HARC Education And Training (E.A.T.) meeting — Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Understanding Modern Electronics: Amplifier Circuits Using Op-Amps
Fox Hunt! ~ Saturday, April 27, 2024
We’ve done this in the past, now put April 27, 2024 on your calendar.
A “Tune-Up In the Park” Fox Hunting exercise will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Whether you are just beginning to be interested in fox hunting or you are a seasoned veteran, plan on being at Douglas Walker Park from 9 am to 12 noon. There will be at least five micro-transmitters hidden in the park for you to take your time locating, practicing your skills, and debugging your equipment. At noon, the park activity will stop, and a live “fox” will go on the air, located within eight miles of the start. The hunt will end at 2pm.
There will be experienced fox hunters to help with your equipment and techniques. If you have a fox box or a micro/mini fox and would like to bring it to the park to be used, please contact the event coordinator, Tom Bosscher, K8TB at k8tb@arrl.net. Douglas Walker Park is on 84th Street, 1.5 miles west of US-131 exit 74, Byron Center.
Please note that the park grounds can be very wet from the spring rains and rather sloppy. Use appropriate footwear accordingly. Talk-in and information regarding uncertain weather conditions will be held at 147.16 on the IRA repeater.
Tulip Time Volunteers Needed! ~ May 9 & 11
We are looking for volunteers to help out with medical communications for the 2024 Tulip Time parades. This is perhaps our best opportunity each year to represent HARC and amateur radio within our community, and we are providing a critical service to local residents and visitors. It’s also a great time!
Radio operators are paired up with one or more medical personnel and assigned a section of the parade route. Once on station, we patrol and look for participants or spectators that are in need of medical assistance. When we encounter a medical need, we relay information regarding the patient’s condition and location to Net Control. Our Net Control operators work alongside public safety and emergency medical dispatchers to ensure that help arrives as soon as possible.
As to whether Tulip Time volunteers need to be OCEC (Ottawa County Emergency Communications) members, the answer is “NO.” In addition to OCEC members, ALL members of the Holland (HARC) and North Ottawa (NOARC) clubs are eligible to participate and we welcome all of you!
This year’s parades are on Thursday, May 9th and Saturday, May 11th. We usually meet around noon and are finished by a bit after 4pm on both days. If you’re interested in volunteering, please email me at bossman.mi@gmail.com and let me know which parade(s) you’re available to help.
….Todd Boss W8YHF, 2024 Tulip Time Communication Coordinator
February Club Meeting — Tuesday Feb. 12th
Join us on the 12th of February at the Chick-owa Club, 9279 Ottogan St, Holland, MI 49423 for our monthly meeting, at 6:30pm. This month, after our Business meeting, the Presentation will be by Jeff Nonhof, KD9THX. He’ll be discussing Yagi antenna design, antenna design software, gain and how it’s expressed, and will end up with a hands-on demo of how a Yagi antenna’s directivity changes as you add elements. As usual, Rich will have the coffee going! Join us for the fun!
HARC Antenna Work Performed…
Mike, K8NWN, did about three hours of tower work recently on the 30 foot tower on top of the Warm Friend building downtown Holland. The top, off frequency antenna was taken down and side mounted for the Tulip Time Committee’s repeater, an X50 was put on top, (for the 147.50/146.50 repeater) and a 3 VHF element beam, pointed to the end of the Tulip Time parade route was installed, with a colocated UHF beam, to run the temporary remote receiver to the 147.06 repeater for Tulip Time.
If you hear or see Mike, say a lot of thank you’s for his work.
We’re nothing without you…
If you haven’t already done so, please join the Holland Amateur Radio Club for another successful year by renewing your membership today. This club is active and growing and we need your support to keep the ball rolling. Where else can you have so much fun for so little cost? (We’re talking about the cost of membership, not your radios!) And how easy can it be to pay those dues? Just bring your $25 (single) or $35 (family) dues to the next meeting, OR mail it to Holland Amateur Radio Club, PO Box 2104, Holland, MI 49422-2104 OR you can use Paypal. Even if you don’t have a Paypal account, you can still pay online using your credit card. Details are on the membership page: https://www.hollandarc.org/?page_id=2458.
The Holland Amateur Radio Club values your membership and your support. Thank you!
New HARC Logo!
In case you haven’t heard, the Holland Amateur Radio Club has a new logo! We’ll be using this new logo on T-Shirts, caps, hoodies, desktop backgrounds, screensavers, and anything else you can stick a logo on! HARC would like to thank Rob and Christina NR8J and KJ8FIZ for making this beautiful new logo for HARC. Rob has asked us to share the designs here so people can check it out and download them for their desktop or screensaver if they so wish. Please enjoy. There are 4 file types for you to choose from: TIFF, PDF, PNG, and JPEG. Click on link and right click to Save Image
HARC on Facebook
The Holland Amateur Radio club is on Facebook! It’s where to go for the latest news, ideas, questions, and comments.
Project Pictures # 1
Pictures and words from Jeff, KD8THX on the rebuild of the club’s DMR repeater.
Email List Server for the Holland ARC
The Holland ARC can be found on the groups.io email list server. If you would like to sign up, please go to:
https://k8daa.groups.io/g/k8daa
From there you will see “apply for membership” icon. Click on that and follow the instructions and we should be good to go.
The archives are available at any time to be read without logging in. Todd, W8YHF ported over thousands of emails from the Yahoo Group.