ANTRAK is a club for radio amateurs and technologically-minded people in Ankara, Turkey.

Founded on July 31, 1985 by:

Göktay Alpman TA2R

Nursun Akıncı TA2N

Ufuk Türkeri TA2AS

Ünver Ungan

Esin Ungan

Suha Aktar TA2G

Fazıl Erdim

İlker Tirben

In Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

, amateur radio

Amateur radio

Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

 was banned until late 1980s but a dedicated group of enthusiasts kept on with their hobbies. Raids by the police and Gendarmerie

Gendarmerie

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 was not uncommon but in 1983 Turkey's legislature caught up with the world and made amateur radio

Amateur radio

Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

 operations legal. Along with the CB

Citizens' band radio

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 craze, amateur radio started to flourish as well and finally legal organizations were founded.

The first two organizations were TRAC

Trac

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 and ANTRAK. TRAC is an organization country-wide but ANTRAK is strictly local to Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, the capital city of Turkey. Although it is created by Ankara's own amateurs, it has an agenda to help everyone who are interested in amateur radio and electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

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ANTRAK publishes a monthly on-line magazine, ANTRAK Gazette or ANTRAK Gazetesi.

It also has a public mailing group hosted in Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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Groups and has an electronic web-based forum served at www.antrak.org.tr.

ANTRAK also publishes the one and only Amateur Radio Guide written in Turkish, mainly to help others to pass the amateur radio examination. It contains sample test questions and basics of electronics and has helped many to gain their first licenses.