The Goddard Amateur Radio Club (GARC) is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Its club call sign is WA3NAN, and it was founded in 1968 by NASA employees. The club focuses heavily on space-related amateur radio, HF, satellites, technical experimentation, education, and public-service communications.

Useful current operating information:

• 2-meter repeater: 146.835 MHz output / 146.235 MHz input
• PL tone: none required
• EchoLink: WA3NAN-R, node 40045
• Daily social net: noon Eastern
• Weekly club/service net: Thursday at 9:00 PM Eastern
• The repeater is on the Goddard Space Flight Center water tower and is reported to cover the Washington, D.C. metro area, Northern Virginia, and toward Baltimore.

The club also has HF stations, VHF/UHF satellite facilities, and a radio test/development lab, and has supported ARISS contacts between schools and the International Space Station. Historically, WA3NAN was particularly well known for retransmitting Space Shuttle air-to-ground audio on amateur frequencies.

Visit the GARC website: Goddard Amateur Radio Club — WA3NAN