Tamiami Amateur Radio Club

First organized in 1960, the Tamiami Amateur Radio Club has more than 160 members engaged in the active pursuit of the amateur radio hobby. A large number of our members are seasonal residents who live in Venice during the cold winter months and then return north to their original home QTH for the summer. The club makes use of new DMR technology to allow these members to keep in touch with the local, full-time club members here in Venice.

2/17/24	Member	Roger Freeman	Extra	W9ELE
2/22/24	Associate	Neil Yuenger	None	None
2/26/24	First Year	Paul Phillips	Technician	KQ4OWQ
3/8/24	Member	Karl Kaukis	Extra	K0CIE
3/27/24	Member	Sean Hynds	Technician	KQ4QGK
4/9/24	Member	John Farley	General	KC3BOG
4/13/24	First Year	Matt Campbell	Technician	KQ4RGA

Local License Testing Available

The club has been a proud affiliate of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) since 1963. Some of our members are certified Volunteer Examiners (VEs). The club sponsors a monthly FCC license testing session on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 10 am. Information regarding location, testing, cost, procedure, and registration is available.

Get more information.

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TARC participates in the annual ARRL Field Day event each year. The club also operates a special event station each year (K4S) in April at the annual Shark’s Tooth Festival in Venice. Operating as club station W4AC we won the 2019 Florida QSO Party Award for most contacts!

Club membership is open to all ham radio operators and to those who want to become ham radio operators. Please visit with us at one of our monthly club meetings held at Venice Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 825 The Rialto, Venice 34285 on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 6:30 PM. (No meetings in July and August) <more>

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Sarasota County has an Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) group organized under the ARRL West Central Florida (WCF) Section Emergency Coordinator. It is organized and operated independently of any club affiliation. Membership in this ARES group is open to any licensed amateur radio operator in the county. For more information visit their website: http://srqares.org.

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Parks on the Air (POTA)

POTA activations have become a big attraction for many club members in the 2020’s. Started in the late 1990’s by the US Park Service to encourage amateur radio operators to come into the parks and operate, the concept has grown in the 2000’s to become not only a popular nation-wide ham activity; but, now also includes many foreign (Dx) park entities as well. Visit the POTA website to get yourself registered and start getting some outdoor activity with nice fresh air and a little bit of exercise too.We have many club members who do POTA activations in the Venice area. Join us! If you can’t get out anymore than become a “park hunter” and participate from the comfort of your shack. Either way, make contacts and earn POTA awards.

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Get a Maidenhead Grid Location <HERE>

What are grid squares? Well, they’re more like rectangles and are just a way of dividing up the surface of the Earth. Grid squares are a shorthand means of describing your general location anywhere on the Earth in a manner that is easy to communicate over the air.

An instrument of the Maidenhead Locator System (named after the town outside London where it was first conceived by a meeting of European VHF managers in 1980), <more>

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The Tamiami Amateur Radio Club web site is an Internet portal to keep our members informed, and attract a broader audience by introducing ourselves to the community. It is our intention to keep our members and the public informed as to our purpose and supply information on our activities. Webmaster contact: websupport@tamiamiarc.org