SEMARC

South East Metro Amateur Radio Club 

SEMARC is a general interest amateur radio club devoted to serving its members and the amateur radio community in general.  It is affiliated with ARRL (The National Association for Amateur radio) and supports the programs of that association.

The club has programs that support public service and emergency communications and participates with the Washington County Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) organization as a partner with The Stillwater Amateur Radio Association (SARA).

Our public service participation includes Special events for the City of Cottage Grove.  In the past our members have participated in "Darien's Dash", "The Woodbury Country Mile", "Strawberry Fest" and other charitable events requiring radio communications.

As SEMARC meetings are in Cottage Grove, Minnesota the club draws members primarily from South Washington and Dakota Counties but everyone is welcome.

The club's 2 meter repeater operates on 146.985 MHz with a minus off-set and no tone is required.  This repeater provides excellent coverage with its transmitter located in Inver Grove Heights.  Our second repeater is 147.18 with a plus offset and tone of 74.4 being use for our ARES operations.

For fun, we have special events like Fox Hunts and we operate during the annual amateur radio "Field Day" in June.  Our meetings include a short "business" meeting and have programs that are either educational or entertaining.

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