark your calendars for the upcoming Greater Houston Hamfest, March 3rd and 4th.  More information can be found here.
  • Contact Mark if you are interested in License exam testing, not sure if we will have testing in January.  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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