SM047 – Ardmore Hamarama Hamfest 10/26/2024

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 300 raffle tickets will be sold. This raffle includes the Yaesu FTDX10 Compact HF/50 MHz 100W SDR Transceiver, TekPower TP30SWI 30 Amp DC 13.8V Power Supply, Yaesu SP-30 Matching Speaker, DXCommander Antenna, Coax (50’), CAT Cable, and a Vibroplex SRacer DLX Morse Code Key.

Hotel rooms are available on-site if you’d like to stay the night, and amateur radio license testing will be available Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Tickets can be bought online; all the details are available at https://hamarama.org/tix/.

See you there!

SM046 – Amateur Radio Homeowner Association (HOA) Legislation

We have discussed relief for amateur radio operators living in Homeowner Associations (HOAs) and other land use restriction areas. The ARRL has worked to create and have filed a pair of bills, one in the United States House of Representatives and one in the United States Senate. As you remember from middle school civics class, the bill must pass both houses of Congress and then be signed by the President.

We need Congress to approve these bills, and we need your help to encourage our Oklahoma legislators to take action to pass them. Please print out a letter for each Senator quickly and for your specific Representative.