Shelby Amateur Radio Club

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Shelby Amateur Radio Club

Welcome to the Shelby Amateur Radio Club's Official Website. We are an ARRL Affiliated Club. Our club has been promoting Amateur Radio in Cleveland County, Shelby, NC and the surrounding area since 1957. We host one of the largest hamfest (Amateur Radio Convention) in the South, The Shelby Hamfest. The proceeds from this event go towards upkeep of our six repeaters and donations to local and deserving charities. We also sponsor the local Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) Group. This group provides aid to the local Emergency Management officials and to the Red Cross and other served agencies.

If you are an amateur radio operator, we hope you will come out and join us at our club meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of each month (except December) at the Red Cross Building in Shelby, NC. 1333 Fallston Rd, Shelby NC 28150

We're glad you are visiting our website and invite you to our club meetings in 2022.

Dues Information

For Information on how to JOIN - CLICK HERE

$10.00 Initiation - $20.00 yearly dues ($10.00 Discount for ARRL Members) $10.00 Family ($5.00 Discount for ARRL Members)

** A new dues structure was voted on at the November 2017 meeting, please contact secretary@shelbyhamfest.org for more information regarding this dues structure **

If you have a 10-20 minute program you would like to present during one of our club meetings please email secretary@shelbyhamfest.org.

Russell Hayes, KE4GTQ - President

Ben Melvin, KM4C - Vice President
Greg Horne, WA4YBP - 2nd Vice President
Susan Ledford, K4ZXN - Secretary
Wanda Horne, KI4ZEI - Treasurer

Learn more about our HISTORY & IN MEMORIUM CALLSIGNS (received prior to 2011)

What is Amateur Radio?

Watch the Video

How can I become a ham radio operator? Click here for helpful links on becoming a licensed amateur radio operator.

To join our club, you must first be licensed. Several members of our club are Volunteer Examiners. A test session can be arranged, please email secretary@shelbyhamfest.org with your phone number and we will see that a VE Team Member gets back in touch with you as soon as they can.

For information on our regularly scheduled VE test sessons please click here!

We are involved in ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service), Transmitter Hunting, Public Service event communications, Elmering new amateur radio operators; Parks on the Air and many other aspects of amateur radio.

Annual Shelby Hamfest Sponsor

Donates to local deserving Charities

Volunteers time and equipment to local Emergency Management

The Shelby Hamfest is held every Labor Day Weekend and is held at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in Shelby, NC. Thanks again for visiting our site and hope to see you at a meeting or Hamfest! The proceeds from the hamfest are used to maintain our multiple repeaters, equipment and are used for donations to local deserving charities in and around the Cleveland, Gaston and Rutherford county area. For More information a pertaining to the Hamfest, CLICK HERE

REPEATER , NETS & PUBLIC SERVICE INFO

Activities

REPEATER & NET INFO

Monday & Friday
146.880 (-) @ 8:30PM
4th Monday Traders Net after Reg. Net

Sunday Prayer Net
146.880 (-) @ 8:00PM

Wednesday Good Ideas Net
147.345 (+) @ 7:00 PM

DSTAR (When repeater is back up)
145.080 (+1.4Mhz) & REF54C @ 9:00PM

If you would like to call a net contact
Al Whatley, N4HAW - Net Manager

Our Club has six (6) repeaters and a packet station on the air.

146.880 (-)

147.345 (+)

444.325 (+)

224.060 (-)

DSTAR REPEATERS

145.080 (+ 1.4 Mhz)

444.1875 (+)

Please feel free to use our repeaters.

Echo-Link

Connect to 146.880 via Echo-link by connect to KM4C-R

ACTIVITIES

Throughout the year, in addition to our annual Shelby Hamfest, we participate in educational, public service events and other activities.

ARES of Cleveland County is sponsored by our club and participates with the Shelby Amateur Radio Club in Emergency Management Drills; Health Department Drills; Red Cross events; Races and other events.

We also participate in Parks on the Air - 2 of our club callsigns (W4NYR & K4KUT) are registered with Parks on the Air for our members to use during their Park Activations.

Transmitter Hunting is also an event our members participate in. Think of it as High Tech Hide-N-Seek with the purpose of learning to hone in on signals.

We also demonstrate Amateur Radio to the public through participation in ARRL Field Day each year and when asked by Boy and Girl Scout Troops or schools, we will demonstrate amateur radio for them.

CONTACT US

General INFO

Address

PO Box 2206

Shelby, NC 28151-2206

secretary@shelbyhamfest.org

Phone

email secretary@shelbyhamfest.org for phone number