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
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.
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.)
According to the News4Jax weather forecast, we could get up to 5″ of rain on Sunday.
However, the NWS is only predicting between 1.5″ and 2″ of rain – you can check the daily NWS Briefing (Click Here) for more detailed information This page is updated daily to give us the latest from the NWS office in Jacksonville.
Be sure to check your equipment, watch your email, and check the Clay ARES website for any updates.
(from Florida Skip Magazine – 1959)
Have you ever wondered why radio amateurs are called “HAMS?” Well, it goes like this: The word “HAM” as applied to 1908 was the station CALL of the first amateur wireless stations operated by some amateurs of the Harvard Radio Club. They were ALBERT S. HYMAN, BOB ALMY and POOGIE MURRAY. Continue reading
A HUGE “Thank You!” to Jim MacKinnon, KB2EZN, and KME America Marine Tube, who helped us repair the trailer that was donated to ClayARES by Clay County Department of Emergency Management. On Saturday, May 13, Jim Winfrey, Chris White, and Scott Roberts took the trailer to KME America Marine Tube to work with Jim and make the repairs. You can see the photos of the work as it progressed. Continue reading