Please plan to attend our October meeting on October 8th at the North Fire Station.
Roger
KF5SDE
Please plan to attend our October meeting on October 8th at the North Fire Station.
Roger
KF5SDE
Hello ADARC Members,
Mike Alexander has offered a vintage Hammarlund HQ-110A AM/CW receiver to anyone in the club who may be interested. He would prefer that it go to a ham radio enthusiast rather than be discarded.
According to Mike:
Mike is currently offering the receiver free of charge before considering disposal. Photos from his August 12 email are attached for reference.
If you are interested, please contact:
Mike Alexander
Email: mike.alex@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 501-920-4171
73,
David Eichenberger
W5WUP
All,
This is early notice that Roger will be out of town next week and I will be committed to a photography gig on Thursday and Friday nights next week.
Therefore, we will cancel the Tech Night on August 13 and resume in September with the next TECH NIGHT.
As for repeater update.
We have a quote of $1700 to climb the County radio tower and install an antenna, provide 200’ of 7/8” Hardline with connectors, and a standoff for our DB-224E antenna, donated by Eric Corin.
In addition, the first Quantar repeater had the Power Amplifier fail at 13 months, which was well out of warranty. The repair costs on that was $650 counting shipping back to Sunny Communications.
We have a pledge of $850 toward the global cost and the Club has ~$2400 in the bank.
So, we can fund this effort but any and all donations toward the effort to move the PJ Repeater onto the County tower, and leave a full backup setup at Daniel’s, will be appreciated.
We are also looking at a duplexer for Daniel’s location.
73s,
W5WUP
David
The quarterly newsletter has been posted
Please make plans to attend our meeting Thursday evening, July 9th at the North Fire Station. Eat at 5ish, meeting at 6.
Roger KF5SDE
QST QST QST
This Thursday night is the July meeting of the Arkansas Diamond Amateur Radion Club. We eat at 5 and meet at 6.
Also, tomorrow night, Monday, at 7:30 is the Petit Jean Mountain 2 Meter Net.
Please join us for both events.
73s,
W5WUP
David
The PREZ
Good news everybody. The Petit Jean repeater has been restored. We will have a net tonight at the usual 7:30 pm. 146.685 – offset and a tone of 141.3. David W5WUP is the planned net control.
73
Howdy Everyone:
Please make plans to attend the Arkansas Diamond Amateur Club regular meeting Thursday, April 9th at the North Fire Station across from Caseys in Morrilton. We will have Pizza and Fellowship at 5pm with the regular meeting commencing at 6.
We have a special presentation planned. Glen Popiel, the author of at least 3 books on Arduino will be the guest speaker. I would like to have a crowd there to hear him, so please make plans to attend.

Also our quarterly newsletter is posted under Newsletters..
73
Roger
KF5SDE
You are reminded of the upcoming amateur radio meeting at the North Fire Station on January 8th at 6 PM, where dues will be collected, and to pay special attention to David’s article in the newsletter about amateur radio opportunities for 2026.
Attend the regular meeting and pay attention to David’s article
Thursday night Sept 11th we will be having an antenna building party for Tech Night. Meeting starts at 6pm at the North Fire Station in Morrilton. No food will be served.
We will be building the Pota Performer antenna designed by Greg Mihran. Below is a copy of his newsletter with links to a wide variety of information concerning what he has to offer. As of this writing I have all but one of the components to make this antenna. What I need is a RF Feedline Choke. If anyone has one please bring it with you. I may have one in my parts box but it sure would be nice to have a backup. If we don’t have one we can make it. The link to the plans to make this antenna are contained in the newsletter below. If you would like to subscribe to Greg’s newsletter you can email your request to him. He will be our program, via zoom, for the November Tech Night. This will be our opportunity to ask questions and meet him.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Roger KF5SDE