Call sign W4AAZ, operates on 147.360 mhz with +100hz tone

The North Okaloosa Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (NOARC) is a service organization located in Crestview, Florida. It has members from Santa Rosa, Walton, and Okaloosa Counties in Florida and Covington County, Alabama.  During the club's history, members have supported the community numerous times by providing emergency communications and were often the only means of communication in and out of areas affected by disasters.  Club activities include participation each year in the American Radio Relay League sponsored Field Day event, hidden transmitter hunts, picnics, and hosting Technician Classes.  Our goal is to enjoy amateur radio and to introduce and promote the hobby to the public to ensure that there will always be a pool of well trained and well equipped hams ready to support our community when needed.

The next NOARC Club meeting will be held:

Date: Thursday December 18th for its Tri-Club Christmas Party

Time: 6:00 P.M.

Place: Northbay Baptist Church, in Niceville

In January 2009 we will meet back at the Old Dorcas Fire Department, about 8 miles east of Crestview. Fire Station is on dirt road directly behind an Exxon Station off of U.S. 90.  

Special Announcement

Cal, W4GMH, and Bob, KI4MEU, have come up with a Tri-Club Christmas Party plan.  We can have our Christmas party at the Northbay Baptist Church in Niceville at no cost.  We will have the party on Thursday, December 18th, at 6 P.M. 

The Tri-Club party is intended to promote fellowship and cooperation among the Okaloosa County hams to improve our ability to provide emergency service, get new hams on the air, and develop cooperation among us for things like antenna parties or other forms of helping each other out.

Everybody have a happy Thanksgiving.  

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Highlights from the October 23rd club meeting.

We had 17 attendees including the President of the PARC and V.P. from the Milton Amateur Radio Club.  

We voted to combine the November and December meetings into our annual Christmas Party and have it on December 18th. We plan to combine our party with the PARC Club's as well.   We discussed several locations and Cal, W4GMH, will research locations and prices for Steve, KB4OID, to bring up in the PARC meeting Nov. 6th. We were leaning towards Giuseppi's in Niceville but need to see what Cal finds.

Jim, N4NID, made a repeater report and brought up an important issue. We have had several instances lately of people "Inadvertently sitting on the mobile microphone, PTT" locking up the repeater. I know we have all been guilty of doing it in the past. His solution is simple. Most modern rigs have a time out timer (TOT), option but the default is usually set to off. If you are mobile or in range of the repeater, we recommend you turn it on to 3 mins. or less.  If you have any questions about this function please review your owner's manual or contact me, (Phil-N6COP) for assistance.

Thank you

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THANKS TO STEVE MCCARTER-KB4OID AND JIM POTTER-N4NID' S EFFORTS WE NOW HAVE A 440 MHZ D-STAR REPEATER.  THE 2 METER AND GATEWAY FUNCTIONALITY IS A FEW WEEKS AWAY YET.

THE FREQUENCY IS 444.600, +DUP AND THE CALL SIGN IS "K4FWB".  HOWEVER, FOR NOW YOU ONLY NEED TO PUT "CQCQCQ" IN YOUR CALL SIGN PROGRAMING.

THE D-STAR REPEATER IS LOCATED ON THE SAME TOWER AS THE CRESTVIEW REPEATER (147.360).

SO IF YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY, DIAL UP THE 444.600 MACHINE AND CHECK OUT YOUR COVERAGE. WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING YOU ON THE COUNTIES NEWEST REPEATER.

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