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The Greene County Amateur Radio Club
meets at the new Greene county courthouse on the third Monday evening of each month at 7:00 p.m. . Just enter at the back door and turn left down the hall
to the second room on the left. We also meet the first Saturday of every month at 7:30am for breakfast at Couch's on
Linwood Drive. Everyone is invited.
The Greene County Amateur Radio Club Net meets every Tuesday on the W5BJR repeater at 8 P.M. local time. The frequency is 145.470 MHz duplex, with a negative 6 kHz offset. This is an open repeater located in Paragould, Arkansas and all licensed operators are encouraged to use it freely. The purpose of this net is to discuss and promote amateur radio and Greene County Amateur Radio Club activities. Everyone is invited and encouraged to participate in this net. Third parties are also welcome under the supervision of a licensed operator.
The Club would like to thank our community for it's support, including City Light & Water, Paragould, Arkansas, for housing our Repeater and the Officials of Greene County for providing space to hold our meetings, in the new Courthouse.
Amateur Radio is an enjoyable hobby, communicating with fellow hams, locally, as well as around the world. But our main purpose is to provide communicating service, in an emergency, to the public, as is done many times each year, in different parts of the world.
Ham radio is essential to homeland security in the United States. Our service is a dispersed and decentralized communications system that can't be shut down by terrorist attack. While public safety agencies rely on central dispatch stations, amateur radio operators can go on the air just about anywhere anytime. Hams are trained communicators with technical knowledge that prepares them to put their stations on the air at remote sites quickly, creating makeshift facilities when needed. Amateur radio operators don't have to wait for technicians to arrive to repair equipment or re-program computers. Hams can do it themselves on the fly.
Amateur radio operators have proven themselves to be essential responders in weather and other natural emergencies, and disasters of human origin. Hams can go on the air and stay on the air when ordinary public service communications fail. For many decades, ham radio often has been the only means of communicating from a stricken area to the outside world for hours and sometimes even
days.
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The Amateur's
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The Radio Amateur is:
CONSIDERATE....never
knowingly operates in such a way as to
lesson the pleasure of others.
LOYAL....offers
loyalty, encouragement and support to other
amateurs, local clubs, and the American
Radio Relay League, through which Amateur
Radio in the United States is represented
nationally and internationally.
PROGRESSIVE....with
knowledge abreast of science, a well-built
and efficient station and operation above
reproach.
FRIENDLY....slow and
patient operating when requested; friendly
advice and counsel to the beginner; kindly
assistance, cooperation and consideration
for the interests of others. These are the
hallmarks of the amateur spirit.
BALANCED....radio is
an avocation, never interfering with duties
owed to family, job, school, or community.
PATRIOTIC....station
and skill always ready for service to
country and community. |
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