The Bloomington Amateur Radio club is actively involved in many special events thoughout the year, be it helping out with hamfests, communications for a sports event, or exposing kids to ham radio, etc. HamfestsBARC is involved heavily in local hamfests such as Owen Country Hamfest in Ellettsville. Contact us if you need help with your hamfest. CommunicationsBARC routinely provids help for special events. If your event could use communications assistance, contact us at
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and we can discuss your needs and our capabilities. We are glad to help out with community, educational and non-profit charitable events. Events BARC is currently involved with (or has been involved with in the past) include: Our involvement provides a wireless connection between and among the activity organizers and volunteers stationed at remote locations. Ham radio signals are generally able to reach farther than Family Radio Service (FRS) walkie-talkies, less likely to intrude upon or be interupted by other communications on FRS or Citizens' Band (CB), and are not affected by busy cell phone circuits. The communications activities use local repeaters (with the permission and cooperation of the repeater owners) or other identified frequencies. Our involvement is communication. We leave the work of the the event or activity to your volunteers. But using amateur radio for your communications needs provides our operators the opportunity to use the skills and tactics that are often part of unexpected events requiring community-service communications networks. We benefit. You benefit. Kids EventsPromotional EventsFun EventsEmergenciesIn 2002, the Bloomington Amateur Radio club helped with communications in the Ellettsville Tornado recovery. The following is a testimonial to our engagement. | | I want to express how thankful I am for all the hours of work done by amateur radio operators at the St. John's Red Cross Shelter. All our disaster relief operations were coordinated by the nets and amateurs in the mobile feeding units, and in the family services outreach and damage assessment teams. I am very proud of the work that was done and proud of my amateur radio friends. We could not have done it without you! On behalf of St. John's Parish, thank you and God bless. Kevin Pauley KB9WVI
Site Manager, DR262 Ellettsville 9/20/02 Tornado
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Silent Key K9DIY (BARC adopted his callsign in 2007) operating at St. John's Red Cross Shelter
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