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 […]

Welcome to the 1st OK Club Liaison Report This newsletter is being sent out to the OK ARRL club liaisons. Please distribute this info at your club meetings, in club newsletters, and on club nets! Print ‘em, email ‘em, copy and paste ‘em, or post ‘em. A few days after our monthly all Section Manager conference call (third Tuesday night) this report will appear. If you think there is a different person that needs to receive this newsletter, or if you receive doubles, please let me know at n5hzr@arrl.org. OK Spring POTA More details next month, but Oklahoma Spring POTA […]

For those of you that use GridTracker to log to LoTW and are using version 1.22.1204 (very recent issue), please note the following statement in the changelog for the newest version 1.23.0110: GENERAL INFORMATION An oversight in Logbook of the World handling can cause GT to callback to LoTW repeatedly every 1⁄2 second. Please update as soon as possible if you are a LoTW member. CHANGELOG Emergency LoTW fix ———————– Please upgrade immediately at https://gridtracker.org/index.php/downloads/gridtracker/gridtracker-releases/v1-23-0110/files

Don’t forget the HF open house is this weekend! Bring a ham friend to learn about HF!!   HF Open House

The Tulsa County ARES organization will conduct the annual simulated emergency test on Saturday, November 5.  This is a multi-county, multi-mode exercise.  The ICS-205 communications plan is linked below.  The exercise will begin at 0900 local and volunteers will begin by checking in on the resource net, 147.390. We have defined frequencies for: Resource Net.  Tulsa area volunteers check-in on the Resource Net to receive an assignment. Primary Operations (where most voice traffic will be in Tulsa) Winlink Operations and Help Desk. VHF digipeater & gateway for NTS messages via Winlink HF frequencies for NTS messages via Winlink Digital voice […]

Masonic Lodges on the Air (MLotA), an amateur radio special event, will be on the air Saturday, September 24, 2022, from locations across the county. The event is open to all amateur radio operators, and the idea for the event grew out of the realization that many Freemasons also have a love for amateur radio. The Fulton County Amateur Radio Club (FCARC) and the Fulton Lodge #248 in Ohio first hosted the event in 2021. Because of its success, the event has now been scheduled for the next 3 years. The event will be operating K8BXQ from 10:00 AM – […]