The creation of the Martin County Amateur Radio Club started with Cory Brassine, who serves on the Martin County EMA as Deputy Director, and just happens to be a ham radio operator. After our county was struck by a tornado, Cory started to develope a plan to bring Ham radio operators in our county together, with the vision of Hams being able to help out with disaster response and reporting during a disaster. Cory set the first meeting in motion by posting a message on the EMA FaceBook page asking all interested Martin County Ham Radio Operators to show up for a meeting to discuss the possibilities of creating a Amateur Radio club for our county.

On January 25, 2024 Ham Radio Operators from all over the county joined together at the Martin County EMA building for the first time. Cory shared his vision, goals and thoughts on creating a club. After a round of good and thoughtful discussions, everyone agreed we should create a Ham Radio Club. At the end of that meeting a date was set to meet up the next month and begin to create, what has now become the Martin County Amateur Radio Club. From there, history began to write itself. You can follow along as we build our club from the ground up by reading the minutes from our meetings past and also joining us for our next meeting.