February OCARC Meeting

 February Meeting

Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 7pm

Orange County Community Foundation Meeting Room

Paoli, IN

OCARC January Meeting - January 16th 7pm

The January OCARC meeting will occur this coming Thursday January 16th at 7pm at the Orange County Community Foundation meeting room in the lower level of the Orange County Community Center next to the Orange County Fairgrounds and IU Health Paoli Hospital.

Topics for this months meeting

*A demonstration on VHF/UHF Hotspots, how to use them and what you can use them for.  IF you have a digital HT bring it to the meeting and try it out for yourself.

*Winter Field Day 2025.  We will finalize plans for Winter Field Day and will need to finalize a few things including

**How many Transmitters**

**How many people want to participate**

**Finalize the location of the event**

**Rigs, Antennas and feedline availability**

**How many hours do we want to participate**

*General update on the 2m repeater and discussion on the 70cm project

*further discussion on the ARRL Grant Award

 

A Simple J-Pole Antenna for 2M

 This is the plan that I used to build my J-pole antenna.  If you follow the cuts exactly as listed it works well.  I’ll post the photos of the results.  I 3D printed the coax connection point for a stronger connection to the antenna.  One of the pipe clamps used is connected to a screw on the ground side of the so239 and on the driven element side I left the so239 screw out on one corner so that I had a clear path from the center pin to the screw on that clamp. The plans can be found online and was created by Michael Martens, KB9VBR who has his own YouTube channel at KB9VBR Antennas.

73

Matt, KB9HUO

 

OCARC December Meeting

 Orange County Amateur Radio Club will hold its next meeting on December 19, 2024 at 7:00pm

Where:

Orange County Community Foundation meeting room

1075 North Sandy Hook Road, Suite 2

Paoli, IN 47454

The meeting room is in the lower level of the Orange County Community Center, Next to the Orange County Fairgrounds and IU Health-Paoli Hospital.

We have some BIG news to share with everyone!  I hope everyone can make it and fill up the room for the last meeting of the year!  Our growth since April has caused us to outgrow the previous two meeting spaces that we were in and so far we haven't been able to run out of room on this one!

We will also be holding a final vote for the Constitution and Bylaws updates we made last month and we will be setting up the terms for the Board members 1, 2 and 3 year terms and who will hold those.