AMATEUR RADIO CLUBS
AROUND THIS AREA
NEARBY CLUBS IN TENNESSEE ARE LISTED
FIRST, THEN NEARBY CLUBS IN OTHER STATES (see below):
The West Tennessee
Amateur Radio Society in Jackson, Tennessee is dedicated to advancement and
growth of the Amateur Radio service, and usually meets every first Thursday of each month except for July 2012 (meeting will be on
the second Thursday at 6 PM in Catfish Cabin Restaurant). The
meetings usually start around 7 PM in
the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) office inside the FAA building at the
McKellar-Sipes Airport, 308 Grady Montgomery Drive in Jackson, Tennessee. Occasionally,
some meetings are scheduled for different days or locations, such as in local
area restaurants. All meetings are open to the public, and visitors are
welcome. You can e-mail [email protected] for more information about
meeting times, locations, VE testing, etc. Current dues are around $24 per
year. For more general information about WTARS such as repeater frequencies, see
http://www.wtars.org, http://www.qsl.net/wtarc/index.htm,
and http://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Tennessee-Amateur-Radio-Society/160957104057?ref=ts
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/west-tennessee-amateur-radio-society/type:club.
(Note sent from FEMA for people in
“disaster areas”: disaster survivors can
apply online at http://www.DisasterAssistance.Gov,
or call 1-800-621-FEMA, which is 1-800-621-3362).
The Crockett County Amateur Radio Society, along with other
groups, operates radio repeaters in the area. The WT4WA repeater is on 146.970
MHz, - Offset, tone 107.2 Hz. The primary simplex
frequency is 146.535 MHz. They usually have on-the-air nets every Thursday
nights at 7 PM on the K4DYR repeater (see next
paragraph below). They usually meet at 7 PM on the second Thursday night of each month, usually in the Crockett
County EMA building, 168 N. Bells St. in Alamo, Tennessee. They plan to offer
the ARRL Amateur Radio License exams
approximately every three or four months (14 July 2012, 13 October 2012, and 12 January 2013) at the Crockett County
EMA Office, 168 North Bells Ave., Alamo, TN 38001.
For more information, e-mail [email protected] or see http://www.crockettcoars.org
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/crockett-county-amateur-rado-society/type:club.
The Dyer County Amateur Radio Association, along with other groups,
operates radio repeaters in the area. The K4DYR repeater at Spring Hill,
Tennessee is on 145.190 MHz, - Offset, tone 100.0 Hz. They
meet on the first Saturday of
each month at 10 AM in the Dyer County Rescue Squad building in Newbern,
Tennessee. (Directions: turn on Sharpsferry Rd.
beside the Dollar Store on Hwy. 77 West in Newbern. Travel approximately 300
ft., then turn left at the sign by the Dyer County Rescue, Phillip Pinion
Building.) For more information, e-mail [email protected] or see http://www.dyercountyamateurradio.com/
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/dyer-county-amateur-radio-association/type:club.
The Chester County Ham Radio Club operates radio repeaters in Henderson,
Tennessee. The VHF repeater is on 147.105 MHz, + Offset, tone
156.7 Hz. The UHF repeater is on 444.750 MHz, + Offset, tone
100 Hz. They usually meet at 6 PM on the third Monday night of every third month,
usually in the Pinson Church of Christ, 4082 Highway 45 South, Pinson, TN
38366. Occasionally, some meetings are held at various area restaurants or
elsewhere. VE amateur radio license testing is done regularly in the Henderson Fire
Station training room at 505 Sanford Street in Henderson, Tennessee. For more
information, see http://www.w4fhu.org and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/freed-hardeman-university-arc/type:club
or e-mail [email protected]. Also see http://w4fhu.org/swap-n-shop.html
to see more about “For Sale” items.
The Haywood County Amateur Radio Group operates radio repeaters in
the Brownsville, Tennessee area. The VHF
repeater is on 146.655 MHz, - Offset, tone 156.7 Hz. The UHF repeater is on
444.525 MHz, + Offset, with no tone. For more information see http://home.comcast.net/~ki4bxi/site/
and http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_129414277084953&ref=ts.
The Lauderdale County Amateur Radio Club usually meets on the second Tuesday of each month at
7 PM in the Baptist Memorial Hospital Lauderdale, 326 Asbury Ave., Ripley,
Tennessee. For more information, contact KG4IBV, Samuel W. Fitzpatrick at
731-635-7742, e-mail [email protected], or see http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/lauderdale-county-amateur-radio-club/type:club.
The Tipton Amateur Radio Society was formed in January of 1990 in
Herb Harrington’s garage ham shack. Located in Covington, Tennessee, they
participate in A.R.E.S. (Amateur Radio Emergency Service), R.A.C.E.S. (Radio
Amateur Civil Emergency Service) and M.A.R.S. (Military Affiliate Radio
Service). They also offer VE amateur radio license testing on the first
Saturday of every quarter at the Atoka City Hall (for other VE testing
locations see http://www.members.tripod.com/tarswebsite/tarswebsite/WCARS_Sched.html). Meetings are usually held on the third Monday of each month at the Atoka City Hall, 400 Atoka
Munford Road, Atoka, Tennessee, at 7 PM. Their A.R.E.S. Net is held every
Thursday evening at 7 PM on the KE4ZBI VHF repeater (145.490 MHz, - Offset).
For more information about the club, send a letter to the Tipton Amateur Radio
Society, 321 East Church Avenue, Covington, TN 38019, or see http://www.members.tripod.com/tarswebsite/tarswebsite
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/tipton-amateur-radio-society/type:club.
The Reelfoot Amateur Radio Club usually meets on the fourth Thursday of each month.
They usually meet at 6:30 PM in the Obion County Public Library, 1221 East
Reelfoot Ave. (Hwy. 431), in Union City, Tennessee. See http://www.reelfootarc.com/index.html
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/reelfoot-arc/type:club
to see their websites. For general information or VE testing contact Glenn
Snow, N4MJ (731-479-1971) or see http://www.reelfootarc.com/news.html.
The Mid South VHF Association in
Paris, Tennessee meets on the air with their net on 144.250 MHz SSB on the first and third Monday of each
month, as well as other activities. For more information, contact Dennis J. Wieck, N4ZKR, at [email protected] (Daytime 731-363-4997 or
Evening 731-641-8188) or see http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/mid-south-vhf-association/type:club.
The Decatur County Amateur Radio
Club meets at 7 PM on the second
Monday of each month at the Decatur County EOC building, 66 West Second
Street in Parsons, Tennessee. For more club information see http://decaturarc.org/index.php. They
have regular VE amateur radio license testing (see http://decaturarc.org/licensing.php).
They also have a training net on the Decaturville
repeater every Thursday night at 7 PM (443.325 MHz, + Offset, tone 131.8 Hz),
and see http://decaturarc.org/ota.htm
for other repeater frequencies. Also see http://decaturarc.org/swapshop.htm
for a list of items for sale or trade.
The Amateur Radio Club Hohenwald meets
at 3 PM on the last Sunday of
every other month at the Tennessee Technology Center building in Hohenwald,
Tennessee. The club has bi-monthly meetings, participates in Field Day, School
Club Roundup, Skywarn Training, and regular VE
amateur radio license testing. The weekly Skywarn
Training Net is on the 146.895 MHz repeater (- Offset, tone 100 Hz) on Thursday
nights at 8 PM. The club also uses the Lewis County Starnet
Repeater on 444.850 MHz (+ Offset, tone 100 Hz) for some activities. For more
information see http://www.k4ttc.org/ and http://www.facebook.com/K4TTC and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/ttc-arch-amateur-radio-club-hohenwald/type:club.
The Delta Amateur Radio Club meets on the second Tuesday of each month around 7 PM at the Ellendale Church
of Christ, located at 7365 Highway 70 (known as "Summer Avenue" in Memphis).
The DARC offers the ARRL Amateur Radio License
exams (no reservations needed) before each club meeting at the Ellendale
Church of Christ, with registration beginning at 5:30 PM and testing beginning promptly
at 6:00 PM. You MUST bring some type of identification to the testing session.
You also MUST bring originals, as well as a copy, of any license and/or CSCE
that you may hold currently. The testing fees are $15.00. Scheduled VE testing dates in 2012 are 14 August, 11 September, 9
October, and 13 November (no testing in December). For more information
about the DARC in general, send a letter to the Delta Amateur Radio Club, P.O.
Box 342768, Memphis, TN 38184-2768, or see http://www.deltaclub.org
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/delta-arc/type:club.
For more information about the DARC's ARRL Amateur Radio License exams, contact
Bill Stevens, WC9S (901-603-3448 or [email protected]). Also see the DARC
Buy-Sell-Trade webpage at http://www.deltaclub.org/swap_shop.html.
The Mid-South Amateur Radio Association meets on the first Thursday of each month
around 7 PM at the Northeast Police Precinct (Appling Farms Station) located at
6850 Whitten Bend Cove, Memphis, TN 38133. For more information about MARA in
general, see http://sites.google.com/a/maraonline.org/mara-online
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/mid-south-ara/type:club
or contact Tony Brignole (901-372-2738 or [email protected])
or Lance Morris ([email protected]). (MARA also offers an "Elmer
Net" on Monday evenings around 9 PM on the 147.030 MHz repeater as a place
to learn something new or to get answers for ham radio questions.)
The Tri-State Repeater Association (originally called the
Mid-South VHF Association in the Memphis area during the 1970’s) operates several
repeaters on 6 meters, 2 meters, 1.25 meters, and 70 centimeters covering parts
of West Tennessee, North Mississippi, and Eastern Arkansas. They have regular
meetings at the Baptist Memorial Hospital on 1500 West Poplar in Collierville,
Tennessee (look for “meetings” on http://www.tristateradio.org/). Also see For Sale &Trade items under “sell-trade” on
their website. They are on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/tristate.repeater?ref=profile.
NORTH MISSISSIPPI CLUBS:
The Alcorn County Radio Emergency Services meets on the first Saturday of each month at
9 AM in the Corinth/Alcorn County Airport Terminal Building in Corinth,
Mississippi. The amateur radio club has Skywarn
activities and VE amateur radio license testing. See http://acares.reiselt.com/ and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/alcorn-county-ares-acares/type:club
for more information.
The Chickasaw Amateur Radio Association meets on the third Monday of each month at 7
PM in the Desoto County Emergency
Services building, 365 Losher Street, Suite 120,
Hernando, MS 38632. They offer VE amateur radio license testing at 6 PM before
the meeting. They also have a Desoto County
Emergency Training and Information Net on the 146.91 repeater every Monday
night at 8:30 PM. For more information, see http://www.qsl.net/w5gwd/. Also see their
list of repeaters for North Mississippi and Southwest Tennessee at http://www.qsl.net/w5gwd/repeaters.htm.
The Northeast Mississippi Radio Amateurs meet on the second Tuesday of each month in
the EOC (Emergency Operations Center) building in Fulton, Mississippi (6 PM to eat
and 7 PM for the actual meeting). They offer various activities for DX,
Contests, CW, SSB, satellites, Field Day, ARES, and APRS. For more information,
see http://www.w5nem.org/ and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/northeast-mississippi-radio-amateurs/type:club.
The Northwest Mississippi Amateur Radio Emergency Service serves
Coahoma, Desoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate, and Tunica
Counties in Mississippi, but it is technically not a radio club. For more
information see http://www.qsl.net/nmecc/aresmain.htm.
They have lots of interesting links on their main page related to Southwest
Tennessee and Northern Mississippi. Also see the article for “Battery Power” at
http://www.qsl.net/nmecc/EMC198Batteries.htm.
The Olive Branch Amateur Radio Club meets on the third Tuesday of each month at
the Fairhaven Volunteer Fire Dept., 13701 Center Hill Rd., Olive Branch,
Mississippi (6 PM for VE testing and 7 PM for the actual meeting). For more
information, see http://www.qsl.net/w5obm/
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/olive-branch-arc/type:club.
The Sundancer Solar Radio Club meets on
the third Monday of each
month at 6 PM in the Chickasaw EMA Office in Houston, Mississippi. For more
information, contact Gary P. Naron, KD5HDO, (Daytime 662-542-8647
or Evening 662-456-2229, email [email protected]) or see http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/sundancer-solar-radio-club/type:club.
The Tippah Amateur Radio Association meets on the second Tuesday of each month at
7 PM in the Tippah County EOC (Emergency Operations Center) building in Ripley,
Mississippi. The EOC is located on the grounds of the Tippah County Hospital,
directly across the side street from Stone’s Jewelry, all at the intersection
of Highway 15 North and North Main Street. For more information, email [email protected], or see http://www.tippahara.org/ and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/tippah-amateur-radio-association/type:club.
The Tishomingo County Amateur Radio Club meets on the first Saturday of each month at
7 PM in “Ed’s One Stop” of Tishomingo, Mississippi. For more information, call Clifford A. Wiginton, WB5BSG
(Daytime 601-287-3771 or Evening 601-427-8880) or see
http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/tishomingo-county-arc/type:club.
The Tupelo Amateur Radio Club meets on the third Thursday of each month at the Tupelo Regional Airport in
the old terminal building (6 PM to eat and 7 PM for the actual meeting). Their
146.64 MHz repeater covers North Mississippi and Southwest Tennessee, and their
website is http://www.tupeloarc.org/.
See http://www.tupeloarc.org/nems%20repeaters.htm
for a list of other North Mississippi repeaters. They also offer quarterly VE
amateur radio license testing, so see http://www.tupeloarc.org/articles.htm.
The University of Mississippi [Ole
Miss] Amateur Radio Club meets on the first Monday of each month at the Baptist
Memorial Hospital (Conference Room near Cafeteria), 2301 South Lamar Blvd.,
Oxford, MS 38655. For more information, including VE amateur radio license
testing, see http://www.w5ums.org/ and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/university-of-mississippi-amateur-radio/type:club.
EAST ARKANSAS CLUBS:
The Cross County Amateur Radio Club
meets on the third Thursday
of each month at 7 PM at the Cross Ridge Community Hospital (Cafeteria) in
Wynne, Arkansas. They also offer VE amateur radio license testing (see http://www.qsl.net/crosscarc/vetesting.html).
For more information, contact Terry Busby, W5ARS, at [email protected] or [email protected] (870-588-4800 after 6
PM). For the club website, see http://www.qsl.net/crosscarc/
and http://www.arrl.org/Groups/view/cross-county-amateur-radio-club/type:club.
OTHER:
Although not actually a radio club, Allen McClain (KA4BNI)
certainly does more work than most amateur radio clubs. He operates and
maintains several amateur radio repeaters in the West Tennessee area. For more
information see http://www.ka4bni.com/.
The South-Eastern Repeater Association (SERA) coordinates repeater
frequencies in the South-Eastern United States. For more information see http://www.sera.org/.
NOTE: The Amateur Radio
License exams do not require any Morse Code
tests! However, the exams
do cover basic electronics and radio theory thoroughly. For ARRL VE amateur radio license exams,
see http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/pools.html
for details about the most current question pools. When you are ready to take
the exam(s), see http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml
to locate an ARRL testing session location nearby, anywhere in the United
States. See http://www.arrl.org/hamfests.html
to search for "hamfests" anywhere in the United States. The W5YI VE amateur radio license exams are
given in Trenton, Tennessee, as well as other cities in this area. For
information about people giving the W5YI Amateur Radio License exams, see http://www.w5yi.org/exam_locations_ama.php.
Here are several websites
where you can practice for amateur radio license exams:
http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2010/06/technician-class-practice-test-gadget.html
http://www.hamradioclass.org
(This website was not working on 9 July 2012)
http://www.hamtestonline.com
($20.00 for 10 hours of practice)
Business Endorsement from
KB4RPV: Thanks to Robin
Wood, WA4YGM, of Wood Electronics in Union City for his help locating a
second-hand Rohn tower house bracket for me. Wood
Electronics has a LARGE amount of second-hand Rohn tower
and parts of different sizes covering about an acre in total! There are so many
tower parts that it might take them a few days to find specific parts. Wood
Electronics also has a number of NEW mobile amateur radio antennas for sale, as
well as other ham-radio-related parts. In addition, they have a number of directional,
high-gain, UHF antennas suitable for digital TV reception. Wood Electronics is
located at 417 West Reelfoot Ave. in Union City, Tennessee (800-489-4792).
This page was last updated
on 9 July 2012 by KB4RPV, but it is always under construction.
If there are any typos or
factual errors on this page, please e-mail kb4rpv @ att.net
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