Holland Amateur Radio Club K8DAA USA

Hello fellow Hams!

Our Monthly meeting is Tuesday the 11^th.  Remember, It’s at Chick-Owa at 7:00 PM, and it will be dark.

It’s time to nominate officers for next year. We need someone to serve as secretary – Kaitlin is not running again. Anyone else who wants to run for any position, please come and ne nominated.

This meeting’s presentation is the demonstration day for the Build A Transmitter Friendly Un-Competition.

Bring whatever you made, whether it was with rocks, empty bottles, a busted sign from the local watering hole, or a brand new high-spec GaN or SiC FET!

There will be prizes!

Even if your design failed, bring it and show it!  Special prize for the most ambitious non-working transmitter….

If you didn’t build something to save the day after the Apocalypse, come anyway and take a look at what others did.

If you want to make sure you have time to get your rig set up, come early. I will be there well ahead of time.

Of course, Rich will have the coffee going, and cookies!

Ed Walters K8DI

HARC President

The Holland Amateur Radio Club will be holding our next membership meeting starting at 7:00pm on October 14, 2025 at the Chick-Owa Sportsman’s Club.   If you haven’t been there, the library is located at 9279 Ottagon St, Holland.  Follow 32nd St east, out of town; Chick-Owa is on the north side of the road a bit east of 96th Ave.

Our general business meeting will be followed by a presentation.

As always, you need not be a member of the Holland Amateur Radio Club to attend any of our functions.  You don’t need to be a licensed operator – just have an interest in amateur radio.  Or just tag along with somebody who does.  But watch out, you could get hooked on the hobby!

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

PDF Version

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

The Holland ARC can be found on the groups.io email list server.  If you would like to sign up, please go to:

https://k8daa.groups.io/g/k8daa

From there you will see “apply for membership” icon. Click on that and follow the instructions and we should be good to go.

The archives are available at any time to be read without logging in.  Todd, W8YHF ported over thousands of emails from the Yahoo Group.