Club Activities

The San Angelo Amateur Radio Club holds regular monthly meetings on the second Thursday of each month beginning at 7 p.m. at the clubhouse located at 5513 Stewart Lane, Mathis Field (see the map on the W5QX page). All amateurs and persons interested in amateur radio are invited to attend the club meetings. We try to have a program of general amateur interest following the business portion of each meeting.

Current club news and upcoming events are reported on the Concho Valley Two Meter Net which meets every Monday night at 7 p.m. on the club's 146.94 repeater (W5QX/R, PL 103.5 Hz). This net is conducted by the club's emergency coordinator and all amateurs are welcome to check into this net.

The SAARC has been an affiliate of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) since 1954 and an ARRL Special Service Club since 1986. We periodically conduct classes for people wishing to obtain an amateur radio license and we also can offer advanced classes in Morse code and theory for licensed amateurs wishing to upgrade their present license. Our two 2-day Technician license classes in 2006 yielded 24 newly licensed radio amateurs.

Download NCVEC Form 605 dated September 2017 (Fillable PDF file, requires free Acrobat Reader)

Club member participation in the National Weather Service’s SKYWARN™ program is vital to our local NWS office. Even with the installation of the NEXRAD Doppler radar in 1995, trained, on-scene, eyewitness spotters are essential in confirming what the radar is "seeing." The radar room of the local weather service office is equipped with VHF/UHF gear to communicate directly with spotters in the field, including volunteer firefights and REACT. The NWS office obtained the call sign N5NWS, which is used during SKYWARN™ operations. Weather spotters receive annual basic and advanced spotter training provided by meteorologists from the San Angelo NWS office.

December brings the club's annual "Eatin' Meetin'" when members and their families and friends get together for a casual dinner and present the annual awards.

ARRL Field Day is the club’s main operating activity. Field Day always promises to be an interesting time for the neophyte as well as the seasoned amateur. And, it nearly always promises to bring us wind, rain, hail, or some other sort of foul weather at least one day of the Field Day weekend.