ARES Oklahoma

Two Oklahoma Hamfests are still on the calendar for 2025. Amateur radio operators attend hamfests to buy things, sell things, learn things, take license tests, and meet old and new friends. Enid HamfestThe Enid Hamfest is on Saturday, September 20, 2025; tickets are available online at https://enidarc.org/store. Save $2 and order early, online! Ardmore Hamfest Texoma HamaramaThe Ardmore Hamfest, Texoma Hamarama, is on October 11, 2025; tickets are available online at https://hamarama.org/tix. Save $2 and order early, online! Ardmore Texoma Hamarama – Super RaffleThe Texoma Hamarama Hamfest has another super raffle for a Yaesu FT-DX101D HF-50 MHz 100-watt super radio. Get your (more…)

Ham Holiday 2025 OKC Hamfest July 25/26 – Super Raffle Ham Holiday 2025 is Friday and Saturday, July 25 and 26, 2025. Tickets are available online at https://hamholiday.com/tix/. Bring your amateur radio friends or make new ones here. This year, we are having a super raffle for a Yaesu FT-DX101D HF-50 MHz 100 watt radio. Get your tickets before we run out at https://hamholiday.com/raffle/ .This 100-watt HF radio is an awesome flagship model. This radio is valued at well over $3,200. Raffle tickets are only $20, with only 300 tickets sold. The winner of this prize does not have to be present to (more…)

What is Field Day? ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth full weekend of June each year, thousands of radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups, or friends to operate remotely. Field Day is a picnic, a campout, practice for emergencies, an informal contest, and, most of all, FUN! For more information and to find the nearest field day site, visit ARRL’s Field Day site at https://www.arrl.org/field-day We use these same skills when we help with events such as marathons and bike-a-thons, fund-raisers such as walk-a-thons, celebrations such as (more…)

Legislation Will Increase Communication Options During Natural Disasters WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Richard Blumenthal, D- Conn., and Representatives August Pfluger, R-Tex., and Joe Courtney, D-Conn. announced their joint re-introduction of legislation in the Senate and House to restore the right to Amateur Radio operators to install the antennas necessary to serve their communities. Here in Oklahoma, we ask all amateur radio clubs and individuals to visit https://ok.arrl.org/hoa/. This page has all of our contact information and template letters. Please note that all letters should be sent to the email and address listed. Letters emailed to legislators tend to (more…)

January 21, 2025 Winter Field Day is among us. Field days are a great way to learn how to operate your radios or other peoples’ radios. Typically, a field day operation starts mid-day on Saturday and operates for 24 hours straight. I’ve listed all the Winter Field Day sites I’m familiar with, so you can join the fun no matter where you live. Also, you can operate from your house to contact as many folks as possible. More information (and the new rules for this year) are available at https://winterfieldday.com/. Visit one of these sites, or fire up your radio to (more…)

Here comes the Ardmore Hamarama https://hamarama.org hamfest, which will be held on October 26, 2024, at the Ardmore, OK Convention Center. Entry tickets are only $10 in advance and $12 at the door. Flea market tables are going fast for $15. Plan to visit Ardmore to see your old friends, make new friends, attend great training forums, and buy/sell tons of radio equipment. CORA will offer another chance to win a Yaesu FTDX10 Special Package Super Raffle this year. For only a $20 super raffle entry ticket, you can win a chance to win a $3,000+ deluxe radio package. Only (more…)

As you are likely aware, there are two bills before Congress which will protect amateur radio antennas from overly restrictive HOA rules and covenants, HR 4006 and SB 3690. John Stratton, N5AUS, West Gulf Division Director has initiated a letter writing campaign for the West Gulf Division.  For those of us in Oklahoma, we need to contact our respective Senators and House members to encourage their support of these measures.  The bills have a goodly amount of bipartisan support for this issue and we must strike while the soldering iron is hot! We need Congress to approve these bills, and (more…)

SM045 – Field Day is Coming!!! (more…)

You may have heard of some issues the ARRL has with its digital network infrastructure. Mark Kleine N5HZR will try to summarize what’s out there. https://ok.arrl.org/sm044-arrl-digital-infrastructure-issues/ (more…)

ARRL has released two new courses to train emergency communications (EmComm) operators for volunteering within the Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®). Both courses are within the ARRL Learning Center. The Basic EmComm course is designed to get a new volunteer started. It provides basic knowledge and tools for any emergency communications volunteer and contains three modules and 11 topics, including required prerequisites. It’s expected to take approximately 10 – 20 hours to complete. The Intermediate EmComm course builds on the lessons learned in the first course and equips volunteer radio amateurs with the tools needed to thrive in the fast-paced environment of public service (more…)