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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.html
for 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 Elecraft HF QRP and FULL
Power allmode Kits The
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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.
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Our Meetings |
The TBARC participates in
the Assaults on Mt. Mitchell and and the Assault on Marion bicycle tours which
takes
place normally during the end 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 or the date of the Assaults for this year
log into the Assaults at
http://www.theassaults.com/ or 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
controlling
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 actual 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]
