Meeting Notice
HOTARC will hold its monthly Meeting of Members at 7:00 PM on Thursday January 26,
2023 in person at the Clubhouse and via the Zoom Video Conferencing Platform. Please
check your email or the Members Only section of the website for login information.
The HOTLINE
Official Newsletter for the
Heart O’ Texas Amateur Radio Club
Waco, Texas
JANUARY 2023
VOLUME XLVIII, NUMBER 1
Howdy HOTARC family!
I am excited and grateful to start this new year with y’all!
I want to express all our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Jeb Leutwyler
for holding the position of President here these last few years. Jeb, with
your support and leadership our club has done very well, and we honor you
for that. I’ll be looking to you for wisdom and advice along the way!
And many thanks to our hard working Board of Directors - we really
appreciate your steady commitment over the years and into the future! We
cannot do this without you.
Thank you to the team of volunteers that have been recently working hard
on updating and upgrading our repeater site! One of my goals for this year
is that our systems we use would be updated and upgraded wherever
needed; so that we can be that much more accessible and capable, and set
up for future generations of ham operators.
And finally, thanks to you all - all of us members of the Heart O’ Texas Amateur Radio Club. We all are the club and
we can make this club whatever we want it to be.
I ask that you share your ideas and desires for the club with me and especially with each other. I ask that you try new
things and volunteer whenever possible, as we all rely on one another. Also, what have been some of your favorite
moments with the club in years past? I would love to know.
Enjoy amateur radio and enjoy your fellow hams (both in person and over the air). We are blessed to have this
community, and I am honored to be a part of it with you all.
73 and God bless, de
Seth Boren
KI5QEH
HOTARC President
HOTARC Meeting of Members
December 1, 2022
President Jeb Leutwyler KG5WHS called the meeting to order
at 7:00 pm in person and in the ZOOM Meeting Room. Bill
Feltenberger KD5UEW gave the invocation.
President Jeb Leutwyler KG5WHS led us in the Pledge of
Allegiance. 11 members were present.
Seth Boren KI5QEH moved and Jim Jud KA5QKL seconded
to accept the minutes of the previous meeting as presented in
the HOTLINE. Motion carried.
Treasurer’s report: The Treasurers Report for October 2022
as published in the HOTLINE was filed.
Committee Reports:
· ARES/RACES: Nothing to report
· Trailer Committee: No Report
· Repeater Committee: No report
· Web Committee: No report
· ATV: Nothing to report
· Education Committee: No report
Unfinished Business: No unfinished business.
New Business:
• One new member application, David Halvorsen KA5DAH.
Bill Feltenberger KD5UEW moved to accept the new
member application. Jim Jud KA5QKL seconded. Motion
carried unanimously.
• The nominating committee nominated the following people::
Seth Boren KI5QEH President, Paul Collins KG5DHS Vice
President, Mike Davis NA5X Secretary, and Jason Fedlam
KQ5UX Director (2025) Bill Feltenberger KD5UEW moved
to accept the recommendation of the nominating committee.
Paul Collins KG5DHS seconded. Motion carried
unanimously. There being no other nominees, the members
were called to vote for the officers and directors as
nominated. The vote was unanimous.
• Jeb Leutwyler KG5WHS moved that the dues for 2023
remain the same as 2022. Jason Fedlam KQ5UX seconded.
Motion carried.
President Jeb Leutwyler KG5WHS adjourned the meeting at
7:11pm.
Submitted by Mike Davis NA5X - HOTARC Secretary
The Treasurer Report
December 31, 2022
Starting Balance November 1, 2022 8,931.13$
Income
Full Membership Dues Paypal @ 11 330.00$
Full Membership Dues Cash @ 3 120.00$
Donation from WWW100 2,000.00$
Total received 2,450.00$
Total Income 2,450.00$
Expenses
Paypal Fee 12/9/2022 7.63$
Paypal Fee 12/9/2022 4.36$
Total Expenses 11.99$
Ending Balance 11,369.14$
Includes FF 330.61$
Flower Fund Total
330.61$
Submitted by
Bill Feltenberger
KD5UEW
Heart o' Texas Amateur Radio Club
12/31/2022
12/31/2022
December 31, 2022
McLennan County A.R.E.S.
by Paul Collins KG5DHS
McLennan County Emergency Coordinator
Hi HOTARC!
What is RACES??
The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) is an
emergency radio service authorized in Part 97.407 of the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and
regulations governing amateur radio in the United States.[1]
The concept of a standby "Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
Service" to replace the conventional "Amateur Radio Service"
during wartime was developed in 1952 as result of input from
the American Radio Relay League and the Department of the
Army's Office of Civil Defense. During World War II, the
Amateur Radio Service had been silenced and a new War
Emergency Radio Service (WERS) had to be created from
scratch in a process that took six months.
The resulting standby RACES service was designed to provide
a quicker and smoother transition in the event the President
ever needed to silence the regular Amateur Radio Service
again when invoking the War Powers Act of 1941. Despite
many wars involving the United States since 1952, this has
never happened.
This evening we will be joined by Patrick Rogers, W5DVG,
Region Radio Officer for Region 9 and District Radio Officer for
District 12.
As always, the ARES team is ready to deploy if needed.
Thanks to everyone who is part of the team.
If you are interested in becoming a member of McLennan
County ARES, go to the
HOTARC Web site under
the frequently asked
questions and download the
application. E-mail or mail
the completed application
according to the instructions
listed at the bottom of the
application. Your application
will be processed and you
will receive an ARES ID
Card As always, the ARES
team is ready to deploy if needed. Thanks to everyone
who is part of the team!
If you are interested in becoming a member of McLennan
County ARES, go to the HOTARC Web site under the
frequently asked questions and download the application. E-
mail or mail the completed application according to the
instructions listed at the bottom of the application. Your
application will be processed and you will receive an ARES
ID Card. Check in to the Weekly McLennan County ARES
net every Monday at 8:00 PM on the 145.15 repeater (tone
123.0). If you have a sincere desire to help, registration is
necessary before the next emergency, not after it occurs. We
are also beginning to include our 70 cm repeater 442.875
MHz (input at +5.0 MHz, tone 123 Hz). Check in to the
Weekly McLennan County ARES net every Monday at 8:00
PM on the 145.15 repeater (tone 123.0). If you have a
sincere desire to help, registration is necessary before the
next emergency, not after it occurs. We are also beginning to
include our 70 cm repeater 442.875 MHz (input at +5.0 MHz,
tone 123 Hz).
The HOTLINE is the monthly new sletter of the Heart O’ Texas Amateur Radio Club (HOTARC), Inc., a nonprof it corporation, chartered by the State of Texas and
principally located in Waco. It is permissible to use any of the original material contained herein provided proper credit is given to the source.
Edited and Published by Mike Davis NA5X, mike@na5x.com
HOTARC 2021 Board of Directors
President: Seth Boren, KI5QEH
President@hotarc.org
Vice Pres: Paul Collins, KG5DHS
VicePres@hotarc.org
Secretary: Mike Davis, NA5X
Secretary@hotarc.org
Treasurer: Bill Feltenberger. KD5UEW
Treasurer@hotarc.org
Past-Pres.: Jeb Leutwyler, KG5WHS
PastPres@hotarc.org
Director (2025): Jason Fedlam, KQ5UX
Director1@hotarc.org
Director (2024): Barbara Leutwyler,
Director3@hotarc.org
Director (2023): Drew Dickenson, KE5UBO
Director2@hotarc.org
Club Repeaters
145.15 MHz (input at –600 kHz, tone 123 Hz)
146.98 MHz (input at –600 kHz, D-Star)
442.875 MHz (input at +5.0 MHz, tone 123 Hz)