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Below is a list of amateur radio organizations, other than San Francisco Bay Area clubs, that we are aware of and may be of interest to hams in Northern California. If you know of one not on the list, or see an error, please let us know at info@mdarc.org.

Also see our Clubs in Northern California & Nevada and Links of Interest pages.

International

• International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)

• International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) - Region 2- the Americas.

• International Amateur Radio Club (IARC)

• Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores

• International Morse Preservation Society

• Japan Amateur Radio League

• Morse Telegraph Club

• QRP Amateur Radio Club International

• Radio Amateurs of Canada

• Radio Society of Great Britain

• Russian Digital Radio Club

• Six Meter International Radio Klub (SMIRK)
  
  

Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)

• Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)

• ARRL - Pacific Division

  • ARRL - East Bay Section

  • ARRL Sacramento Valley Section

  • ARRL San Francisco Section

  • ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section

  • ARRL Santa Clara Valley Section

  • ARRL Nevada Section

Amateur Television (ATV)

• Amateur Television of Northern California - Yahoo Group

• Amateur Television Network

• ATV W6CX Live Stream

Amateur Radio in Space

• Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)

• NOAA Space Weather Scales

• Project Oscar

• Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)

Conferences, Conventions, Hamfests

• Dayton Hamvention, Dayton, Ohio

• International DX Convention, Visalia, CA

• Nevada State Convention, Reno, NV

• PACIFICON - the ARRL Pacific Division Conference, San Ramon, CA

• Pacific Northwest DX Convention - Everett, Washington

• Pacific Northwest VHF Conference, Issaquah, Washington

• Sacramento Valley Hamfest, Lincoln, CA

• Sea-Pac - Portland, Oregon

• Yuma Hamfest - the ARRL Southwestern Division Convention, Yuma, AZ

• Washington State Convention, Spokane Valley, Washington
  
  

Coordination, Band Planning, License Testing Groups

• Northern Amateur Relay Council of California, Inc. (NARCC)

• Northern California Digital Coordination Council (NCDCC)

• Northern California Packet Association (NCPA)

• Northern California Spectrum Working Group (NCSWG)

• National Frequency Coordinator's Council (NFCC)

• National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC)
  
  

Digital Organizations (Voice & Data)

• APRS

  • Amateur Packet Radio Network (AMPRNet)

  • Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)
    
    

• Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)

  • California DMR (CalDMR)

  • Central California DMR (CenCal DMR)

  • Digital Communications Interconnect (DCI)

  • DMRX - DMR Experimentation

  • Ham-DMR Forums

  • Motorola Amateur Radio Club International Network (DMR_MARC)

  • Pocket Auto-Patch Association (PAPA) (Southern California)
    
    

• D-Star

  • D-Star Users
    
    

• Internet Linking

  • Echolink

  • Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP)

  • WinLink
    
    

• Mesh Networking

  • Broadband-Hamnet (BBHN); HSMM-MESH
    
    

• Packet, RTTY, Data Transfer

  • DigiPan

  • fldigi Family of Software - W1HKJ

  • Northern California Packet Association

  • PSKGNR

  • RTTY.COM

  • Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Association (TAPR)
    
    

• General Digital

  • Advanced Digital Amateur Radio

  • WB8NUT's Digital Modes Information Page

Emergency Communications (EmComm)

• See our Emergency Communications page.
  
  

Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS)

• U.S. Army MARS Introduction

• U.S. Army MARS Public Site

• U.S. Army MARS Support Pages (Unofficial)

• U.S. Air Force MARS

• U.S. Air Force MARS - Region 9

• U.S. Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard MARS
       (Note: The Navy/Marine Corps MARS system was disbanded 09/30/2015 and transitioned
        to the Army & Air Force MARS systems.)
  
  

Morse Code

• Straight Key Century Club (SKCC)

Museums, Historical Organizations

• Antique Wireless Association

• California Historical Radio Society (CHRS)

• Guglielmo Marconi Foundation

• Maritime Radio Historical Society

Networks

• Alum Rock Repeater Group

• California Amateur Radio Linking Association (CARLA)

• California Network (Calnet)

• California-Nevada Amateur Repeater Network (CNARN)

• Cactus Intertie System

• Condor Connection

• N6ICW Repeater System

• N6NMZ Network

• Nor Cal Cactus Radio Association

• Northern California 900 Repeater System

• Pacific Seafarer's Net

• WB6ECE Repeater Group

• Western Intertie Network

Publications

• CQ Magazine

• QST Magazine

QRP

• American QRP Club

• North American QRP CW Club (NAQCC)

• QRP Radio Club International\

• 4 State QRP Group

Transmitter Hunting (Fox Hunting, T-Hunting)

• Transmitter Hunting in the Bay Area

Other

• 73s.org

• Amateur Radio Newsline

• American Legion Amateur Radio Club

• Courage Kenny Handiham Program

• Old Old Timers Club

• Quarter Century Wireless Association

• Salinas Valley Repeater Group

• Sisterhood Of Amateur Radio

• Summits on the Air (SOTA)

• Sunol Ridge Repeater Group

• Tri Cities Repeater Association

• W6FM Repeater System

• YASME Foundation

• Young Ladies' Radio League