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Latest Blog Posts
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I need articles and photos for Zero Beat!
Anyone for dropping me an email with photos or articles of interest to HCRA members? If you are tired of seeing SOTA articles you should submit something to me for upcoming issues of Zero Beat — I would like material by early next week. (Sorry, that doesn’t mean there won’t be any more SOTA items!)…
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2014 Election draws near, nominations entertained.
Hi folks, The 2014 Election will be held at our June 7th meeting. As in years past many board members have once again raised their hands to help guide HCRA through another year of fun and excitement. For many of them this will be another year of many serving HCRA. Wouldn’t it be great if…
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WRTC is coming in 2014 – are you ready to pitch in?
WRTC is just around the corner. We’re looking to field (literally) a second station this year. Who’s game to give it a go? So what exactly is WRTC and more importantly WRTC-2014? Read on. In short you could consider it the ‘Olympics of Amateur Radio’. Read all about the competition and its history here. The…
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March Board Meeting Minutes
HCRA Board meeting 3/5/2013 Official minutes 7:20pm Vice President report -KB1NWH KX3 Raffle won by K1MA 234 tickets sold $1300 net profit 7:30pm Treasurer Report – AA1YW Income silent auction – $40.00 KX3 raffle – $1630.00 membership – $105.00 party – $731.67 50/50 raffle – $34.50 Expenses p.o. box -$86.00 FD deposit -$50.00 Total income…
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Are you Getting Zero Beat
EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT. Or maybe you or some one you know has not been. If you or someone you know has E-mail and are not receiving and would like to receive the HCRA Zero Beat Via E-mail please contact me. KB1NWH Ed KB1NWH@arrl.net
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2013 Annual HCRA Show & Tell Meeting a Success
Last Friday’s Show & Tell meeting was a great success. We had 9 members bring projects that were either completed or close to completion. All of the presenters did a great job explaining their projects in detail to the club and the audience had good questions for the presenters. Congratulations to Juergen – AB1SU (DK1TM)…
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And the winner is… ???
It brings us great pleasure to announce the winner of the KX3 raffle today. The drawing was held a little after noon at the close of the MTARA Hamfest. Our winner is: Chris Snyder/KB1RMA Unfortunately Chris was not present to collect his prize. We will be shipping it out to him the first part of…
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HCRA Meeting Streaming Live
Were trying out a new thing. We’re trying to broadcast out meetings live. Give it a shot, We should be live right now (3/1/2013 @ 7:00pm) Video streaming by Ustream Thanks!
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Visit the HCRA Table at the MTARA Hamfest this Saturday.
MTARA Hamfest this Saturday, March 2nd – Visit us at the HCRA club table! The hamfest/fleamarket season is just getting underway. What better way to break out of the winter blues than to spend a few hours with your local friends, wander aisles of tables full of ham radio bargains, eat food you probably shouldn’t, and overall have…
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From the Shack – March 2013
Next Meeting March 1st – Our annual Show & Tell night! It is March Madness again at HCRA with our annual Show & Tell event. I’ve heard a lot of members are putting the finishing touches on their projects and expect we will see a grand assortment of ham radio, or not so ham radio, contraptions…