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For a separate page on some key courses for emergency training, click here.

Local Amateur Radio Clubs (ARCs)  (website, Facebook page)

WB4FAY’s Lists of Birmingham Metro Area Ham Radio Operators. Super handy!
http://www.wb4fay.com/areahams.html

Birmingham Amateur Radio Club (BARC)
www.w4cue.com, Facebook

Shelby County Amateur Radio Club
www.w4shl.com, Facebook

Healthcare Community Amateur Radio Club (HCARC)
www.hc-arc.org, Facebook

St. Clair Amateur Radio Club Inc.
www.scarc.net

Sylvan Springs Amateur Radio Club Inc.
www.ssarc-al.org, Facebook

Blount County Amateur Radio Club
w4blt.org

Walker Amateur Radio Club
http://ae4uo.tripod.com/default.html

Tuscaloosa Amateur Radio Club
http://w4kcq.org/

Emergency Communications

Alabama ALERT, Alabama Emergency Response Team: (http://alert-alabama.org/blog/)

ARES: Jefferson County, Alabama Amateur Radio Emergency Service
New website under development:  http://ares.al

Facebook: ARES and ARES Training Events page

National Weather Service: Birmingham Office

Mike Shaw’s Amateur Radio Training and Events Bulletin Board

Databases

QRZ.com: (http://www.qrz.com/index.html). You’ll hear ham operators say they are “on QRZ.”) That’s this website, useful for lots of things, but a popular place to look people up by call sign. Operators sometimes maintain bios, display photos, etc.

ARRL: The National Association for Amateur Radio

ARRL’s FCC License Search 

Learning about Ham Radio

Ham Study: (www.hamstudy.org) Terrific system for studying for all levels of licensure as a ham operator.

Getting Started: (http://www.hamuniverse.com/repeater.html)
Very good stuff for the brand new ham, including information about using repeaters.

Connector Guide: (http://www.diamondantenna.net/pdfdocs/connectorguide.pdf) Here’s Diamond Antennas’ guide to the sometime baffling world of Ham Radio antenna connectors.