Join SUHFARS

If you are looking for an amateur radio club that is active, has fun, and doesn’t take itself too seriously join the Suburban UHF Repeater Society.    While we welcome everyone to our “Nets” and club events, your membership in the club makes us stronger and helps to support the club’s activities.  In addition to the prestige of being a SUHFARS member there are other incredible benefits listed below. 

Joining SUHFARS is easy!

  1. Find the SUHFARS web site (you already did that!)
  2. Click HERE to fill out the membership application
  3. If you know a current SUHFARS member list them as your “Sponsor”.  If you don’t know a current member put “Board” as your sponsor name and callsign.
  4. Complete and submit the application.
  5. Pay your dues (see below)
  6. Be active, join our nets, participate in events, and make new friends.
  7. You will be a “Provisional member” of SUHFARS until the next member meeting where the current members of the club will welcome you as a “Full member”.   As a “Provisional member” you have all the rights of a full member except for voting privileges.

Here is the “Fine Print” regarding dues and membership:

The SUHFARS membership period is from July1 – June 30.  Dues are $30/year.   If you join between January and July then your dues cover the first partial year until July and the next full year.   If you join between July 1 and December 31 then your dues cover your membership through the next July 1.  

You can pay your dues via the PayPal or Zelle.  In both cases, send the money to treasurer@suhfars.org.  For PayPal mark the payment as “friends and family” so we are not charged a transaction fee.  

If PayPal is not your thing, please send a check to: Suhfars c/o Keith Soldner, 1235 Windy Knoll Dr, Algonquin, IL 60102
(editors note…I put this section here because as treasurer I kept forgetting the dates and rules on partial year dues)

 

As a member you have the following benefits:

·         Two repeaters
o   An analog repeater 443.250 PL 114
o   D-Star digital repeater to access with a D-Star equipped radio 441.23125

·         Three pizza party meetings and an annual picnic.

·         A place to conduct Field Day operations once a year where everyone attending is an Amateur Extra with all the operating privileges that go with it.

·         As a club we give back to the community by providing radio support to charitable events such as the TREK100, Chicago Marathon, Crystal Lake Aquathon, McHenry 100, Tour de Cure (For Diabetes Research) and other events that may come along.

·         We have an easy method to reach another member instead of trying to remember the email for that person.  As long as you know their call sign, you can contact them directly.  As an example to reach our club president  (K9AT Dave) at K9AT@suhfars.org.

·         The SUHFARS Website www.suhfars.org and all the associated back-office functions to support it.

·         Weekly radio nets on Sunday nights, The Legendary SUHFARS Nothing Net on our analog repeater with an accompanying computer WebEx video at 8:07 or 9:07 mirroring the daylight savings time change.

·         As a new ham we have a lot of tenured hams that hang out on our repeaters to “elmer” you on your new journey in ham radio.

·         And many more benefits coming this year.

·         Finally, and the most important benefit, the camaraderie of friendly, kind, understand and encouraging community of amateur radio operators that have your best interest at heart.

Finally share with your friends that you’re part of a great ham radio club and encourage them to attend one of our events to check us out.  If they are interested have them submit an application for membership from our website and be their sponsor!  If they say they, but I already belong to another ham club tell them the president of our club belongs to two other radio clubs.  It’s OK to belong to multiple radio clubs because each one offers something different to the ham radio experience!