The Dixie Amateur Radio Club, Inc. is an association of federally licensed Amateur Radio operators (also known as "ham radio" operators) who primarily reside in southwestern Utah, mostly in the greater St. George City metropolitan area. We also have members who live in rural areas of Washington County and in areas outside of the county.

The Dixie Amateur Radio Club, Inc. is a formally "Affiliated Club" with the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) which is "The National Association for Amateur Radio." Our Club is also a non-profit IRS 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Donations to the Club may be tax deductable (Consult your own tax advisor).

Our members are all volunteers. We are experienced and capable of providing non-commercial radio telecommunications, independent of public and/or commercial networks. 

Members of our Club provide vital communications services in this part of the state of Utah and we strive to live up to ham radio's motto:

"When all else fails...    ...Amateur Radio works!" 

Amateur Radio operators provide, in many circumstances, the first and only reliable means of communicating to an from an affected area in the first several days following a natural disaster.  This was well proven during the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami in December 26, 2004 and in the days and weeks following Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf of Mexico Coast during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. 

Our Club also provides local public safety and health and welfare communications services for local events such as the annual St. George Marathon, the Huntsman World Senior Games, and many other cycling and running events in the area.

To explore our web site please use the web site navigation links located directly below on this home page and at the bottom of every other page on the web site.

For more information on the Club please CLICK HERE. Or you can use the "About the Club" link found at the bottom of each page this web site.

If you are interested in becoming a licensed Amateur Radio operator come and meet us at our next club meeting.  Information on our club meetings is available below in the "Latest News + Announcements" section on this page or using the "Club Meeting Info" page link.  Information on how to contact the Club is found using the "Contact the Club" page link.

The next Club meeting will be held at the St. George Community Building on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.

The Club meeting will be at the usual location, in the St. George Community Building located behind the St. George Active Life 60+ Center (Senior Center) which is at 245 N 200 W, St. George, Utah.

PLEASE NOTE:  The community building is not the Active Life 60+ Center. Drive to the back of the property and you will see a smaller building that is about the size of a doublewide manufactured home. It clearly says St. George Community Building.

More information on the topic(s) for monthly club meeting may be found on the Club Meeting Info page, see link below.  Club Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month except in December when the Annual Meeting as a social event/dinner is scheduled.   
  

You can also use this direct LINK , or the "Club Meeting Info"  link found in the navigation section of every page on this web site.   A link to an interactive map of the meeting location is also provided on the "Club Meeting Info" page.   

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THIS IS MANDATORY:  IF YOU INTEND TO TAKE THE EXAM FOR THE TECHNICIAN CLASS LICENSE YOU MUST REGISTER FOR AND RECEIVE AN "FRN NUMBER" FROM THE FCC BEFORE YOU COME TO THE TEST SESSION.  IT IS DONE ONLINE AND YOU WILL RECIEVE YOUR FRN# IMMEDIATELY. YOU MUST DO THIS IN ADVANCE AND BRING THAT NUMBER OR YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO TAKE THE EXAM - NO EXCEPTIONS!. THE V.E.'s CANNOT DO THIS FOR YOU. SEE THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW:


IMPORTANT!   FIRST-TIME APPLICANTS MUST READ THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS NOTICE:   FRN-INFORMATION.PDF

For those wanting to take the FCC test for a new Amateur Radio license or upgrade to a higher license class, there is a regularly scheduled ARRL Volunteer Examiner administered exam test session held at 5:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month, except December, prior to the Club's monthly Club meeting.  The monthly exam is held at the same location as the Club Meeting.

In addition to eleven regular monthly V.E. test sessions held prior to the Club meeting, each year we also conduct six additional test sessions on the second Saturday of even numbered months, in Hurricane, Utah, commencing at 2:00 p.m.  
 

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The Dixie Amateur Radio Club, Inc (DARC) is in the process of raising funding to add Battery & Solar backup power system to our Amateur Radio Repeater System.

DARC is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational service organization that serves Southern Utah.  Our radio operators volunteer to do communications and safety backup for races, triathlons, car rallies and when called-out we can serve the community and local hospital and health department personnel in case of floods, earthquakes, pandemics and other emergencies.

Backup power is important in case the power grid goes down--we can communicate then even if the cell system is down.  We are raising funds for that project.  Please click on the "Donate Now" image to the left to go to our secure crowdfunding page to make a much appreciated donaton.  As mentioned, DARC is a non-profit IRS 501(c)(3) charitable organization.  Donations to the Club may be tax deductable. Please consult your own tax advisor to confirm this.     

Congratulations to the one candidate who passed his Amateur Extra Class license exam, and three candidates whoeach passed the Technician Class license exam at the V.E. session held on Wednesday, September 21, 2022 in St. George, Utah. This session, like all our sessions, happily allows for "walk-ins" (with an FRN # obtained from the FCC in advance of the session). Our sessions are conducted by ARRL-VEC certified Volunteer Examiners who live in the local area.  Below is the result of this session:

APPLICANT'S NAME:	FCC ISSUED CALLSIGN:	PLACE OF RESIDENCE:	EXAM PASSED:
Stacy Jourdain	AI7ON	Fredonia, Arizona	Amateur Extra Class
Bryan Romney	Awaiting issuance of callsign by the FCC	St. George, Utah	Technician Class
Jonathan Jasper	Awaiting issuance of callsign by the FCC	St. George, Utah	Technician Class
Chrisopher Parrish	Awaiting issuance of callsign by the FCC	Sandy, Utah	Technician Class
Jeffrey Burklow	Awaiting issuance of callsign by the FCC	St. George, Utah	Technician Class

You may check the status of your first license or your upgrade by using the ULS lookup on the FCC's  web site. This is the offical FCC database.

On that site you can print out additional "reference copies" of your license and see the status of your license and any application matters related to it. You can choose to search by name, callsign or your FRN number.
 

You are encouraged to join the Dixie Amateur Radio Club or renew your membership.   Please use this LINK or the "Join the Club" link at the bottom of any page on this site, to learn how to join the club.  Or simply come out to our Club meeting (see info above) and join at in person with our Club's Treasurer at that time.    If you are new: "Welcome to the Club!".  To renewing members: "Thank You!"

The Club has a group of able local Amateur Radio operators who have expressed a willingness to assist aspiring, as well as newly licensed, ham radio enthusiasts in learning more about the hobby and helping when questions/difficulties arise.

Click HERE to find out more about this program and to view a list of these mentors.  You can also reach this information by using the "Contact the Club" link found in the navigation section on every page on this site.

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There is never a bad time to clean out the ol' ham "shack" of those items that really need a new home.  We have had many news ham operators join our ranks at recent Volunteer Exam sessions who may be looking for rigs and all of the ancillary equipment that you may have lying about the shack that could be put to use in the shack of a new ham.

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ARRL Amateur Radio Exam Practice

ARRL Exam Review for Ham Radio™ is a web-based on-line application for your computer, tablet or other mobile device.  The online practice exams are patterned as closely as possible to actual exams administered by Volunteer Examiners.

Practice exams follow the same protocol as the actual FCC Amateur Radio license exam – questions are chosen at random from the sub-elements of the question pools and answer order is randomized. To use the practice exam you will need to do a simple free registration. Good luck in your practicing for your actual exam.