St. Mary's County Amateur Radio Association

Learn a little about the hobby

First, you need to learn a little about the hobby and find out how to get a license!

Click [ HERE ] to link to a special section of the ARRL (The National Association for AMATEUR RADIO) called "Hello"... Celebrating 100 years of Voice over Radio Worldwide.  There, you will find everything you will need to understand what this hobby is all about and where to get information about licensing.

Of course,  when you are done, come back here to our site and we will help you with everything you will need to participate in ham radio activities here in Southern Maryland.

If the video player is visible (below), double click on the play ( ►) button to watch a short, 4-minute movie.  If you can NOT see the flash video player, your firewall setting for Active X is too stringent and you are incorrectly blocking web media you should be able to see.

So, What are you waiting for!  GET CONNECTED with Amateur Radio today!

Emergency Preparedness

Interested in seeing how the SMCARA gets involved with emergency preparedness?  Here is a short movie that we made to give you an idea of what we do.  Double click on the play (►) button below the video screen to see a short movie about our Field Day activities.  If you can NOT see the flash video player, your firewall setting for Active X is too stringent and you are incorrectly blocking web media you should be able to see.  You can adjust the sound level using the slider below the screen...

NOTE:  This video is 6.3 Mbytes in size and is best viewed using a Broad-band (Cable, DSL) Internet connection.  Dial-up users can view the video if they wait for it to load (may take a few minutes).  Load status can be viewed by watching the data bar located just above the video player controls.

Emergency Communications

The ARRL launched a new web site dedicated to emergency communications.  Click [ here ] to take a look.