The Madison County Amateur Radio Club, Inc. was started in the late 1940’s as the Anderson Radio Amateurs Club. The name was changed and the club incorporated in 1952.
The club has always been closely associated with the Madison County Civil Defense/Emergency Management Agency. Regular Club meetings were held at the Emergency Operations Center; first at Linwood, then the temporary EOC on Mounds Road, and currently the EOC/Central Dispatch Center on the north side of downtown Anderson. The CD/EMA Directors were licensed amateurs and all were active in the MCARC:
In the early years of Civil Defense the primary focus was upon communication and warning and amateur radio and the club provided that capability. With the exception of one “commercial radio” in the EOC and Mobile EOC all were amateur radios/antennas.
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