The Alford Memorial Radio Club (AMRC) is Atlanta's premier Amateur Radio club. The AMRC is an amateur radio club that provides many communication and educational services to the entire Atlanta community.

We also provide emergency support with the DeKalb County ARES group and offer CaVEc sponsored Amateur Radio licensing test sessions.

The club's flagship repeater, 146.760, was the first 2M repeater in the Atlanta area and is positioned on top of Stone Mountain, Atlanta's famous landmark. The AMRC also sponsors two other W4BOC analog FM repeaters operating on the frequencies of 145.450, 224.760 at Exchange Park in East Atlanta. A Motorola DMR repeater is also located on top of Stone Mountain, operating on 441.8125+, color code 1. A Yaesu DR-2X System Fusion repeater on 444.250+, PL 131.8 in AMS mode is now in place at the Exchange Park site.

Our club hosts Field Day the 4th full weekend in June and also the largest Hamfest in Georgia on the first full weekend in November every year. The Hamfest is known as the Stone Mountain Hamfest and is held at the Lawrenceville, GA Fairgrounds on Sugarloaf Parkway.

Monthly Club in person club meetings are held the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:00pm at the Annistown Road Church located at 4554 Annistown Rd, Snellville, GA 30039. Our next in person meeting will be on Thur 5/8/2025 at 7:00pm. Some of us get together for dinner at the El Jinete Mexican Restaurant starting around 5:30pm before the meeting located at 3303 Centerville Hwy, Snellville, GA 30039.  Our program will be on Arduino by KW5GP, Glen Popiel.  Please see our Groups.IO calendar for more info on the monthly meetings. You may also join the club meeting via Zoom if you are not able to attend in person.

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Passcode: gammamatch

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We are looking for volunteers to be Net Control Stations for the club nets.

If you are interested in helping out, each net has a NCS sign-up sheet.

Amateur radio (HAM Radio) has a long history of service and mentoring others. Those that choose to help would-be hams learn more about amateur are known as "Elmers".

Here are a few of the AMRC Elmers.

Thomas Fuller, KE4QCM - Dekalb/Georgia ARES/Emcomm, net control operations, VHF/HF packet radio, robust packet radio (RPR), Pactor 1, Amtor, VARA/VARAC, weak signal/digital modes, Winlink, FLDigi, DRATS, DXing, Contesting, hardware TNC, Kenwood hybrid radios, 6 meters, APRS, Ham VOIP/Allstar, DMR/System Fusion/DStar.

Richard Dervan, N1RBD - portable ops (POTA/SOTA) and CW

Greg Mann, WC4Y - Parks on the Air (POTA), portable ops, Yaesu System Fusion, D-Star, SSB contesting, stealth antennas, end fed half wave antennas, Wolf River Coil antennas, APRS

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Mailing Address

Alford Memorial Radio Club
P.O. Box 1282
Stone Mountain, GA 30086-1282

President - Steve Garrison, N4TTY

Vice President - Larry Mc Lendon, KU4RE

Treasurer - Barry Kanne, W4TGA

Secretary - Ernie Johnston Jr., WB4LVA

Trustee - Greg Mann, WC4Y

Repeater Manager - Barry Kanne, W4TGA

Club Counsel - Jim Penland, N4RAR

Club Counsel - Ruth Primm, KJ4SUL

Membership Chair - Douglas Hooper, KQ4DWZ

Hamfest Chair - Steve Garrison, N4TTY

Public Information Officer - Steve Vogel, W4PSV

Field Day Chair - Richard Dervan, N1RBD

Special Events Chair - Richard Dervan, N1RBD

TOTR Newsletter Editor - vacant

VE Team Chair - Frank Haynes, KV4SP

Net Coordinator - Thomas Fuller, KE4QCM

Webmaster - Thomas Fuller, KE4QCM

Webmaster - Jonathan Peters, WD4FOX

Dekalb ARES EC - Jim Penland, N4RAR