Mount Tom Amateur Repeater Association…

Continues our community outreach, to help create an environment on special occasions, and local radio events to be able to give back by helping todays youth (and their parents), on certain events, goal settings and group gatherings.

With this mission, we deliver radio science and technology to the younger generation and hopefully, inspire them to learn and think how radio waves are all around us everday… And how much we rely on these thing in everyday life..

Oddly, most of these daily needs don’t even include radio…

We love to help Schools, Scouts, and other youth programs understand, radio operations, propagation, frequencies, band width, electrical current, project safety, ohms law, antenna building, how repeaters work, and how they differ from simplex transmissions and much, much more…

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We work with several emergency Net Control Stations every week, that can help young kids learn the structure of traffic handling nets, perhaps even get on the air themselves to pass simulated emergency traffic…

We work along side with, (and many of us are), trained ‘Skywarn’ Weather spotters, to learn about severe weather patterns, conditions, and how they effect the environment we live in. Some of which is teaching kids how to spot possible dangerous weather on the horizon, and report these conditions into a National Weather Service sponsored Skywarn Nets on our repeater systems.

Some of our members are active in portable radio operations, including the fundamentals of hiking and activating a mountain top summit with their portable radio station. Or perhaps even setting up a radio station within a State or National Park, to try and contact other State and National parks for fun, and for points…

If you’d like to learn more. Visit our MTARA activites page to see what upcoming meetings or live events you might like to learn more about. Feel free to contact a MTARA Board Of Directors Member for more information, or fill out the contact form below: