ABOUT DARC

The Dixie Amateur Radio Club holds a weekly VHF Sunday Night Net each Sunday at 8:00 P.M. Mountain Time.  The net is always at 8:00 P.M. regardless of whether it is Mountain Standard Time (MST) or Daylight Savings Time (MDT). All Club Members are encouraged to check in to the net.  All licensed ham operators are welcome. Visitors are especially invited to participate in the DARC Sunday Night Net.  Check-ins for visitors will occur after the roll call. Checking in the Club’s Sunday Night VHF net each week is a good way to test your equipment and it also is a great way for new ham radio operators to become more comfortable talking over the radio.

The net is held on the Club’s linked repeater system.  See the Repeaters tab for information about the Club’s repeaters.

Each operator must check in twice every calendar month to remain a member of the roll call list. Members will still have the opportunity to freeze their place on the roll when they are on vacation or physically unable to check in due to sickness or equipment failure. When they freeze their spot, their call-sign will not be called on the roll until they ask a net control operator to unfreeze them. At the end of every month, any member who has not checked in at least once, and has not been frozen, will be removed from the roll call list, and will lose their placement. To re-join the list, the operator will need to check in 3 times in a calendar month as a guest, and then be added to the end of the list.

To appropriately recognize the support of our dues-paying members—who sustain the repeater system and club operations—paid club members will be called first on the roster. Non-members are always welcome to participate and will be included in the non-member section, called after the member roll call.

To join or renew, click on the Memebrship menu item and select “Join Us”.

Current Sunday Net Roster

When the net is called, a very specific preamble is read.  Please CLICK HERE to view/download/print the net preamble.

Email netroster@dixieham.org to freeze or unfreeze your place on the roster.

The Dixie Amateur Radio Club has a linked repeater system.  Here are the new frequencies that you can use. These are open repeaters available to any Amateur to use:

• 145.490 MHz  Utah Hill  (covering most areas of the southern county, northern Clark County, NV)

• 146.640 MHz  Webb Hill  (coverage of  metropolitan St. George, Washington)

• 145.450 MHz Toquerville  (coverage of northern Washington County, Hurricane/LaVerkin – eastern Washington County areas)

Remember, the frequency that you should have your transceiver’s receiver set on is the frequency shown above.   You should have the transmit offset set to minus (-) 600kHz  and each of these repeaters require a 100hz CTCSS tone to access them.

All you need to do is key up on one of the 2 meter DARC repeaters, count to two to get time for the links to all come up, identify yourself.

The DARC repeaters are:

• 145.490, minus 600khz transmit offset, with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone,

• 145.450, minus 600khz transmit offset,  with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone, and

• 146.640, minus 600khz transmit offset, with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone.

The 145.49 is a high elevation mountaintop repeater with good general wide-area coverage. The 145.45 is a medium level machine that works best in the Hurricane area. Up to the Zion park entrance works on a mix of 145.49 and 145.45 with .45 being the best overall. The 146.64 is a low level machine for St. George and Washington area coverage. All three of these repeaters are normally linked.

Presentation on Club Linked Repeater System

Dixie Amateur Radio Club, Inc. has an elected Board of Directors. According to the Club Constitution, the Board of Directors shall be the governing body of DARC and as such shall formulate and be responsible for all matters of policy. Decisions of the Board of Directors shall be by majority vote of a quorum of the Board present at any meeting where such votes may be taken.

The board meetings are the first Thursday of every month at 3 pm.via Zoom. The Zoom meeting link can be found on the Calendar page. 

Board meetings are open to the public. Everyone is invited and to attend and observe the Board in action. If you have a topic you would like to discuss at a board meeting, please email the board at dixieham@dixieham.org with information about what you would like to discuss.

The Intermountain Intertie is a system of linked repeaters managed by the Utah VHF Society. The repeaters can be used by anyone, but it is encouraged that you join them so they have the funds to manage and maintain the repeaters. The web site has a list of repeaters that are managed by the Utah VHF Society, and a list of all the repeaters in Utah. The Utah VHF Society has a repeater on Utah Hill in St George – output frequency is 146.820, input frequency is 146.220, subtone 100 Hz.

The Utah VHF Society web site:   https://utahvhfs.org/