The June Ham Club Meeting
The Cedar Creek Amateur (ham) Radio Club holds its June meeting on Saturday the 10th.
The meeting will feature videos and planning for Field Day. That's the annual event in which ham stations across the world "take to the field" and operate for 24 continuous hours. The stations are powered by emergency power such as generators, solar or batteries. The point is to demonstrate the ability to communicate when all other methods have failed. The club participates every year.
Also new officers will be installed and the new club station will be demonstrated.
It happens at 9 Am on Saturday June 10th at the Mabank Café on Hwy 198 in Mabank.
The club meets the second Saturday of each month there. The meeting starts at 9 AM, but many come early for the breakfast buffet. Anyone interested in technology is welcome.
The FCC license no longer requires a Morse code test. The club offers a free one-day course to pass the exam.
The Cedar Creek ARC has over forty members from the tri-county area. It maintains a VHF and UHF repeater system that provide hand-held radio coverage to hams in the lake area, and mobile and base coverage throughout the three counties. CCARC participates in the National Weather Service SKYWARN program and the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. The club also provides classes to those wishing to join the ranks of Amateur "ham" Radio. For more information, visit
www.k5ccl.org.
