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Welcome
to Polk County, North Carolina
The Thermal Belt Amateur Radio
Club
(TBARC)
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Nestled in the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Mountains
in Western North Carolina
Please feel free to visit our main
home page that is updated all the time.
This site gets updated two times a
year.
Go to www.polkcounty.org/ham/ham.htmlfor
the HAM page
or to www.polkcounty.org to learn more about our
neck of the woods!
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Visit our club's solar powered
repeater The Thermal Belt Two Meter Net The KF4JVI Repeater is an open repeater. The KF4JVI Repeater is totally solar powered. |
An ARRL Affiliated Club
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
(ARES)
Providing emergency
communications throughout
Polk County, North Carolina in times of any
disaster.
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Join the SKYWARN SPOTTER SYSTEM
Anyone may be a spotter, you do not have to be a Amateur Radio Operator to be one. All that is required is to find out where you have to go to take the class given by the fine folks from the Greenville / Spartanburg National Weather Service and then join in on all of the actions as it happens! Please feel free to contact us for information on the next class.
| Atlanta Area
APRS Home Page Using Amateur Radio Communications to assist in tracking storm chasers doing their job tracking the storms and other sever weather. Call Sign Lookup SGC's
SG-2020 Elecraft HF QRP allmode Kit Lake
View Antenna Company The
Wireman News Line Website |
The Hendersonville Area
Club
Spartanburg Amateur Radio Club Large Selection of Links to check out. HAM Swap / Forsale / Trade Page |
| Go to QSL.net and do a web page! |
Our Club Meetings
All hams are welcome to
attend one or both of the following meetings.
Feel free to bring friends as
well as encourage other would be hams
to attend the meetings to learn more
about this fantastic hobby.
| The Day Time Meeting:
The Thermal Belt Amateur Radio Club holds a luncheon meeting on the Last Wednesday of the month at "Kudzu's" Restaurant in Tryon, NC. This is located on US-176 south of downtown. Meeting starts at 11:45 and lunch and meeting is usually over by 1:30 p.m. |
The Night Time Meeting:
The Thermal Belt Amateur Radio Club meets locally on the Third Thursday Evening of the month at the United Methodist Church in Columbus NC, starting at 7:30 PM. We try to have a program or demonstration of some type at the evening meetings. |
The TBARC participates in the Assaults on Mt. Mitchell and and the Assault on Marion bicycle tours which takes place normally on the Third Saturday of May each year. TBARC provide emergency radio communications while the riders are riding through Polk County. However, the Spartanburg Amateur Radio Club provides the remainder of the HAMS require for this event. If you would like additional information on the Assaults - follow the link to The Assaults at www.polkcounty.org.
You may listen on your scanner to the event on one of these frequencies: 145.330, 147.285, 145.190 and 147.240 MHz. The first two frequencies are used from Spartanburg to Bills Creek Road at US-74 in Rutherford County. This includes all of Polk County. The second is the Mt. Mitchell repeater and it is active all day and well into the evening controling and relaying traffic concerning this very large event. The last is a simplex motorcycle to motorcycle frequency, and is low power so you would have to be near the motorcycle to hear them.
The TBARC also participates and helps sponsor the Fabulous 4th of July Metric Century Bicycle Tour here in Polk County, NC . This event takes place on the acutal day of the 4th of July each year regardless of the weather. We provide all of the emergency radio communications for this event. If you would like additional information on the Fabulous 4th Bicycle event - follow the link The Fabulous 4th. You will be able to monitor this event on your scanner on either of two frequencies: 145.330 or 147.285.
The TBARC assist with the various horse events in Polk County's Hunting County. Among some of these events are the Block House Steeplechase and the Carriage Club Marathon events.
Email us at [email protected]
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