The West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG) and the Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) have agreed to a unique partnership in sharing ideas, activities, and best practices to better encourage the growth and development of each other’s amateur radio club.

WPBARG (http://www.wpbarg.com) currently has approximately eighty members and meets regularly at the Cox Science Center and Aquarium in West Palm Beach. FLARC (http://www.fairlawnarc.org) has approximately 175 members and has a clubhouse as part its association with the Borough of Fair Lawn. Both clubs are visible within their communities, and each brings its own set of diverse assets to the experiment. WPBARG recently shared a program on radio balloons built by local students with the assistance of WPBARG club members with FLARC.

The first planned steps are to increase overall contact with each other on a regular basis via meetings, exchanges of communications and the development of a potential joint program or project. The informal agreement will last for one year.

Local clubs, of course, do get together on projects, but this is believed to be the first planned experiment in mutual development between clubs separated geographically, by size and by club culture.