Red River Radio Amateurs

By any metric, the New York Marathon is an immense production. The 50,000+ runners who are starting the race on Sunday November 3 make this the world’s largest marathon. Their route will take them through all five of the city’s boroughs, from the starting line on Staten Island up through Brooklyn and Queens, across the Queensboro Bridge to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, north into the Bronx and then back down along the east side of Central Park to the finish line in the Park itself.

A few more radio operators are needed to fully staff the 2024 Fargo Marathon aid stations net and ensure that we can fulfill our commitment.

You can volunteer to support this event—and YOUR amateur radio club—by subscribing to the Marathon Mailing List

Five more radio operators are needed to fully staff the 2024 Fargo Marathon aid stations net.

You can volunteer to support this event—and YOUR amateur radio club—by subscribing to the Marathon Mailing List

On April 15, 2024, Zoe MacDiarmid of The Huntington News—The Independent Student Newspaper of The Northeastern University—reported on the radio operators who connect all 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon.

RRRA has been called upon to provide aid station communications for the 2024 Fargo Marathon on Saturday, June 1st.

This is an excellent training opportunity for hams interested in event/incident communications and directed net operations.

Radio operators are needed to support approximately 16 aid stations and medical drop-out stations.