Straits Area 
Amateur Radio
Club

 

Welcome to the Straits Area Amateur Radio Club Home Page. The SAARC serves the northern portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and the southeastern portion of the Upper Peninsula. We are dedicated to providing Northern Michigan with reliable emergency communications as well as supporting local community events.

The SAARC meets every third Tuesday of each month in room 106 of Petoskey High School at 7:30 P.M. We also host the Bill DeMay K8GUG Memorial Net every Monday evening at 8:00 on our repeater frequency 146.68 MHz (-) pl 110.9.

In addition, as a service to the Amateur Radio community, we provide testing for hams who wish to upgrade their licenses or for newcomers to the hobby who want to get their first ticket. Testing sessions are held throughout the year in room 106 of Petoskey High School. A fee of $14 is charged to cover the cost of testing materials.

More about the SAARC:

 

Contact the Web Editor KG8JK 

Links to other Amateur Radio Services and Interests
 

 

Radio Clubs, Etc.
Local Area Nets 
Chain -O-Lakes ARC
Top Of  Michigan ARC
Great Lakes Division 
ARRL Home Page

 

Electronic Repair
SciElectronics Repair FAQs 
The Electronics Repair Center 

 

Manufacturers 
Kenwood 
Icom
Yaesu
Alinco
Ten-Tec 
MFJ 

 

Online Magazines
Nuts and Volts
World Radio
Ham Radio Online
Antennex
Hampedia - Encyclopedia of Amateur Radio 

 

Exams and Upgrades
AA9PW's Exam Page  Online Practice Exams
Ham University - Theory & Morse Study Program
Question Pools 

 

Software & Reference
MRX - Morse Code Instruction Software
QRZ Shareware, Files, Etc.
N3FJP's Logging Software
Echolink 

 

Callsign Servers
Online Callsign Search - Buckmaster
Amateur Radio Callsign Server - U.of Buffalo
UALR Call Sign Server - U. of Arkansas
QRZ

 

Weather
Skywarn
National Weather Service - Gaylord
The Weather Channel
Intellicast

 

Frequencies
US Repeater Directory - Click on State You Want
List of Straits Area Scanner Frequencies -W8MI

 

Special Interest
Fists - CW Club
AMSAT-NA -Amateur Satellite
QSL.NET
 
PSK 31 - Keyboard to Keyboard HF
WA7BNM - Contest Calendar