Birmingham Amateur Radio Club maintains a radio room with an ICOM 761 and a trapped dipole for 10,15 and 20 meters, tunable to work 80 and 40 meters also, at the Hoover Community Education Center in Bluff Park.
T here are two HF operating positions.
A portable amateur satellite station is available, if needed. The BARC station is put to good use during severe weather as well as other emergencies when club members volunteer to help by providing badly needed communications. The station also provides members with a good contest station and is used for many other operating activities. BARC maintains a VHF and UHF FM station at the National Weather Service located at the Shelby County Airport. This capability, along with the linking possibilities of local amateur repeaters, provides the timely reports of severe weather that the Weather Service uses to issue warnings.