Club Resources

The Club makes a number of resources freely available to its members at our facility at Building 11 on the NIH campus in Bethesda. NIHRAC operates a volunteer emergency communications (EMCOMM) capability for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Most of our resources are aimed to serve these entities and the surrounding communities (see our Membership or About Us pages for more details). As part of out commitment to EMCOMM, we encourage members to get familiar with our main station and portable equipment. Members can operate the equipment for contests or just relaxing fun when it is not being used for more formal practice or operation. 

The Club resources include:

• • Rooms for meetings, presentations, and radio operating/experimenting

  • Electronics workbench, test equipment, and tools

  • Contest quality high frequency (HF) radio stations, up to 1 KW power

  • 30 foot tower on a 60 foot building with HF beam

  • Very high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) stations

  • Voice over IP to radio gateway (EchoLink)

  • Portable and fixed Winlink 2000 radio stations for email over radio

  • Computers to support digital communications via radio

  • VHF repeater 

  • Special access to a UHF repeater

  • Radios, power supplies, tuners and other equipment available for check out by club members

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