The PowerPoint slide deck from Mike Wideman’s (KG5MCC) presentation on building your own Buddipole antenna has been uploaded to PARK’s FaceBook page, our Groups.io site, and shortly to this webpage. Tim – K5TCJ
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Thanksgiving Meals On Wheels Nov 28th
Greetings,It is that time of the year ago for the Dallas Visiting Nurses Meals on wheels event. I am looking for around 8 people or so.It will be held Thursday Nov 28th ( Thanksgiving morning) this year it will be back over at the Jacob building which is right behind the Visiting Nurses building. (south)We…
PARK General Meeting October 15th and Elections
The next PARK general meeting is this coming Monday, October 15th 17th at 7:00 pm at the First Methodist Church of Plano, 3160 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX. As usual, VE testing will be conducted before the meeting at 6:00 pm. This months program will be Greg Evans, K5GTX, and he will be discussion Collin County ARES. We will also…
PARK General Meeting Monday September 17th
The next PARK general meeting is this coming Monday, September 17th at 7:00 pm at the First Methodist Church of Plano, 3160 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano, TX. As usual, VE testing will be conducted before the meeting at 6:00 pm. This months program will be the training for Plano Balloon Fest. Mark your calendars and come early. See you there.…
AUXCOMM Class Upcoming
If you are really interested in emergency communications, this is the class for you. I took it a couple of years ago and found it to be excellent. Tony W5ADC Auxcomm is scheduled for September 29th – 30th at the Denton County EOC. This certification class is highly recommended to those communicators that wish to work with…
Free Stop the Bleed Class
I normally only post ham radio topics, but I thought this was important enough to spread the word. I have taken the training in the past and it is very informative. As I like to say, the live you save may be me. From the Plano Police Department – Public Information Officer David Tilley, Plano Police Department…
PARK Antenna Build and Test
As a follow on to this week’s presentation on dipole antennas, we are going to go out and build some. The primary use will be the upcoming field day. We will meet at the Russell Creek Pavilion parking lot. Based on what is going on we will pick a place and start to build and…
PARK General Meeting March 19th 7:00 pm
The PARK meeting will be held on Monday March 19th. The location at the First Methodist Church of Plano. It is located at 3160 East Spring Creek Parkway, Plano,TX. We will be meeting in the large reception area. Our speaker at the P.A.R.K. meeting will be Tony W5ADC. He will be presenting “A HF Transceiver for $119”. The meeting will begin at 7…
Texas BEST & UIL Robotics Championships
I’ve been asked to organize radio communications for a portion of the competition. This year the non-robotics portion (displays, notebooks, marketing presentation, T-shirts) will be held at UTD’s Richardson campus. Because things will be spread among 3 buildings, they would like 4 radio operators for Thursday Dec. 7th, 9 AM – 6 PM, and Friday…
PBF
For the sixth consecutive year, we will be activating the PBF Special Event Station. This year we will be using a new callsign: N5B. For those of you who may be unfamiliar, a special event station is just a way for us to get on the air to promote amateur radio to the general public…