The Dixie Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (DARC) is a non-profit [IRS 501(c)(3)] association of Amateur Radio operators, also known as "hams", in southwest Utah. The Dixie Amateur Radio Club is an American Radio Relay League (ARRL) affiliated club. The ARRL is the National Association for Amateur Radio.

The Dixie Amateur Radio Club exists to promote the growth and awareness of amateur radio in southwest Utah, to encourage members to get active and get on the air, to encourage radio experimentation and advance radio technology and education and organizes and trains volunteers to serve their communities by providing public service and emergency communications.
 

As a 501(c)(3), donations to the club are tax deductible as allowed by your personal circumstances. Donations are accepted at any time using the following online form:

Donate to the Dixie Amateur Radio Club

Dedicated, skilled and experienced members of the Dixie Amateur Radio Club have a long and proud tradition of providing vital public service communications capabilities within our community. Amateur Radio operators are all volunteers who provide this service, without remuneration, at many local and regional public events. Our members also provide safety communications for many other area events such as bicycle road and off-road mountain-bike races, and many other running events. Our Club members are available to assist, where appropriate, in similar activities in this area.

Specially trained members of our Club, participating in the Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES) program are ready to serve this area when natural and human-caused disasters occur, and are on call day or night, especially "when all else fails! " and most or all normal means of communications are disrupted.
 

Amateur Radio isn't all "doom and gloom". While the preparation for and ability to provide critical communications in time of disaster is the primary function of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, ham radio operators also have fun and excitement when talking to fellow hams in other states as well in distant countries and islands around the globe. Hams use various internationally assigned amateur frequency bands and modes which include voice, data modes, even television as well as the traditional International Morse Code.  Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of Morse Code is no longer required to obtain an Amateur Radio license.  Many hams, however, do learn it and then continue to use this simple but elegant communications mode, that in many circumstances, "gets the messages through" in conditions when other operating modes cannot.

Hams also build and maintain mountain-top repeater systems for local and regional communications using hand-held and mobile transceivers and even have many earth-orbiting relay satellites, entirely funded and built by Amateur Radio operators, that provide world-wide capabilities independent of commercial systems. Amateur Radio is the backup that is always there!