Author: Mark

The 2023 Oklahoma QSO Party is this weekend, on March 11th and 12th. This will run from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm on Saturday and from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sunday, Oklahoma time. Note that Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend.If you are an Oklahoma station, please consider going mobile this year to help get all 77 counties on-the-air in a big way!! Connie Marshall K5CM has all the details on his OK QSO party web page. Grab your HF radio and get on-the-air. (more…)

Elk City Hamfest March 4th, Green Country Hamfest April 7th and 8th. Details here. See you there! https://ok.arrl.org/sm035-elk-city-and-green-country-hamfests/ (more…)

Crossroads Amateur Radio Club will sponsor a hamfest this Saturday, January 14, 2023. More details at https://ok.arrl.org/hamfests/checotah/. (more…)

2023 will be celebrated by ARRL as “The Year of the Volunteer.” More information will be available throughout the year as the details are confirmed. However, the first adventure has been announced as a project called “Volunteers On The Air (VOTA).” More information is available at https://ok.arrl.org/vota/ (more…)

Find all of the details at this link SM030 – Cycle 66 Needs You / National Weather Festival (more…)

The Ardmore Hamarama hamfest is this weekend 10/21 and 10/22. The Enid hamfest is in two weeks 11/5. See you there! For more details visit http://ok.arrl.org/sm029-hamarama-and-enid-hamfests/ (more…)

August 19/20/21, 2022 join us to activate as many of the 164 OK Parks On The Air. Also, join us to hunt the parks in 112 countries! Details at http://ok.arrl.org/sm028-ok-parks-on-the-air-okpota/ (more…)

Ham Holiday 22 is in the books, Ponca City 22 is coming in September, Hamarama 22 is coming in October, and Enid 22 is coming in November. All the details are at this link: http://ok.arrl.org/sm027-hamfests-hamfests-hamfests/ (more…)

Hamword is a Winlink-based game that mimics the popular five-letter word guessing game, Wordle. Learn more here… http://ok.arrl.org/sm026-winlink-hamword-game/ (more…)

Seminole Communications Need A message from the ARRL Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator, Mark Conklin N7XYO… 2000L 6 MAY 2022    DO NOT SELF DEPLOY ATTENTION ALL ARES-OK members are on Stand-by –   ARES-OK Districts 11, 5 & 6 should prepare to muster teams if requested, a LIMITED deployment is expected. The OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT has requested communications support from the ARRL/Amateur Radio Emergency Services. ARES-OK Leaders (ReginalEC, DistrictEC & CountyEC) are asked to contact their ARES-OK team(s) of volunteers to ensure that they have received this info and are ready to help. SCOPE: Provide voice communications between chainsaw and debris removal teams and their base of operations. Seminole (more…)