W5ECO - Houston ECHO Society - Meetings

Because amateur radio is such a broad hobby you will find ECHO members involved with just about every aspect of it. Besides repeaters ECHO participates in various contests such as the ARRL field day and provides communications for the Tour DuRouge bike ride. Members participate in many other area public service events. As for personal hobbies, members are involved in everything from kit building to WSPR to FT8 to raspberry PI to helping (elmering) newcomers. Everyone is welcome to attend the club meetings and are encouraged to join in on the fun.

• Next club meeting-- Monday, April 12 at the American Red Cross, with pre-meeting dinner at 5 p.m. at Goode Company Taqueria, Westpark at Kirby. Our meeting will feature a zoom presentation by KJPP, J.P. Pritchard, who was a well known Houston broadcast anchor. He'll talk about how local radio stations dealt with communications during emergencies such as hurricanes. Zoom link will be sent out with the meeting reminder.
• Upcoming presentations - May will have a zoom presentation on QRP Operating and June will have an in-person/zoom presentation on scanner radios and how P25 changed emergency communications for goverment and private businesses.
• ECHO is always looking for amateur radio presentations. If you have a specialty contact martingblaise at gmail dot com. Presentations can be in person or by ZOOM.

Previous meeting was Monday, January 12 at 7 p.m. at the American Red Cross, with pre-meeting dinner at 5 p.m. at Goode Company Taqueria, Westpark at Kirby. The presentation was by Peyton Barnes and Bill Hardy on the upcoming Bouvet DXpedition and antennas ECHO will use to try to work the DXpedition. Zoom will be on usual link in previous meeting invitation emails.