2020 Shelby Amateu Radio Club - Cleveland County, Shelby, North Carolina - Shelby Amateur Radio Club

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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 Cleveland County 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.

We're glad you are visiting our website and invite you to our club meetings in 2021.

Dues Information

$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.

Todd Vickery, WA4TV - President
Russell Hayes, KE4GTQ - Vice President
Greg Horne, WA4YBP - 2nd Vice President
Susan Ledford, K4ZXN - Secretary
Wanda Horne, KI4ZEI - Treasurer

NET Information

We would love for you to visit us at club meetings & check into our net!

Monday & Friday
146.880 (-)
@ 8:30PM

Sunday

Prayer Net
146.880 (-)
@ 8:00PM

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

4th Monday (Following regular net)

Traders Net

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

Repeater Information

Our Club has six (6) repeaters and a packet station on the air.
We have (2) 2 Meter analog repeaters 146.880 (-) & 147.345 (+), (1) 440 mhz analog repeater 444.325 (+), (1) 220 mhz analog repeater 224.060 (-), (1) 2 meter D-Star repeater 145.080 (+ 1.4 Mhz), (1) 440 mhz D-Star repeater 444.1875 (+). Please feel free to use our repeaters.

Echo-Link

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

Members please support our nets by blessing us with your participation int he Nets listed above. We would also love to have any amateur radio operator check in with us !

Important Dates

2021 Meeting Schedule

2nd Tuesday of Each month at the Red Cross Building (1333 Fallston Rd) in Shelby, NC

June 26, 2021 - ARRL Field Day with Cleveland County ARES/Auxcomm - 2PM
Cleveland County Fairground Fire Station

July 13, 2021 Meeting will be at 7PM at the Old Red Cross Building

Members Please be come out and volunteer for upcoming jobs at the hamfest.

August 10, 2021 - 7PM - Old Red Cross Building

September 14, 2021 - 7PM - Old Red Cross Building

October 12, 2021 - 7PM - Old Red Cross Building

November 9, 2021 - 7PM - Old Red Cross Building

December - TBA - Christmas Party/Meeting

We would love to have you visit our meetings!
We offer testing at our club meeting through WCARS VE. $10.00

If you are interested in Testing, please email us prior to the club meeting at secretary@shelbyhamfest.org

If interested in attending a meeting, please email secretary@shelbyhamfest.org.

In order to join, you must attend a meeting and then apply for membership, to be voted on at the next meeting.

Other Important Dates

Field Day is the Fourth Full Weekend in June
More information will come as it is verified.

Marking Days for Hamfest are August 27th & 28th
Land Rush Sunday is August 29th

Shelby Hamfest is September 3, 4, & 5

Members of Shelby Amateur Radio Club are not eligible to buy Shelby Hamfest tickets or to win any Shelby Hamfest Prizes.