FIRST Meeting

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The FIRST Meeting of the Arkansas Diamond Amateur Radio Club will be THURSDAY NIGHT, February 13, at 6:00 pm at the Morrilton North Fire Station, across from Casey’s and on the corner of Hospital Drive. Follow the Hospital Signs and you can’t miss it.

EAT AT 5:00 pm (Three Different Chili Recipes from Roger, ME, and Will Fosse).

Again, EAT AT 5:00, MEET at 6:00!

Winter Field Day, February Club Meeting

Winter Field Day

Due to lack of interest, and only one RSVP, we are NOT REPEAT NOT going to set up for Winter Field Day at the North Fire Station.

February Club Meeting

We WILL HAVE our Club Meeting, that was canceled due to snow this month, on Thursday, February 13, at the Morrilton North Fire Station. The menu is still chili for our feed, starting at 5:00 with the meeting starting at 6:00.

The program will be the same as that planned for January.

New Meeting Date

The Club Meeting on 9th of January was canceled due to weather. The first quarter meeting will be February 13, We will discuss all of the items that remain on our agenda. If John Evans can support February 13 we will still have his presentation. After the February meeting we will resume the usual schedule.

Next Meeting July 11th

New Location! North Fire Station
By the Hospital and Next to Colton’s
5pm ish if you want to eat (Pizza)
6pm for the regular meeting
David Norris the ARRL Division Manager is tentatively scheduled
For our program

2024 Summer Field Day Report

Once again, we are grateful to the city of Morrilton for the use of the North Fire Station. We began setting up around 10 am on Saturday. By 1:30 pm we had 4 stations and 4 antennas operational. 2 of the stations belonged to Chris Gimbert. We appreciate his set up and expertise. The other 2 stations were from the Conway County go box. We were able to add a long cat 4 cable to the head of the IC7100 radio so that station was well separated from the 7300 station.. We had a total of 18 people participate in our endeavor. It was good to see J. M. Rowe, the state ARRL emergency coordinator. We had a total of 136 QSOs. Our contacts were from a total of 32 states, 3 countries, 75 grids, 106 counties, and 43 ARRL sections.