March 17, 2023

Getting Ready for MakerFaire

Wayne Yoshida - AH6WZ gave a presentation on the Maker Faire. These faires are held across the US and in many other countries where kids and young adults show off their scientific talent. Wayne has been involved with the MakerFaire and helping the youth of our nation

For meeting time, location and map Click here.

February 17, 2023

General Meeting

The February OCARC General meeting speaker was Mick Stwertnik KB6JVT of NCG Company, who gave a presentation on the latest and greatest products from NCG, Comet Antenna, Maldol, Daiwa & Creative Design (Create). For more information on NCG Click here.

January 28 - 29, 2023

“Winter Field Day”

Contest period was Saturday 1900 UTC to Sunday 1900 UTC

The event was held at the Ocean View School District Offices, 17200 Pinehurst Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647 (Same location as the past few years).

Even though the power multiplier was cut from 2 to 1 for < 100 watts, we still turned out an impressive (to us) score. Our submitted score wil be published on our Winter FD page when available.

January 20, 2023

Emergency Communications

Bob Turner - W6RHK was our guest speaker. Bob is the ARRL Orange Section Communications Manager (SCM) as well as the ARRL Orange Section Emergency Coordinator (SEC). He spoke on Emergency Communications in our county and preparations for a possible major earthquake, an "ark-storm" or a prolonged power grid failure

Monthly in 2023:

Saturday Club Board Meetings and Breakfasts [2023]

This year we are getting back to holding board meetings at a restaurant. Our board meetings are held on the first Saturday of the month:

Board meetings were held on:

Mar 4th¹, Feb 4th¹, and Jan 7th¹.

¹ This breakfast board meeting was held at the Streamliner Restaurant 186 N Atchinson St., Orange, CA