About CORE

The C.O.R.E. group is, as the name suggests, a group of radio enthusiasts organized to support public service events and provide emergency and disaster communications in Clarksville and surrounding areas of Tennessee and Kentucky.

We are an ARRL Affilliated Amateur Radio club, but we don’t buy into the exclusive or elitist approach. Depending upon the event or mission, all radio enthusiasts have something to offer. We understand that when things go bad, we all help the best way we can.

C.O.R.E has regularly scheduled meetings on the second Thursday of each month, at 6:30 pm.  Location for the time being is at the Red Cross Chapter on Riverside Drive in Clarksville.  We also have a monthly Meet and Greet Net at 7 pm on the first Thursday of each month on our K4ORE 146.925 Repeater.

We have no membership dues and we resist the trappings of a more traditional club.

We are a group of committed individuals who do radio because we enjoy it and feel it is important. We have all reached a basic level of training and maintain that level of proficiency to ensure when the call comes out we are up to the task. Many members have completed at least the Red Cross Introduction to Disaster Services course as well as many others. All the above training is free except for the ARRL courses. We also take and recommend the FEMA courses, which are free on the Web or by mail. Our commitment to training and preparedness requires more in time than money, we don’t want to place financial burden as an obstacle to potential members therefore we have no real minimum equipment requirements. After all, building a killer station in your vehicle isn’t all that hard if you’ve got the money to throw at the task.  So, if you are interested in joining a group that does all in its power to KNOW that it is ready when disaster strikes, contact one of our current members for more information.

We support the public service events we like. The process for supporting an event is simple. A member sees an event he/she would like to support and puts together a team to handle the mission.  As you probably guessed, they get to be in charge.

We try to keep the fun in radio while providing communications support for disasters or events. This is very important to us because if it becomes a chore people will find other things to do with their time.

So, if radio is or might be your thing, or you are just interested in what it’s all about- read on. We welcome new group members- with this group it’s never the same crew twice.