Welcome to the Top of Michigan Amateur Radio Club
***SPECIAL NOTE: Meetings at the airport are currently cancelled during the Michigan Stay at Home orders. See the calendar below for alternate locations.
Click here for the Mark Miller WD8OKL (SK) Estate equipment page.
RF FCC RF Exposure compliance goes in effect on May 3rd 2021.
All stations are required to perform assessments.
What does this mean? It means take a look at your station and make sure it’s safe for RF levels. Below is a quick link to check if you are under a power exemption and a calculator to see how safe you are. For those which have insomnia, ARRL has a free 316 page book called RF Exposure and you which explains more in detail.
*** ECHOLINK IS DOWN! We will be back once time is available to re-build the raspberry pi controller.
Meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30PM at the Gaylord Regional Airport. Repeater: 146.82- PL118.8 Check out our calendar below for meetings, nets, and other events. Email: tomarc@nm8rc.org
Club Dues
Club Dues for 2020 are $25 and can be paid to:
TOMARC, PO Box 15, Gaylord, MI. 49734
Dues and dontations may also be placed via PayPal. Just select $25 and enter your call sign in the payment notes in the button below:
Events:
| April 13 |
TOMARC MEETING 6:30PM University Center Gaylord Room U103 |
|
| April 17 |
KIT BUILD – Build a QRP Wattmeter w/ tuner @ KC9ON’s QTH. |
|
| April 20, 27 & May 4 |
TOMARC Net 146.82- PL118.8 |
|
| May 11 |
TOMARC MEETING 6:30PM GAYLORD REGIONAL AIRPORT |
|
| May 18, 25, & June 1 |
TOMARC Net 146.82- PL118.8 |
|
| June 12 |
Luce Co Yooper Hamfest, Newberry, MI |
|
| June 20 |
Monroe Hamfest |
|
| June 26&27 |
ARRL Field day At this time the location at the University Center in Gaylord is a go! |
|
| August 7 |
DX Engineering Hamfest & GL Division convention, Tallmadge OH |
|
| September 18 |
Cadillac Swapfest |
|
| September 19 |
Adrian Swapfest |
|
| December 5 |
L’Anse Cruese Swap, Madison Heights |
Echolink Usage:
nnnn# – Enter the node#with a # to connect
9# – Connect to echolink test server for audio check
## – Disconnect from Echolink
Click here to Sign up to our newsgroup!
Yahoo Groups Archives
Amateur Radio News on the air:
QSO Radio Show, HamNation, and Amateur Radio Newsline @ WWTS:
http://wtww.us/pages/schedule.php
Other local clubs and groups:
| Cherryland ARC | Traverse City |
146.86- PL114.8 442.5+ PL114.8 |
http://cherrylandarc.com/ |
| God’s Country Amateur Radio | Gaylord |
147.12+ PL151.4 WIRES-X |
http://w1wrs.com/ |
| Charlevoix, Emmet, Cheboygan RACES | 443.375 DSTAR | http://www.ccecpsco.org/ | |
| Straights Area ARC | Petosky | 146.68- PL110.9 | http://www.w8gqn.org/ |
| Amateur Radio Assoc of Hanson Hills | Grayling | 145.13- PL107.2 | https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/arahhham |
| Thunder Bay ARC | Alpena |
146.76- PL88.5 |
https://thunderbayarc.org/ |