Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club

ARRL Field Day 2025

Saturday, June 28 and Sunday, June 29
Visit our Field Day page for more information and photos

 

Repeater, AllStarLink, and WiRES-X Users

Before you transmit, become familiar with our newly UPDATED guidelines.

Repeater Guidelines     AllStarLink Guidelines     WiRES-X Guidelines

 

Club Information

The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club, Inc. (MRAC) welcomes you to our website. The MRAC is one of the oldest, continuously operating amateur radio clubs in the world, having been incorporated in 1917 and is the oldest amateur radio club affiliated with the ARRL (The national association for Amateur Radio) since 1919. Recently, the ARRL bestowed their prestigious Special Service Club designation further recognizing the club’s commitment to education and community support.

MRAC operates a 2M repeater system on 145.390 MHz (-600kHz offset, 127.3Hz CTCSS) for both FM and C4FM with WIRES-X capability (Yaesu System Fusion). Weekly nets are held on Tuesdays (Rookie Net) and Fridays (2 meter Net). We also host the nation’s first “Fusion” Net heard throughout the Milwaukee area via the repeater or around the globe via WIRES-X on Saturday evenings. Please click HERE for more information on our club nets.

Join Our Fun

Hands-on projects are the foundation of amateur radio. Building one’s transmitter and receiver was necessary to getting on the air “back in the day.” Today, we work on antennas, test equipment, components, and yes, still we work on transceivers. The MRAC holds a monthly Workshop program designed to keep your hands busy, your mind active, and your interest high. For more information, visit Workshops. We hope you’ll join us.

Also, we have created a summer Fox Hunt program. Using the tape measure antenna and 4MHz offset attenuator built in the Workshop build-a-thons, we have taken to the field to “find the fox,” a low-power transmitter hidden in the bush and bramble. Feel free to join a team and learn how to Fox Hunt.

We also communicate off-the-air via Groups.io, a private email exchange among club members. You’ve heard of Yahoo! Groups. This is even better. Inquiries, invitations, information. The I’s have it. Subscribe today. (Note: this is limited to club members only).

Get On The Air

The Milwaukee Radio Amateurs’ Club provides a Ham Radio Boot Camp, a day-long series of how-to presentations, workshops, and a Q&A forum designed to help newly licensed operators get on the air. We recognize many newly licensed operators struggle with getting on the air to fully enjoy their new hobby, so we are extending the expertise of our club members to help new hams enjoy this fascinating hobby. Our Ham Radio Boot Camp takes other similar training venues to the next level with workshops, local knowledge, and expert Q&A. For more information, visit Ham Radio Boot Camp.

Meetings

The MRAC holds monthly membership meetings for club business, a ham radio-related presentation or discussion, and social gathering. In-person meetings are held on the third Saturday of every month at 10:00 am at Ham Radio Outlet in their Meeting Room.

Next Regular Members Meeting

Saturday July 19, 2025

Doors open: 9:00 am
Business meeting: 10:00 am
Program: Fox Hunting (Dean, KC9REN and William, WM9H). Fox Hunt demonstration to follow.

Zoom is available for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87301621302?pwd=SDdwVU10Q2FRQitXZUlRYnk2cEJLUT09
Meeting ID: 873 0162 1302
Passcode: 534147

Pre-Meeting Breakfast Social: 8:00 am Park Place Cafe, 110843 W Park Pl, Milwaukee, WI 53224