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 […]
Net Checkins 2.7.2023
1 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 2 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 3 KC9THI Tulsa IAN 4 WA5MA Bixby MARK 5 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 6 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVID 7 AA5AS Bixby RANDY 8 KY5VAR Broken Arrow KY 9 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 10 KF5VCQ Sand Springs STEVE 11 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 12 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 13 AG5SL McAlester JAMES 14 KD5KNA JENKS JOHN 15 K9PAI Tulsa RHET 16 KI5ZDA NEWALLA BEN 17 WX5FTS Tulsa BRIAN 18 WD5HHC TULSA JIM 19 N5LOL TULSA BRENT 20 K8BPZ Killeen ROSS 21 KD5UTW MOUNDS KEVIN 22 N9JPH McAlester JASON 23 KI5YSY Muskogee EASTON 24 KI5VME Guthrie ETHAN 25 […]
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 […]
TARC Meeting Minutes 1.17.23
On Tuesday, 17 January 2023 at 1900 hours local, in Room-3140 of Keplinger Hall at the University of Tulsa, Mark, WA5MA, called to order the meeting of the Tulsa Amateur Radio Club. WA5MA introduced himself and the club officers present. He said that this month we will forego the round-robin introductions. WA5MA distributed certificates of appreciation to the following persons: W5RAB, Bob, for his long service maintaining the repeater system. W5JHC, Jack, for upgrading & maintaining the club web-site. W5AWS, Andrew, for comprehensive minutes of meeting. N5TWB, Bart, for public event organizing and ice cream. KC9THI, Ian, for organizing the […]
HF University Suggestion
We are looking for input on ideas for the next HF University. Got a topic you wish you knew more about or want to go more in depth on something you saw at the last HF University now is the time to start letting us know so we can get presenters for our next event!
TARC Net Checkins 1-10-23
1 WA5MA Bixby MARK 2 W5AWS Tulsa ANDREW 3 K5CAY Tulsa DAN 4 K5TZS Broken Arrow DAVE 5 WB5ANX TULSA PAUL 6 AA5AS Bixby RANDY 7 W5IAS Tulsa Tulsa Amateur Rado Club Inc 8 KB5VDA Tulsa GREG 9 KI5VYF Tulsa LINDA 10 KC1KCE Sapulpa GRANT 11 W5JDC BETHANY JAMES 12 KF5ZTY Tulsa BRANDON 13 AC5JM Bartlesville JERRY 14 WX5TIM Alma TIM 15 KI5YX Coweta MICHAEL 16 N9JPH McAlester JASON 17 KE5ZUS * Hallett TODD 18 KI5YWF Oklahoma City DON 19 KC5MJE JENNINGS KENNY 20 KG5YBK Bethany SHANE 21 KE5ZUS Hallett TODD 22 KG5CTY Sapulpa PAT 23 WA5TRM Tulsa STORM 24 […]