Welcome to Athens Amateur Radio Club! 
Anyone interested in learning more about ham radio is invited to the AARC monthly meetings which are on the 3rd Saturday of each month at. We are moving our meeting location to First Presbyterian Church in Athens, Texas. Their address is 405 E. Corsicana Street at their Fellowship Hall. Our fellowship starts at 8:00 AM and our meeting starts at 9:00 am followed by our monthly program.
Our recent programs have included Beacons, Software Defined Radios, PSK31, propagation, antenna’s, EMP’s, and many others to follow, see you soon!
Our repeater, K5EPH, now requires CTCSS tone access of 136.5. For those without tone generators in their radios, you may dial 11 to temporarily disable the tone access. This step was taken to reduce interference, not to exclude anyone! All licensed hams are welcome.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Athens Ham Radio Club is currently conducting a feasibility study for any Technician Class Hams. If you are a Technician and are interested in upgrading to the General Class, please contact the webmaster because we are considering an Upgrade Class at TVCC this fall. The cost would be nominal and will directly benefit the local ham clubs in the area. More information to follow – please let us know of any interest, contact [email protected].
If you are looking for some fun with the upcoming Solar Eclipse, an interesting website to checkout is https://hamsci.org. They have a web page specifically devoted to the solar eclipse on April 8’th 2024. This area should be under the full effect of the eclipse and RF Propagation may be interesting. There is a nationwide contest happening on specific HF Bands. The rules and information can be found at https://hamsci.org/eclipse. The Solar Eclipse QSO Party (SEQP) will be using CW, FT4/8, SSB and other digital modes. Participants will include volunteer amateur radio operators, short wave listeners and science researchers from multiple US universities. You may want to check it out.
AARC Monthly Meeting
NOTE: AARC monthly meetings have been growing and going strong!
Third Saturday of each month, 9AM, at The First Presbyterian Church in Athens, TX 75751. Address is 405 E. Corsicana St.
Come early and and socialize with us!
Meeting topics will cover various technical and operating aspects of ham radio and emergency service. As a club member, you are welcome to present a program if you wish. Just pick a topic in which you are interested, and contact one of the officers. All hams and want-to-be-hams are welcome to attend our meetings. We hope to see you there!
We are restructuring our tech nets. The Henderson County Ham Clubs will be having their combined tech net on Monday evenings starting at 7:00 pm. The AARC and CCRC repeaters are linked, so please join us on which ever repeater provide the best coverage for your location. K5EPH 147.220 & K5CCL 146.900.
We are a 501.3(c) non profit and would appreciate your donations toward helping AARC fulfill its mission of community service. Our mailing address is
AARC PO Box 1641, Athens, TX 75751
AARC OFFICERS 2022-2023 Ron Bean KJ5XX – President
Douglas Earnest KI5UFQ – Vice President
Eric Muller KJ6SIF – Secretary / Treasurer
Henderson County ARES
…has a facebook site at https://www.facebook.com/HendersonARES/. Please see this new site for info relevant to radio emergency preparedness and ARES operations for our Henderson County ARES group.
We’re the Henderson County Weather Spotters! 
The National Weather Service contacts AARC to activate the Weather Net. The Net is conducted on the repeater, and Storm Spotters are dispatched to remote locations. Weather information is reported to the Net, and the Net Controller sends it to the National Weather Service.