Beaches Amateur Radio Society

The Beaches Amateur Radio Society (BARS) is an association of amateur radio operators living in and around the beaches of Jacksonville, FL. The beaches include Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, Jacksonville Beach and Ponte Vedra Beach.  All persons with any interest in learning about amateur radio are welcome to any of our events!

We meet every month on the 4th Thursday evening of the month. Typically we meet at the Pablo Creek branch of the Jacksonville library system. 

We also have a regular breakfast meeting on the first Saturday of each month. We meet at the Golden Corral on Beach Blvd., just west of San Pablo Road.

Our regular meetings include radio oriented discussions and some kind of educational program and are open to the public. If you want to learn more about amateur radio and becoming a “Ham”, please attend one of our meetings!

We are good communicators! If you are having a public event where safety and and communications are important, we may be able to help. Hams assist in events such as triathlons, bike races, parades, foot races and air shows. Of course all that practice is just preparing us for the emergencies that we hope will never happen. Let us know if we can help with your event. 

BARS owns and operates one of the amateur radio repeaters at the Beaches of Jacksonville. Our repeater operates on 145.35 and is open to the all amateur operators. If you would like to help support our efforts to maintain repeater coverage at the Beaches, please join BARS!

If you are a new ham and would like to borrow some equipment to get started with please join BARS and take advantage of our equipment loaner program.

We announce meetings, gatherings and special events through the following social networking sites.

Next Meeting

There will be no regular meeting in January.

Our next meeting will be Thursday, February  27, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Pablo Creek branch of the Jacksonville Library. (map)

Breakfast Meeting

The next breakfast meeting will be on Saturday, Feb 1, 2014 at the Golden Corral on Beach Blvd (map).
All are welcome!

No, it's not your radio

The BARS VHF repeater at 145.35 Mhz is not on the air right now. It has been taken down for maintenance work.