Author Archives: KK4ECR

2018 Memorial Day 5k Run

The Florida Strider’s 2018 Memorial Day 5k will be on Monday, May 28th.  We are looking for 5 to 6 operators to help us out with this event.  We will be operating from 7 am until approx 10 am.  Please complete the information below to sign up.  Thank you for your support of these events. Continue reading

2018 Run to the Sun

We are looking for 7 operators to assist with the Run to the Sun event, sponsored by Florida Striders.  We need to setup at 7am and will be done around 11-11:30am.  This is a fun event.  It will start behind the Dog Track and go along River Road. Continue reading

Amazon Smile

ClayARES is again listed on Amazon Smile.  If you use Amazon to place orders, please consider using http://smile.amazon.com and selecting ClayARES as your supported organization.

Once you go to Amazon Smile, you can search for

Clay County Amateur

and our organization should be the first one that comes up.

ClayARES gets a percentage of your purchases as a donation to our organization.

Thank you for your support.

ClayARES Capital Campaign

The last several years have been an exciting time for amateur radio emergency services here in Clay County. Supporting local charities and organizations along with deployments for hurricanes Matthew and Hermine were all highlights. And let’s not forget the success of our youth initiatives, a school club placing in the top five of the last four ARRL School Club Roundups, helping more than 100 Boy Scouts earn their Radio merit badge and visiting local high schools. Yes, it’s been an eventful few years. And the future for ClayARES is just as bright and exciting. Continue reading

NBC’s “Left Field”

NBC’s “Left Field,” a new digital news unit, produced a video news story about the vital role that Amateur Radio plays in Hawaii’s emergency communications system

We were also given permission from the producer of the piece (Sky Dylan-Robbins) to use this piece in any promotional way that we wanted. So you and your organizations are free to show this seven-minute piece at any gatherings where it would be appropriate. (NBC prefers that you use the link to the video on You Tube rather than from the Left Field web site.)