How Do I Join?
Membership in Intertie, Inc. is open to all licensed Radio
Amateurs, regardless of age, sex, color, creed or national origin.
Membership application is initiated by written request of the applicant
and must be accompanied by a photocopy of your FCC Amateur License and
a check or money order for the current year's dues, sent to our office
at 5805 Callaghan Road, Suite 100, San Antonio, Texas 78228. To
contact us send an email to Larry Higgins, W5EX, with the email button
below if you have any questions.
To initiate the application process, we suggest that you contact
a member of the Board of Directors. (Listed below). We meet informally
each week at an inexpensive restaurant in the San Antonio area. We will
give you particulars of this meeting when you call, so that you might
join us. We will be happy to visit with applicants from other Texas
cities at mutually agreeable times. We have Members living near most of
our sites.
Email :
W5EX@intertie.org with this link.
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Phone Us at 210-244-4988 anytime, leave
contact information.
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Boy, that's a big operation - Who pays for
it?
In a word, we pay our own way. As a (501)(c)(3) not-for-profit
educational, scientific charitable organization, we are exempt from
federal and state taxes. We do accept donations of radio transmitting
and receiving equipment or cash. But we operate on a relatively meagre
budget supported by Member dues and pledges. We build a majority of our
operating equipment. All Members donate their time in construction and
maintenance of the System.
What do you give back to the community?
We stand ready to provide emergency communications wherever needed -
within our operating area (which is pretty huge). We are regular
participants in local and regional disaster planning, drills and
operations. Most of our sites have backup emergency power.
We have published the results of some of our research in national
scientific media. In conducting ongoing research, we train amateurs in
more advanced communications theory and operations. This has proved to
be quite entertaining (visits to some awesome scenery on private and
public real estate), as well as a learning experience for all of us,
grey hairs included.
Members teach classes to fledgling radio operators, serve on regional
and national committees dealing with radio frequency matters, serve as
officers in the Texas VHF FM Society www.txvhffm.org.