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November 2026 Newsletter


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Weekly Summary

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Day Time Event Location
Monday 11:00 am Lunch at Aviator's Grill Hooks Airport
Tuesday 7:00 pm DMR Net on 440.300 NARS Repeater System
Wednesday 11:00 am Lunch at different locations Check w5nc.groups.io
Wednesday 7:30 pm ARRL Audio News Broadcast NARS Repeater System
Wednesday 8:00 pm VHF/UHF Net NARS Repeater System
Saturday 7:00 am Breakfast at Broken Yolk Cafe Louetta/Stuebner Airline
Saturday 10:00 am Amateur Radio Newsline Broadcast NARS Repeater System

 

Club Radio Station

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The club has a radio station set up in the radio room within the emergency operations center at Harris County ESD 16 Administration.

HF Radios

  • Icom IC-7300 | 100W HF/50MHz SDR Transceiver
  • Icom IC-746PRO | 100W HF/50MHz Transceiver
  • Yaesu FT-8800R | UHF/VHF Mobile Transceiver (used to link to the 443.075 repeater in downtown Houston  )

Antennas

  • Mosley PRO-67-C-3 | 7 band, 7 element beam, 24-foot boom (40m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m)
  • Comet GP-3 | Dual band 2m/70cm vertical Antenna
  • Unknown | UHF Yagi antenna (pointed to 443.075 repeater)
  • Unknown | 4-element VHF/UHF Yagi antenna

Tower

  • Rohn 45G | 50-foot Free-standing
  • Yaesu G-1000DXA | Rotor and Controller

Request Access to Radio Room

You can access the Administration building and radio room once Harris County ESD No. 16 performs a background check and provides you an access card.  The access card provides you access to the front door, the door to the hallway to the radio room and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) where the radio room is located.

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Of Interest

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Spring, TX 77391

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