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WASHINGTON –  Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report of operational approaches to protect the National Public Warning System from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The report is a collaborative effort between the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the Federal Emergency Management Agency…

The next webinar for the Club Grant Program will be this Wednesday. I have the invitation below. Please feel free to distribute. You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Sep 7, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)…

The annual Route 66 On the Air Special Event will take place September 10 – 18, 2022. The purpose of the event is to commemorate the history of the “Mother Road” connecting the east and west United States. Now in…

The new ARRL Foundation Club Grant Program, funded by a generous grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), has awarded $270,000 to radio clubs that participated in the first round of applications. Twenty-four clubs were notified on Monday, August 29,…

Every September, National Preparedness Month is used to raise awareness about the importance of preparing for disasters and emergencies that could happen at any time. Whit, N5QNS, has created a handy file for you to mark a 2-mile radius around…

We have a banner for our WTX EmComm group.  It’s debut will be at the West Central Texas Emergency Preparedness Conference in Abilene, September 28, 2022. Click on image to see the full banner.

BBORR is looking for volunteers for their upcoming race October 12th -15th in Fort Stockton. For more information, click here or contact Benny, KB5JXO  

A generous and anonymous donor has gifted W5WX with a new and unopened ICOM 7300 to be raffled off with proceeds to benefit the club. Only 200 tickets will be sold at $20.00 each. The drawing will be held at…

As we all know, the ARRL has recently revised its webpage.  In the course of the web page’s revision, how we access our member profile and our personal information has changed. Among those changes is how we can sign up…