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2020 HamfestThis years Highlands County Amateur Radio Clubs annual Hamfest will be held February 15th, 2020 from 8 am to 1 pm. The Hamfest will be at the First Baptist Church located on 111 Lake Josephine Drive, Sebring Florida, just off RT 27 at the blinking light. Admission is $5 per person, which includes one free tailgating space. Inside tables are $10 each. Coffee and donuts will be available. Tickets for the MFJ-269C SWR Analyzer will be available for $5.00 each right up to the drawing at noon ! For more information contact Brad Haag at 863-991-5650, leave a message. Talk in frequency is 147.045
x4
The Highlands County Amateur Radio Club and ARES will be holding a 2 Meter Simplex Contest on Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 9:00AM to 1:00PM. You may use a Fixed Location or Mobile. Valid Mobile Stations are within the City/Town limits of:
Avon Park, Bowling Green, Fort Meade, Frost Proof, Lake Placid, Lorida, Sebring, Wauchula and Zolfo Springs. A lunch and debriefing will follow at 1:30PM at the Hibachi Buffet in Sebring. More details to follow soon so check back !
Welcome to The Highlands County Amateur Radio Club Website.
Join us and enjoy the exciting world of Ham Radio.
Regardless of your area of interest in the hobby, we strive to make this a club for all to enjoy
Interested in Learning more or getting a Amateur Radio Operators license? Let us know, and we'll be more than happy to help you.
We invite all guests to attend our regular monthly meetings on the third Monday of the month, or join us at our breakfast get togethers.
Tuesday andThursday Breakfast: Lake Placid - 8:30 am to 10 am. At the Smoke Shack next to Dunkin Donuts
Fridays at Dee's Restaurant 138 North Ridgewood Dr. Sebring, just off the circle at 9:00AM
Quarter Century Club meets for lunch at Noon the third Wednesday of each month also at Dee's restaurant
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2020 Officers
President: Brad Haag - KM4VRU
Vice President: Ben Henley - KI4IGX
Secretary: Randy Payne - K4EZM
Treasurer: John Chaput - KK4LI
Dues
Individual Membership: $30.00
Associate Membership: $10.00 (No License / No Vote)
Send to
Highlands County ARC
PO box 7441 Sebring Florida
33870
Nets
The weekly club net is held on Wednesday at 8:30 pm on the club repeater (147.045 / 442.350 Mhz, PL 100).
A simple roundtable QSO is held daily at 7 pm on 147.550 Mhz simplex.
Weekly Highlands County ARES- Skywarn nets are held at 8pm. Listen to the club repeater just before the net for the announcement of which frequency will be used that night. The ARES simplex net is held following the repeater net on 146.535 Mhz, and is usually a roll-call format of those stations who checked into the repeater net. Anyone is welcome to check into these nets.
Testing
The Lake Wales Club conducts testing on the first Saturday of the month at the Red Cross in Winter Haven.
ATTENTION: We're looking for HCARC members that would be willing to "Elmer" people interested in becoming Amateur Radio Operators.
W4HCA
Net Wed. 8:30 pm Linked System
Lake Placid 147.045 pl 100.
Avon Park 442.350 pl 100.
7 pm Roundtable 147.550 simp.
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 information on joining ARES
contact Randy K4EZM
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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 intrest of saving some time.
Net Control Operators will rotate through out the Month so if you would like to be one contact Randy K4EZM, Jeff KJ4NEO or Brad KM4VRU
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.
FEMA
FEMA is a free app for your smart phone. You can set
5 locations to get alerts from.
reccomended by Dan Noah NWS Ruskin
Quarter Centry Club
