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The St. Cloud Amateur Radio Club
The Saint Cloud Amateur Radio Club, W0SV, is a passionate group of Ham Radio Operators committed to our hobby as well as serving our community and beyond. You will find us at events around the area where we provide radio communication, help with traffic direction, provide first aid, and just enjoy all the people involved.
W0SV is an ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) club and part of the ARRL (Amateur Radio Relay League). We utilize Ham Radio to support local and national emergency communications, public service, education, and more. We are over 100 years old, almost as old as the ARRL.
We are one of the few clubs in the nation that owns and operates its own clubhouse. Located physically in Waite Park, Minnesota, our clubhouse gives us a great place to pursue our hobby and serve our community.
Training/Tests
We do FREE Laurel monthly license testing. (Click here to register for next test.) From time to time, we offer License classes for Technician, General, and Extra levels. Recordings of these classes can be found on YouTube.
Classes on other topics (like antenna building, emergency preparedness, Morse code) are sometimes offered.
Meetings
Our meetings consist of EMCOMM on the 1st Thursday of the month, Board of Directors on the 2nd Thursday, and the General Membership on the 3rd Thursday. We also get together on Monday nights from 6 – 9 pm, or later, for what we call Project Night – which is just what it sounds like. We work on different projects that come up, help each other with programming radios, clubhouse maintenance, face-to-face ragchew, and more. Tuesday evenings often feature educational classes to build skills or to prepare for license testing.
We love visitors at all of our functions, and invite anyone to visit us anytime!
Hamfest
Our Hamfest Cabin Fever Reliever event is held annually in Saint Cloud, and is one of the largest Hamfests in the State of Minnesota. We work year round planning the event in hopes of providing Hams with the best Hamfest experience possible.
