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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 & Thursday Breakfast: Havana Nights Cafe, 204 N Main Ave., Lake Placid - 8:30 am to 10 am.
Fridays at Dee's Restaurant 138 North Ridgewood Dr. Sebring, just off the circle at 9:00AM
Club Meetings
Monthly meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7pm.
We meet at "Stepz"next to Dee's Place Resaurant, 138 N. Ridgewood Drive 33870 north of the traffic circle in downtown Sebring.
There is a small parking lot next to the restaurant or parking on the street.
Please Read the Proposed By-Laws in the General Section of the Club Website
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2018 Officers
President: Pete Jordan - K1PJ
Vice President: Neal Hodges - W4JNH
Secretary: Brad Haag - KM4VRU
Treasurer: Ben Henley - KI4IGX
Board of directors: John Chaput - Jeff Bronsing KJ4NEO, Randy Payne - K4EZM
Dues
Individual Membership: $20.00
Family Membership: $25.00
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.
Highlands County Florida
Amateur Radio
Emergency Services®
Randy Payne K4EZM
Emergency Coordinator
1-863-446-0913
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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 KEZM, or Jeff KJ4NEO
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.
These are two sources of Weather alerts/warnings that
I am asking all Sky Warn members to use in the future.
The first one:
FEMA is a free app for your smart phone. You can set
5 locations to get alerts from.
The second one:
Interactive National Weather Service (INWS) is a webpage you will need to register. Using SKY Warn and ARES as your organization... once accepted you can set up your alerts to get emails and or test messages.
These were reccomended by Dan Noah NWS Ruskin
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
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