AMATEUR RADIO NEWS
Amateur Radio Club
Meetings, "Hamfests," & License Exams
The West Tennessee Amateur Radio Society is dedicated to
advancement and growth of the Amateur Radio service, and usually meets every first Thursday of each month.
The meetings usually start
about 7 PM at
The FHU/Chester County Ham Radio Club operates radio repeaters in
The Reelfoot Amateur Radio Club meets on the fourth Thursday of
each month. They usually meet at 6:30 PM in the Obion
County Public Library,
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 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 for 2009 are $15.00. Scheduled testing
dates are 8 September 2009, 13 October 2009, and 17 November 2009. For more information about the DARC in general, e-mail kd4tjo@arrl.net
or go to http://www.deltaclub.org. For more information about the DARC's
ARRL Amateur Radio License exams, contact Thomas E. Fox, KA4LWQ (901-357-1663
or ka4lwq@arrl.net).
The Mid-South Amateur Radio Association meets on the third
Thursday of each month around 7 PM at the Northeast Police Precinct (Appling
Farms Station) located at the 6850 Appling Farms Parkway. For
more information about MARA in general, go to http://sites.google.com/a/maraonline.org/mara-online,
or contact Bill Hudock, KB4SQV (901-753-8020 or kb4sqv@bellsouth.net)
or Keith Price, WA5LPW (ham@wa5lpw.com or kprice2982@yahoo.com). (MARA also offers an "Elmer Net" on Monday
evenings at 9:00 PM on the 147.030 MHz repeater as a place to learn something
new or to get answers for ham radio questions.)
The W5YI Amateur Radio
License exams are occasionally given in
NOTE: The Amateur Radio
License exams do not require any Morse Code tests! However, the exams do cover basic electronics and radio
theory thoroughly. Go to http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/pools.html
for details about the most current question pools. When
you are ready to take the exam(s), go to http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml
to locate an ARRL testing session location nearby, anywhere in the
Other Special Events
Please send e-mail about any regularly-scheduled amateur radio
club meetings, "hamfests," license testing, and any ham-radio-related
special events in the
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Updated 30 October 2009,
kb4rpv@arrl.net