Holland Amateur Radio Club K8DAA USA

Education and Training, “E.A.T.” meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month, at 6:30pm, at the GroundWorks space (on the west side of the first floor) inside Herrick District Library, 300 S. River Ave., in Holland MI.  All registrants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Registration opens one month before the event.

Also keep an eye on the Herrick District Library website for upcoming events such as:

Tech Help Open Hours – weekly, 2P-4P.  See web page for dates.
Got a tech question you just can’t figure out? Need help with email on your phone? Drop in and ask us your questions. We can help you find out the answers.

If you have questions about amateur radio equipment, operating practices, licensing, test and measurement, or anything remotely related to amateur radio, this is the place to be.  And, for more information regarding anything connected to the E.A.T. meetings, please contact Jeff Nonhof, KD8THX, the program’s originator, leader, and just general guru of all things radio, computer, and electronics related.  (His email is on his QRZ webpage.)

HARC education and training sessions are open to the public and you do not need to be a HARC member or have an amateur radio license to attend.

For more information regarding the Herrick Public Library and to register for events, see their website:  https://herrickdl.org.

Once again our Holland ARC VE team held a test session at the IRA Hudsonville Hamfest.

Seven folks came to test.  Two became new Techs, two upgraded to General and one upgraded to Extra.  A very nice session.

Below is a note from Bob Broene, our head VE.  Thank you to him and the other VE’s, and if you hear the following calls listed below, welcome and congratulate them.

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; its 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    k8dp.doug@gmail.com
HARC Field Day 2026 Chairman

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!

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.

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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