A homemade emergency radio kit (2024).
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A LICENSED AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR TO ATTEND CLUB MEETINGS.
Join Us!
Monthly Meeting
Calling all Hams to the monthly meeting of the Charlotte County Amateur Radio Club. We meet monthly on the first Saturday of each month to train, plan activities, and to socialize. Amateurs of all ages and levels of experience are welcome to participate in the local activities of CCARC. In addition to a monthly meeting, we host a two-meter net meeting every third Monday at 7pm on 145.47 with a 82.5 tone.
For more information, please contact Joe KN4JTL at 808-927-8910. You may check us out on our webpage at: www.ccarconline.com or our Facebook page: Charlotte County of Amateur Radio Club.
Why Amateur Radio?
Amateur Radio operator (Hams) use two- way radio stations from their homes, cars, boats, RV’s, and outdoors to make hundreds of friends around town and around the world. They communicate with each other using voice, computers, and Morse code. Some hams bounce their signals off the upper regions of the atmosphere so they can talk with hams on the other side of the world. Other hams use satellites to make contact with other hams. Many use hand-held radios that fit in their pockets. Special events include the annul Field Day, Hamfests, Emergency Preparedness Drills and contests. You may participate in all or how many you desire.
Who would you talk to? Did you know that nearly every American Astronaut has an amateur radio license? Many take radios along on space missions and on the International Space Station to have conversations with Hams back home. Famous musicians, like Patty Loveless; celebrities like Miss America 2004; and countless others, are known to spend time behind Ham microphone or Morse Code Key. What else can you do with a license? Hams help with natural disasters. Ham operators have helped local officials in Texas and Puerto Rico when they had hurricanes and tornados. They have also help in CA with the wildfires and before that in Western NC when the hurricane went through. You may also volunteer your time with the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES). If you are interested in MARS (where hams will connect a service member to another person using a phone), you will need a General license and other requirements.
Interested in trying; but afraid that you cannot learn Morse code? Recent changes in licensing laws have opened large areas of the spectrum to operators who do not use code. Most new operators start at the Technician Class then move up to the General Class or Amateur Extra Class operator license as they are ready. No license? No problem, we can arrange for an entry level course.