If you have an announcement you'd like to make available to the Club, please contact Nick, K4NHV at:
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There is going to be a class for anyone interested in upgrading to the General Class License. The class will be held February 4th, 9:00AM - 1:00PM at Leisure Acres Baptist Church 808 Gardenia St, Lake Placid, FL 33852. Contact Don, W4CBS at w4cbs@arrl.net for more information.
The HCARC Revised Constitution can be downloaded HERE.
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Rick, K4FY has the 2023 HCARC Hamfest flyer ready for download HERE.
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Pete, K1PJ gave a presentation at the October meeting on: "The Baofeng - How to manually program the UV5r" and has the PDF you can download HERE.
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The Repeater Committee is at it again! The new GMRS repeater can be found at 462.675 with PL 100.0
Note: A GMRS license is required to use the repeater and license information can be found HERE.
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HamCation is looking for volunteers. Download the flyer HERE.
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Thanks to our Repeater Committee for the hard work and efforts they put forth to keep our repeaters in top notch condition! They installed a new antenna, feedline and lightning arrestors at the 147.045 location on the Happiness Tower on 6/8/2022.
ALSO...The Repeater Committee installed a Fusion Repeater at the Happiness Tower and the frequency is 442.7375+. Set your frequency step to 12.5.
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Our morning net continues everyday at 9:00AM on the 147.045 or the 442.350 club repeaters with a PL tone of 100. The Board Members thought it would be a good thing to have a net every morning to check on the health and welfare of our Members. This is not a formal net and anyone anywhere can check in, especially all of our hams in neighboring counties! So, pour yourself a cup of coffee and come join us for some informational and sometimes humorous conversations! Also, please join us on our weekly Club Net Wednesday nights at 8:30PM.
73 Everyone!
The January Club meeting will be held February 20, 2023 at 7:00PM at Dee's Restaurant.
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Information to attend the monthly meeting using ZOOM is below:
Diane Saunders, K0DSL is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Highlands County Amateur Radio Club Monthly Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
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2022 Officers
President: Don Roberts - W4CBS
Vice President: Pete Jordan - K1PJ
Secretary: Fred Seely - AA4ME
Treasurer: Roy Jackson - KW4G
2022 Directors
Rick Gallagher - KF4Y
Jeff Bronsing - KJ4NEO
Eric Fisher - K9EWF
John Chaput - KK4LI
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WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING DUES FOR 2023! PLEASE SEND YOUR CHECK TO:
HCARC
P.O. BOX 7441
SEBRING, FLORIDA 33872
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MEMBERSHIP FEES: INDIVIDUAL $30, FAMILY $35, ASSOCIATE $10 (NO LICENSE, NO VOTE)
AFTER MAILING IN YOUR DUES, PLEASE CLICK HERE ON THE MEMBERSHIP FORM LINK AND FILL OUT THE FORM. THEN CLICK SUBMIT SO I HAVE YOUR UPDATED INFORMATION. THANKS! Roy, KW4G
Contact us via email at:
Join us at Dee's Restaurant every Friday morning at 9:00AM and every Tuesday and Thursday at 9:00AM at Logan's of Lake Placid.
Dee's Restaurant: 138 N Ridgewood Dr, Sebring, FL 33870
Logan's of Lake Placid: 381 E Interlake Blvd, Lake Placid, FL 33852
W4HCA
Morning Net 7 days a week at 9:00 am
Net Wed. 8:30 pm Linked System
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Lake Placid 147.045 pl 100.
Avon Park 442.350 pl 100.
7 pm Roundtable 147.550 simplex
A.R.E.S.
W4HEM
Net Wed. 8:00 pm
Avon Park 145.330 pl 100
Sebring 147.270 pl 100
Avon Park Bombing range 444.825 pl 100.
Lake Placid 145.210 pl 100.
Simplex 146.535
Simplex 446.000
NI4CE
7 days 8:30 pm
Lake Placid 443.950 pl 100.
Verna 145.430 pl 100.
Hardee ARG
N4EMH
Net. Mon.7:00 pm
Wauchula 146.625 pl 127.3
Lake Wales RA
K4LKW
Net. Tues. 7:30 pm
147.330 pl 127.3
442.425 pl 127.3
Polk A.R.E.S.
WC4PEM Linked System
Net Wed. 7:30
Frostproof 444.950 pl 127.3
Dundee 146.985 pl 127.3
Davenport 444.625 pl 127.3
Kathleen 443.900 pl 127.3
Okeechobee
K4OKE
Net. Mon. 8:00 pm
147.195 pl 100.
Arcadia
W4MIN
147.075 pl 100.
147.180 pl 100.
Glades County
KQ4YM
147.300 pl 100.
Thanks to KB4FLE, KE4CQA and KE4CPZ for this Website. W4HCA
Highlands County Florida
Amateur Radio
Emergency Services®
Randy Payne K4EZM
Emergency Coordinator
1-863-446-0913
for more information.
Click HERE to download the
ARES® Registration Form
ATTENTION:
Randy is also looking for volunteer operators and relief operators to work the shelters in the event of a hurricane or other disaster.
if you can help.
Combined ARES® SkyWarn© Net is on Wednesday evening 8 PM.
The initial call will be on the 147.045 pl 100 about 5 minutes before the hour.
Net Control for the evening will announce what repeater will be used for the evenings net.
The simplex net is now a roll call net, set up in the interest of saving some time.
Net Control Operators will rotate through out the Month so if you would like to be one contact:
We will rotate repeaters as well to make sure they get used and to see that they are working properly
Everyone is invited to check in.
There are many sources of Weather alerts/warnings
I am asking all Sky Warn members to use the FEMA app.
Download the free FEMA app HERE for your smartphone.
You can set 5 locations to get alerts from.
-Recommended by Dan Noah NWS Ruskin-
QCWA Meeting Every Third Wednesday of the Month at Noon.
Dee's Restaurant
138 N. Ridgewood Dr.
Sebring, Florida 33870
