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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 Dots Resaurant Sebring square 9:00 am.
See Event Calendar for dates and times of other meetings and activities.
Club Meetings
Our monthly meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at 7pm.
We no longer meet at the AG Center. The new location is in a room next to Dee's Place Resaurant, 138 N. Ridgewood Drive (Rt 17N) off the traffic circle in downtown Sebring.
There is a small parkiing lot next to the restaurant or parking on the street.
Please check the items that you may have had listed. Make sure your items are up to date on what is left so
anything sold can be removed...
Please bring a copy of updated lists or any new listings to the monthly meeting.
Notice at the end of the year I will delete all entries in the list.....Please check to make sure you info is correct and let me know if you want to continue posting the items.
Thanks
Jeff KJ4NEO
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2017 Officers
President: Neal Hodges - W4JNH
Vice President: Brad Haag - KM4VRU
Secretary: Fred Seely - AA4ME
Treasurer:
Directors: John Chaput - KK4LI, Jim Carbaugh - KC8RB, Jeff Bronsing - KJ4NEO
2017 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
73
Highlands County SKY WARN
IMPORTANT ARES AND SKYWARN NET INFORMATION!!
STARTING JUNE 15, AND FOR ONE NIGHT A MONTH FOLLOWING
THE ARES/SKYWARN NET WILL START AT 7:30PM
THERE WILL BE A TRAINNG TOPIC AND THE SIMPLEX NET WILL NOT
TAKE PLACE THAT NIGHT.
WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE DATE and the Frequency IN ADVANCE TO EVERYONE WHO
WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE MAY DO SO.
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.
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
AP 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.
Thanks to KB4FLE,KE4CQA and KE4CPZ for this Website
Please send additions or corrections to.
W4HCA
How to call CQ
This video demonstrates how to call CQ and talk with other Hams.
