Holland Amateur Radio Club K8DAA USA

Field Day is June 27th and 28th.

The Holland Amateur Radio Club Field Day station will be located at Victory Point Church, 11530 Ransom Street Holland MI 49424.

Schedule:

Saturday June 27th
Site setup 9AM – Noon
Pizza Lunch for Setup Team – Noon – 1PM
Pre-Field Day ops meeting – 1:30PM
Field Day Start – 2PM
Educational Activity 2PM – 5PM
HARC Dinner (all welcome–please sign-up) – 6PM – 7 PM
Sunday June 28th
Ops. Breakfast – 8AM
Field Day End – 2PM
Tear-down 2PM – 4PM

If you would like to participate, please indicate your interest by email and also let me know if you (or your family/group) plan on attending the Saturday night dinner and the number of participants in your group.

Lastly, Field Day is an operating event; it’s primary purpose is to demonstrate our abilities as radio amateurs in the area of communications. This being the purpose, we need people to join us who are willing to spend some time “in the chair.” So, please let me know if you are willing to operate for a couple of hours; and your availability. Typically we have allowed our Youth operators to run on Saturday afternoon into the evening and I plan on that again this year; so, where we really need help is the overnight shift into Sunday morning and afternoon.

73, Doug K8DP    doug.papay@gmail.com
HARC Field Day 2026 Chairman

On Saturday,  June 6, 2026, at the IRA Hudsonville Hamfest, the Holland Amateur Radio Club will be holding licensing exams for anyone wishing to obtain or upgrade their amateur radio license.  The testing session will begin at 10:00 A.M.  The Holland ARC has no charge for any testing; however, the FCC does charge a $35 application fee for new licenses.  Upon passing your Technician exam, the FCC will email you instructions for payment.  (This $35 fee also applies to license renewals and vanity call requests, but not upgrades.)  No Morse code is required for any grade license. 

The testing session will be held at the Hudsonville Fairgrounds in a designated and marked building. 

For registration and more information, please go: http://tinyurl.com/holo-hiad-ve

What to bring with you:  If available, bring a legal photo ID such as a driver’s license or passport.  If no legal photo ID is available, bring 2 pieces of legal ID.  Anyone 18 years old or younger must have a parent or legal guardian present for the entire testing session.  IMPORTANT… If you currently hold a ham radio license, bring the license and a copy of the license to the test session.  (Copy will be sent in with the testing results.)   

Very sad news to pass along.

Ernie Lloyd, W8EL passed away last month.

Obituary Notice:  https://www.hollandsentinel.com/obituaries/ppet1153276

Website story on him:  https://www.k8daa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/W8EL.pdf

So much to say about Ernie. A solid fixture at the club’s field day with his K2.

Always an amazingly graceful attitude about teaching people the joys of CW. (Dave, K8RXB?!)

It looks like there were no services or visitation.

Tom Bosscher

Mike, K8NWN, did about three hours of tower work recently on the 30 foot tower on top of the Warm Friend building downtown Holland. The top, off frequency antenna was taken down and side mounted for the Tulip Time Committee’s repeater, an X50 was put on top, (for the 147.50/146.50 repeater) and a 3 VHF element beam, pointed to the end of the Tulip Time parade route was installed, with a colocated UHF beam, to run the temporary remote receiver to the 147.06 repeater for Tulip Time.

If you hear or see Mike, say a lot of thank you’s for his work.

If you haven’t already done so, please join the Holland Amateur Radio Club for another successful year by renewing your membership today.  This club is active and growing and we need your support to keep the ball rolling.  Where else can you have so much fun for so little cost?  (We’re talking about the cost of membership, not your radios!)  And how easy can it be to pay those dues?  Just bring your $25 (single) or $35 (family) dues to the next meeting, OR mail it to Holland Amateur Radio Club, PO Box 2104, Holland, MI 49422-2104 OR you can use Paypal.  Even if you don’t have a Paypal account, you can still pay online using your credit card. Details are on the membership page:  https://www.k8daa.org/?page_id=2458.

The Holland Amateur Radio Club values your membership and your support.  Thank you!

In case you haven’t heard, the Holland Amateur Radio Club has a new logo! We’ll be using this new logo on T-Shirts, caps, hoodies, desktop backgrounds, screensavers, and anything else you can stick a logo on! HARC would like to thank Rob and Christina NR8J and KJ8FIZ for making this beautiful new logo for HARC. Rob has asked us to share the designs here so people can check it out and download them for their desktop or screensaver if they so wish. Please enjoy.  There are 4 file types for you to choose from: TIFF, PDF, PNG, and JPEG. Click on link and right click to Save Image

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JPG Version

TIFF Version

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The Holland Amateur Radio club is on Facebook!  It’s where to go for the latest news, ideas, questions, and comments.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/233793361844/

Pictures and words from Jeff, KD8THX on the rebuild of the club’s DMR repeater.

DMR Repeater KD8THX Nov 2020