The Tacoma Radio Club is celebrating its 100th anniversary!
The club currently has about 300 members.
Here is an excerpt from an online article:
"RCT members, young and old, hail from all over the South Sound. And when your 400 googleherz of megaram fails and the Y2K bug finally burrows in and shorts out “the grid,” it’ll be these amateur radio operators who’ll keep the information flowing and help get things back online."
The Radio Club of Tacoma's clubhouse looks like any other home in the 1200 block of South Washington Street – except for the giant antenna that looms over the entire neighborhood. The clubhouse is home to a library of vintage radio operating manuals and a museum of antique radios as well as some of the club’s current broadcasting equipment. And it’s open to the public for a few hours every Saturday.
One thing that is interesting to note is that while knowing the morse code is no longer a requirement, a lot of the club members still practice it.
source
The News Tribune
The News Tribune
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