Albany Amateur Radio Club

06/08/2026

05/07/2026

📡 Not everyone becomes a Ham. Because not everyone thinks this way.

Most people walk past a radio tower and never give it a second thought. They don’t wonder how it works. They don’t feel the pull. They don’t lie awake thinking about propagation, or what band is open, or whether that faint signal in the noise is someone calling CQ from the other side of the world.

But you do.

That’s not an accident. That’s who you ARE.
Ham radio doesn’t recruit. It doesn’t advertise. It doesn’t beg for your attention. It just exists — quietly — waiting for the right kind of mind to discover it.

The kind of mind that needs to understand, not just use.

The kind that finds peace in the static and purpose in the signal.

The kind that wants real connection — not followers, not likes — but a human voice, crossing thousands of miles on nothing but physics and a wire in the air.

You studied. You tested. You earned your callsign.

And the moment you made that first contact — you knew.

You were always supposed to be here.

The hobby didn’t find you by accident.

Physics. Patience. Purpose. Connection.

73 📻

04/02/2026

01/26/2026

Winter Field Day is in the books. Great weekend on the radio.

12/03/2025

Myself KM4SAG and Jamie KJ4OPY took part in a full scale exercise with the public health department providing auxiliary communications for the exercise. Perfect time to show what amateur radio can do in times of disaster.

07/23/2025

Wanted to give a huge thank you to club member, Billye KR4AZF for her talents and making this amazing reel from the weather radio event at Ace Hardware last week. We appreciate the work you put into this.

07/17/2025

Many thanks to WALB News 10 for putting this on and thanks for having us from the Albany Amateur Radio Club helping in programming customers noaa weather radios. Stay weather aware especially this time of the year.

07/16/2025

please join WALB and ACE Hardware for a weather safety event, Thursday July 17th from 10am to 2pm at ACE Hardware at Oakland.

WALB’s First Alert Weather Team and HAM Radio operators will be on hand programming NOAA weather radios. Radios will be available for purchase @ a discount of $39.99. We’ll also reprogram existing radios .

Hope to see you this Thursday @ ACE Hardware @ Oakland .

06/29/2025

Another fun field day in the books. Tried some new antennas, operated some new modes, had good with good company. Until next year.