Homebrew Night Meetings

2025-04-09 Homebrew Night April 9th

2025-02-22
Joannadanna

IN-PERSON Meeting on Wednesday, April 09, 2025 @ 6:45 PM ET

Photo by Blaz Erzetic on Unsplash

Meeting details

Bring your “homebrewed” hardware / software projects, DIY apparatus, and home-made gear to Homebrew Night, our annual show-and-tell evening on April 9th. We will celebrate your accomplishments and hear tales of your successes and lessons learned. And there are awards!

Why is Homebrew Night so important?

  • Building your own amateur-radio equipment is frugal and satisfying. 
  • Telling other OARC members about your project is fun and offers an opportunity for discussion, technical questions and answers, and suggestions for how to address challenges.
  • Homebrew Night is a key part of your amateur-radio training: it is first and foremost about experimentation, development of technical skills, problem solving.
  • You can win an award based on a panel of judges (The Clare Fowler Award) or a show of hands (the People’s Choice Award) 

How exactly does Homebrew Night work?

  • Perhaps you have some ideas about a DIY project or piece of home-made gear you’d like to attempt?
  • Build it in time for the April 9th Homebrew Night, register at the link below, and bring it along.
  • Prepare about 5 minutes of remarks:
    • Explain what you did
    • Highlight any particular successes or lessons learned that you experienced along the way
    • Finish with one piece of advice you think anyone attempting this project should consider

What can I bring?

  • Any home-built, non-commercial amateur radio equipment.
  • Unfinished projects are welcome; tell us what you’ve done so far.
  • It doesn’t have to be complex, fancy, or elaborate, just something that you have done and want others to know about.
  • Don’t forget: OARC can provide you with ideas, plans and a parts list. Then you get the bits and pieces and build it.
  • It can also be from a kit you build at an OARC kit-building session.

To allow us to arrange seating and bring in an appropriate quantity of refreshments, please register for this meeting (it’s free!) using the button below. The ticketing system will also ask you if you are presenting a project at Homebrew Night so please answer Yes or No by 5:00pm on Friday, March 28th. We need to know so we can be sure there is enough time for everyone to present.

Click this button to get a FREE ticket to the meeting.

This button takes you to Eventbrite, a secure online ticketing system. Learn more.1

Please join us in person at Scouts Headquarters for this event. There will be an unattended (view only) Zoom feed for the Homebrew portion for those who cannot attend in person. Subscribers to OARC email notices will receive an email with information on how to watch the Zoom feed. If you are not a subscriber, you WILL NOT receive the email notice.

Meeting location is Scouts Headquarters (SHQ)

Scout Headquarters is at 1345 Baseline Road, Ottawa. Parking is free in the SHQ lot.

Non-members are always welcome but please reserve a spot by using the big, blue button above to get a FREE ticket to the meeting. Subscribe at https://oarc.net/subscribe/ and you will receive all OARC notices automatically.

  1. Eventbrite is an online ticketing system that the OARC uses to track attendance for free events. No financial information is collected. ↩︎

Last Updated on 2025-03-17 by Joannadanna