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-L Repeater - Thanks Wayne(SK) :-(


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NOTICE: The next OFARC face-to-face meeting will be held on July 26th, at the American Red Cross starting at 9:00 am.
Our next meeting is scheduled for July 26th.  We will meet face-to-face at the American Red Cross building, location: 2700 Southwest Fwy.  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.

If you are subscribed, general announcements to club members and fellow subscribers can be directed to the OFARC reflector here.


Announcements

  • The minutes from our last meeting (June 28th) are located at the 'Meetings' link at the top of the this page.
  • The 2025 club calendar and 2m net control operator schedule can be found at the 'Events' link at the top of this page.
  • Many of us and members of the ECHO Society club met in the radio room for the FD25 event.  There were several guests and the room got crowded.  At one point I counted 15 people in that small room.  We made many contacts via phone and FT8.  This year we arranged to send numerous radiograms, that carry a big points bonus.  By Mark's measure, any year we don't rank last in the points was a successful FieldDay!
  • If you've not already done so, please renew your club membership at our next meeting.  For new members, it's half price for the remainder of the year.  Please fill out our membership form found here to help us maintain our records.
  • While we have a number of new volunteers (and we do very much appreciate you that have stepped up!), we are still looking for more volunteer net control operators to host one or more of our Tuesday night 2m nets.  Make it your goal to do your part for at least one session this year!  The script prominately posted at the 'Downloads' tab above will guide you along with little effort.  If you would like to edit or update the script, please let me know.
  • 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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