The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) and the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG) recently held a series of joint HF club contacts in February and March. The clubs, which agreed in late 20222 to a unique one-year partnership, have begun sharing ideas, activities, and best practices to better encourage the growth and development of each other’s amateur radio clubs and have also extended their fraternal relationship by participating in club nets, programs, newsletters, and initiatives such as youth and new member development. Both clubs are enthusiastic about the new relationship and satisfied with the progress made to date. Experiments in slow scan television were part of the recent March HF contact exchange. WPBARG (www.wpbarg.com) currently has approximately eighty members and meets regularly at the Cox Science Center and Aquarium in West Palm Beach. FLARC (www.fairlawnarc.org) has approximately 225 members and has an operating clubhouse as part its association with the Borough of Fair Lawn just outside of New York City. Both clubs are highly visible within their communities, and each brings its own set of diverse assets to the experiment. For more information, contact Mike Mathias K1WX (WPBARG) at mjm@k1wx.com or Ed Efchak WX2R (FLARC) at wx2r@arrl.net.
