On Tuesday, 21 February 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 asked whether anyone doesn’t receive the newsletter. WA5MA asked for any questions or comments about the minutes of last month’s meeting. Nothing heard. Ian, KC9THI, moved to approve the minutes as written; Paul, KE5EHM, seconded; the minutes were approved by […]
Net Logger Presentation
Miss the club meeting, here is a link to the net logger presentation by Andrew, W5AWS. NetLogger-TARC-20230221
Oklahoma ARRL Club Liaison Report – March 2023
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 […]
Net Checkins 2.14.23
1 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 2 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 3 KY5VAR Broken Arrow KY 4 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 5 N5LOL TULSA BRENT 6 WA5MA Bixby MARK 7 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 8 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 9 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 10 KF5VCQ Sand Springs STEVE 11 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 12 AA5AS Bixby RANDY 13 KI5UEX Miami DENNIS 14 KI5YX Coweta MIKE 15 N9JPH McAlester JASON 16 AG5SL McAlester JAMES 17 KA6DOY MANNFORD REMELL 18 KI5YWF Oklahoma City DON 19 KG5YBK Bethany SHANE 20 W5CAE Sand Springs CHRIS 21 KN6QCJ S LAKE TAHOE ZACH 22 KI5URM Owasso BRIAN 23 WA5TRM Tulsa STORM 24 […]
HF University Pt 2
This Saturday, February 18th, the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club will be hosting HF University Part 2! If you missed the first session in the fall, you can still participate in the event on Saturday. Topics include: HF Etiquette and Operating Procedures (8 – 9 AM) Propagation (9 – 10 AM) The Ins-and-Outs of POTA Website and Registration (10 – 11 AM) Grounding Your Station (11 AM – 12 PM) ICOM 7300 Deep Dive (1 PM – 2 PM) The day will conclude with an open forum of Elmers. So, come prepared with any and all of your HF questions! Seminars […]
Buddipole Versatee Tripod Adapter
by W5AWS Needing a portable antenna, I decided to try the Buddistick system from Buddipole (https://www.buddipole.com/). It works well, but since I operate portably rather than at the end of a long portage, I wanted to use a photographic tripod in conjunc-tion with a Versatee to give me a little more flexibility in configuration. View the PDF Here
THE PRESIDENT’S CORNER – February 2023
President – Mark Adams, WA5MA (Returning) 1st Vice President – Jack Conway, W5JHC (Returning) 2nd Vice President – Ian Duncan, KC9THI (New) Secretary – Andrew Shead, W5AWS (Returning) Treasurer – Jerry Weikel, KE5PMK (Returning) Public Service Liaison – Bart Pickens, N5TWB (Returning) Callsign Trustee – Gregg Wonderly, W5GGW (Returning) Newsletter Editor – Richie Shroff, W5OKL (Returning) ARES Emergency Coordinator, Tulsa County – Paul Teel, WB5ANX (Returning) In case you missed it… Winter Field Day Was quite the success! Even with the cool temperatures and gusty winds there was a good turnout. Steve KF5VCQ brought out the TARC Comm 1 trailer […]
TARC Net Checkins 1.31.23
1 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 2 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 3 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 4 WA5MA Bixby MARK 5 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 6 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 7 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 8 KF5VCQ Sand Springs STEVE 9 KI5ZDE Tulsa CHRIS 10 KI5YX Coweta MICHAEL 11 N5NJB MUSKOGEE NATHAN 12 KI5YSY Muskogee EASTON 13 N9JPH McAlester JASON 14 KA6DOY MANNFORD REMELL 15 KF6OPP EDMOND DIRK 16 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 17 KI5VME Guthrie ETHAN 18 W5JDC BETHANY JAMES 19 AC5JM Bartlesville JERRY 20 KG5CTY Sapulpa PAT 21 KC1KCE Sapulpa GRANT 22 N9JYJ Ponca City JOHN 23 KI5YWF Oklahoma City DON 24 KD5UTW MOUNDS KEVIN […]
GridTracker Users Alert:
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
TARC Net Checkins 1-24-23
1 WA5MA Bixby MARK 2 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 3 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 4 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 5 KC1KCE Sapulpa GRANT 6 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 7 AC5JM Bartlesville JERRY 8 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 9 KI5DAZ Tulsa JAMES 10 KF6OPP EDMOND DIRK 11 KY5VAR Broken Arrow KY 12 KG5NJA Bartlesville SCOTT 13 KI5YX Coweta MIKE 14 KD5UTW MOUNDS KEVIN 15 WA5TRM Tulsa STORM 16 KN6QCJ S LAKE TAHOE ZACH 17 N5DGF TULSA DON 18 KI5WDD Tulsa ROBERT 19 AD5JL TULSA BOB 20 N5DMK Tulsa DAVID 21 KI5VMS Tulsa STEVE 22 KO5WAG Tulsa MATTHEW 23 KA5MOD Tulsa STEVE 24 KI5YWF Oklahoma City […]