Holland Amateur Radio Club K8DAA USA

The Education and Training, “E.A.T.” meeting will be held the fourth Tuesday of August, at 6:30pm, at the GroundWorks space (on the west side of the first floor) inside Herrick District Library, 300 S. River Ave., in Holland MI.  All registrants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.  Registration opens one month before the event.

If you have questions about amateur radio equipment, operating practices, licensing, test and measurement, or anything remotely related to amateur radio, this is the place to be.  And, for more information regarding anything connected to the E.A.T. meetings, please contact Jeff Nonhof, KD8THX, the program’s originator, leader, and just general guru of all things radio, computer, and electronics related.  (His email is on his QRZ webpage.)

HARC education and training sessions are open to the public and you do not need to be a HARC member or have an amateur radio license to attend.

For more information regarding the Herrick Public Library and to register for events, see their website:  https://herrickdl.org.

A notice from HARC’s detail oriented Park2Park organizer:

On Saturday, September 26th, HARC will be providing radio communications for the Park2Park 1/2 marathon and 5K (http://www.park2parkrace.com/), which benefit Neighbors Plus (http://www.neighborsplus.org/), a nonprofit Christian community development organization based on the North side of Holland. HARC has assisted with this event each year since 2015.

In 2025, with 20 operators using the 06 repeater (147.06+ PL 94.8Hz), we covered the aid stations and many navigation points along the entire course, along with three bicycle/motorcycle mobile operators.

We will arrive at the fairgrounds by 7:30am on race day and will be needed until around noon. I plan to make use of the 06 repeater again this year as it performs extremely well throughout the entire course (some locations require less than 1 watt TX power).

If you are interested in working this event or have any questions, please respond to this post or email me at bossman.mi@gmail.com. This is a great first event for new operators; if you are uncomfortable working solo, please let me know and I’ll pair you with a more experienced operator. If you would like to work the event but can’t stay until noon, I should be able to assign you to a station at the beginning of the course so that you can depart early.

This event benefits a great organization and provides good exposure for HARC in the community. Thanks to HARC for supporting this event.

Thanks and 73,
Todd W8YHF

Very sad news.

A long time friend and member of the Holland ARC, Jim Jipping, passed away yesterday.

W8MRR, or Whiskey 8 Mighty Red Roses was bigger than life.

A tremendous booster and supporter of amateur radio, we have lost one of the good ones.

Obituary: https://www.langelandsterenberg.com/obituaries/james-jipping/#!/TributeWall

This year’s Field Day for the Holland ARC was something wonderful.

Saturday morning watching the entire Mol and Rose families putting up antennas.

Witnessing, once again, Jeff Nonhof with his educational materials. Why was I fascinated by the EH wave simulation?

The older Mol brothers on the grill and Jay Mol championing the tables of food.

The “young kids” staffing the digital trailer out front. And having one of the best dogs in the world with them.

Youthful operators? Try over 14 of them. I challenge any club to beat that number.

Morse code? Did anyone watch Dave and Gan pounding the brass on one of 58 different keys?

Safe? Was Field Day safe? With Mike Koster in charge, it was. No one died.

But behind all of it. Doug Papay. With support from Carrie and Grace.

Doug and the ladies simply rocked the place. Doug’s 85 page Excel database document listed everything. No details overlooked. Doug’s concern to get it right and have fun was evident.

If you see Doug, please thank him for the tremendous number of hours (hundreds?) and concern that he put into this club activity.

Me? So thankful to have Doug on our Team.

Tom Bosscher K8TB

Once again our Holland ARC VE team held a test session at the IRA Hudsonville Hamfest.

Seven folks came to test.  Two became new Techs, two upgraded to General and one upgraded to Extra.  A very nice session.

Below is a note from Bob Broene, our head VE.  Thank you to him and the other VE’s, and if you hear the following calls listed below, welcome and congratulate them.

If you haven’t already done so, please join the Holland Amateur Radio Club for another successful year by renewing your membership today.  This club is active and growing and we need your support to keep the ball rolling.  Where else can you have so much fun for so little cost?  (We’re talking about the cost of membership, not your radios!)  And how easy can it be to pay those dues?  Just bring your $25 (single) or $35 (family) dues to the next meeting, OR mail it to Holland Amateur Radio Club, PO Box 2104, Holland, MI 49422-2104 OR you can use Paypal.  Even if you don’t have a Paypal account, you can still pay online using your credit card. Details are on the membership page:  https://www.k8daa.org/?page_id=2458.

The Holland Amateur Radio Club values your membership and your support.  Thank you!

Very sad news to pass along.

Ernie Lloyd, W8EL passed away last month.

Obituary Notice:  https://www.hollandsentinel.com/obituaries/ppet1153276

Website story on him:  https://www.k8daa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/W8EL.pdf

So much to say about Ernie. A solid fixture at the club’s field day with his K2.

Always an amazingly graceful attitude about teaching people the joys of CW. (Dave, K8RXB?!)

It looks like there were no services or visitation.

Tom Bosscher

Mike, K8NWN, did about three hours of tower work recently on the 30 foot tower on top of the Warm Friend building downtown Holland. The top, off frequency antenna was taken down and side mounted for the Tulip Time Committee’s repeater, an X50 was put on top, (for the 147.50/146.50 repeater) and a 3 VHF element beam, pointed to the end of the Tulip Time parade route was installed, with a colocated UHF beam, to run the temporary remote receiver to the 147.06 repeater for Tulip Time.

If you hear or see Mike, say a lot of thank you’s for his work.