Membership
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Want to learn how to become a licensed amateur radio operator? Click this link. In addition, if you want to join the Hellgate Amateur Radio Club you may fill out the application membership and send it to the address below.
Contributions and Membership Dues Provide Many Benefits
Dues and contributions allow maintenance and funding of over a half dozen VHF/UHF repeaters plus emergency and portable repeaters.These provide wide-area coverage for emergency, public service, club events and routine communications for all VHF/UHF ham radio operators. Additionally, HARC maintains portable and fixed HF communications equipment (radios, portable tower and antennas) for emergency, public service, and the numerous radio communication events held throughout the year. Monthly Newsletter, hard copy mailed to your postal address, and monthly meetings to enjoy and interchange information with assistance, advice and encouragement (we call it "Elmering") with your antenna projects and/or radio operation. Free assistance for amateur radio license renewal.
Consider joining the American Radio Relay League
Reasons to Support the ARRL by W7DHB, Dennis
"You may have heard about the power companies (with FCC approval) proposing
and now installing Broadband RF transmission of broadband signals over power
lines (BPL) in the HF bands. In addition, it is being supported by the FCC
because they were sold a bill of goods by the power companies about the
commercial benefits, but without adequate testing. Think about
it. The entire nation would be surrounded with antennas radiating a broad
spectrum of noise on the amateur bands. Tests by the ARRL and amateur
clubs have been evaluating the interference, which is in violation of the own
FCC rules, but he FCC and the power companies are ignoring the data. The
only organization fighting this with solid data and efforts, besides fighting to
keep our frequencies, is the ARRL, our amateur organization. We must support
this effort, and the minimum we should be doing is by joining the ARRL
if you haven't already, and even sending in additional dollars to support the
lobbying in Washington. There are important benefits to those who are ARRL
members. 1) If our membership is over 50%, the club receives
special discounts for training and educational material for the club use, and
allows us to retain our Special Service Club recognition for public
service. 2) Just a few advantages of being an ARRL
Affiliated Club are: Liability and Equipment Insurance
--Referrals of prospective Radio Amateurs
--ARRL Club Stationery
--Commissions to clubs that submit ARRL
membership applications
--Mailing Lists/Labels
--Library sets of ARRL Publications
--50% discount on Club Ads in ARRL
publications including QST.In addition, The ARRL Publication, QST, provides
schedules of upcoming events, code practice at various speeds, advice on
equipment and antenna problems, equipment reviews, antenna designs, amateur
radio ads, etc., etc., etc. In summary, by joining the ARRL, you are
supporting a wide variety of important programs to help maintain and expand the
radio amateur hobby as well as the Hellgate Amateur Radio Club.
Click for more info at ARRL.org
73's. W7DHB