Amateur Radio Club - Paul Bunyan Amateur Radio Club

Provides severe weather reporting (Skywarn), emergency communications support service to Beltrami County for over 30 years. Whenever severe weather threatens, club members are paged by the National Weather Beltrami County Emergency Operations Center. Members immediately go to preplanned locations throughout the county where they radio directly to the National Weather Service radar operators in Grand Forks to provide advance warning of weather conditions to the citizens of the county. The club also maintains and operates the Beltrami County Emergency Communications Trailer which is a mobile command and communications center for law enforcement, fire, ambulance, and other emergency and public service responce. United Way has provided essential funding for the purchase and maintenance of the equipment required to operate the Skywarn system emergency communications/mobile command trailer. Although the individual club members donate their time and the use of their time and the use of their own radio equipment for these public service activites, the support of United Way is vital to meet the high cost of the special equipment radio link to the National Weather Service and the emergency communication used in the mobile command post.

05/14/2026