In case you missed it… At the April meeting of the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club, Paul WB5ANX gave his presentation on ARES / Bike Rides / Community Events and how to be prepared for each of them. Also, Ky Vargas KY5VAR recently made the trek out to Little Sahara State Park for a POTA activation, and he had a slide show and presenta-tion for the club. Meeting attendance in April was 35. It’s that time of year… This past weekend was the first VHF/UHF University attended by 27 hams looking for information on “How not to be a LID, the […]
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Net Checkins 5.1.23
1 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 2 KC9THI Tulsa IAN 3 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 4 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 5 K5NBA Broken Arrow CHUCK 6 KI5VAG TULSA CARL 7 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 8 KJ5AND Glenpool RUSTY 9 KI5YWF Oklahoma City DON 10 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 11 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 12 KI5ZDE Tulsa CHRIS 13 KI5TAZ Claremore JACOB 14 KI5YSY Muskogee EASTON 15 N5NJB MUSKOGEE NATHAN 16 KI5ZRY Sapulpa MARK 17 KA5RAB Warr Acres ROGER 18 KI5TKD Choctaw JOHN 19 KJ5AGS Edmond MATT 20 KF6OPP EDMOND DIRK 21 AE5MT Chandler BRIAN 22 WA5TRM Tulsa STORM 23 KD5UTW MOUNDS KEVIN 24 KB5VDB BROKEN ARROW […]
QRU — Ham “Etymology” and the LICW Club ― W5AWS
The excerpt from the December 14, 1895, edition of The Radio Telegrapher came my way via Long Island CW (LICW) Club member David, N1EA. It explains the origin of the once derogatory term Ham as applied to unskilled telegraph operators. View the whole pdf
End Fed Long Wire Antenna
By: W5AWS Motivation From the point of view of efficiency, tuning an antenna to resonance at the fre-quency of transmission makes sense in that it ensures maximum transfer of power, which is all well and good until we QSY to another frequency, forcing a need to re-tune or acceptance of the impedance mismatch and reflected power in the feed-line. An End-Fed Half-Wave (EFHW) is an antenna that is a half-wavelength at the lowest frequency of operation, making the odd and even harmonics of the fundamental frequency available across the bands for which it is designed to work; even so, an […]
TARC Meeting Minutes April 2023
On Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 1900 hours local, Mark, WA5MA, called to order the meeting of the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club in Room-3140 of Keplinger Hall at the University of Tulsa. WA5MA welcomed new attendees and those who are working to get their Technician license. WA5MA introduced the club officers present then requested round-robin introductions of the company. WA5MA yielded the floor to Bart, N5TWB, who couldn’t stay for his scheduled time on the agenda. N5TWB is the Public Service Liaison, who said that we were approached by the organizers of the “Black Wall Street Ride to Remember” bicycle […]
Net Check Ins – 4.11.23
1 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 2 KY5VAR Broken Arrow KY 3 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 4 N5LOL TULSA BRENT 5 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 6 W5IAS Tulsa STEVE 7 WA5MA Bixby MARK 8 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 9 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 10 K5JKP Broken Arrow DEREK 11 KC0LRM Tulsa DANA 12 AC5JM Bartlesville JERRY 13 KJ5AND Glenpool RUSTY 14 AG5SL McAlester JAMES 15 KI5YWF Oklahoma City DON 16 KI5YX Coweta MIKE 17 N9JPH McAlester JASON 18 KA6DOY MANNFORD REMELL 19 KC5SFE OKLAHOMA CITY DIRK 20 KF6OPP EDMOND Dirk E Dewachter 21 KG5CTY Sapulpa PAT 22 WA5TRM Tulsa STORM 23 KI5ZWB Tahlequah GABE 24 […]
CW for the Hearing Impaired
A Handheld Vibrational Device Delivering CW to Hearing-Impaired Individuals There are many students in our club over the age of 50 that have various hearing impairments. Through the hard and dedicated work of an LICW committee which made an initial haptic prototype, then improved by Bob WO6W, we now have a patent pending effective vibrational CW decoding device. This device is now being made available to LICW membership and the public. This will also be an interesting aid for those with good hearing because feeling the code creates alternate white matter pathways to the mind which can aid in one’s […]
THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER – April 2023
In case you missed it The President of the United States has the State of the Union address, the Governor has the State of the State address and I gave a State of the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club address at the March meeting on the 21st. Well maybe not quite as formal, but I’ve been President of TARC for just over 2 years now and I think it’s important that you know just how far the club has come in those 2 years (there’s a list as long as my arm). Here are the activities that the club is currently […]
Field Day Input
The 2023 Field Day planning is underway… But before we get too far down the road, we want your input… Take a moment to let us know what you want to see at this years field day so we can make sure to incorporate it and make it even better than last year!