Sinbad Desert Amateur radio club Christmas

By Phil Fauver Staff Writer

The Sinbad Desert Amateur Radio Club (SDARC) annual prime rib dinner and election of club officers was held December 3, 2015 at the Emery County Sheriffs Office Annex.
While eating delicious meat, potatoes, salads and desserts the group enjoyed the camaraderie of club members frequently heard or talked to by short wave radios. Many of the members attending were from Emery and Carbon Counties.
SDARC President Jeff Tucker reviewed with the group the monthly radio training update plans and campouts for the year. The SDARC meets the first Thursday of the month alternating between Carbon and Emery Counties. In the spring the club meets at a campground near the Wedge Overlook and in the fall at a campground in Cottonwood Canyon.
Future radio licensing classes were discussed and will be scheduled for anyone interested in becoming amateur radio operators. They should contact Brett Mills WX7Y at 749-7004.
Many retired men and women have found owning a ham radio and communicating with people in other parts of the world to be a very interesting hobby.
When all other forms of communication are not available ham radio operators have been able to provide emergency communications on may occasions.
Licensed radio operators may, through the use of a small low cost hand held low wattage radio, communicate throughout the intermountain west. This accomplished by utilizing radio repeaters located on mountaintops in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and Idaho.
A more expensive amateur radio can be purchased with a significant increase in wattage signal output can put the radio operator in contact with amateur radio operators around the world.
The newly elected SDARC officers are Jeff Tucker as President, Duane Johnson as North Vice President, JJ Grant as South Vice President, as Communications Officer Jim Anderson and Secretary/Treasurer Vicky Tucker.
Amateur radio is a very interesting hobby when needed provides a public service for the community.