Do you like gain?  Reports of ORARC bucket hat wearers exhibiting 3dB gain have been received, and whilst technically dubious you really don’t have much to lose ($15) to find out for yourself… 🙂

Yellow bucket hats embroidered with the club logo are available for sale to members at the very reasonable price of, you guessed it, $15 each.

The hats come in two sizes suitable for adults.  One is S/M (56cm) and the other is L/XL (59cm).  The measurement is the circumference of the wearer’s head that the hat is designed to fit.

To order a hat please email the club secretary Henry VK2ZHE and advise your hat size.  The hats are supplied and embroidered to order.  Please allow 4 weeks for delivery.

The ORARC 41st annual Field Day will be held on Saturday and Sunday the 11th and 12th of June 2016 during the June 2016 Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend.  Visitors are cordially invited to attend.  The venue is the newly refurbished Tacking Point Surf Life Saving Club Hall in Matthew Flinders Drive, Lighthouse Beach, Port Macquarie.

There will be all the usual Field Day attractions with fox hunts both days, disposals; bring your items to sell, no commission charged, barbeque lunch both days with bacon and egg breakfast available on the Sunday morning.  Sunday is the trading day.  The Field Day dinner is at 6 pm on the Saturday night at the Port Macquarie Golf Club with a menu to suit all tastes.

Please see the event info page here for more information and download your copy of the Program for the field day here.

We look forward to seeing all of you in June!

May Oxtales has been released!

Our regular thanks to John VK2AYQ and Trevor VK2TT for another excellent read – and thank you to all contributors.

Members should now have received their copy by email, but website copies of the current and past editions can always be found here.

Following on the original post regarding the Red and White stickers, Stuart VK2FSTU adds:

This is the other decal for your car window, very dark blue with gold writing, that gives us two to choose from, and at $5.00 each it will give the club some funds as well, which goes back to helping us members in the long run.  If you want one, please try to have the right monetary amount when purchasing as I don’t carry change.  I’ll have both the white and red, and the blue and gold at the next Saturday Club General Meeting.

I can confirm that both the white & red and the (very) dark blue (almost black) & gold stickers look fabulous in the flesh and are well made and well printed.  Definitely a quality product.  Nice work Stuart! – Paul, VK2ICQ

Stuart VK2FSTU writes:

I have a car sticker in red on white background – will have Black and Gold soon, but these are available to club members for $4.00 each and other clubs and public for $5.00 each.  I will have them at the next club meeting and at the Field Day in June.  Please try to have the correct change available.  There is a profit to be made by sale of these for our club, while never large, it’s an addition and not subtraction of funds.