The DeKalb/Cannon County Amateur Radio Club was formed in 2000, as a result of Amateur Radio Operators in the DeKalb & Cannon  County, Tennessee area desiring to form a club. The club callsign honors a Middle Tennessee ham, Mr. James P. Turner SK (AB4ZB; ex N4VGG; KC4BSZ) of McMinnville, TN, a friend of various club members and hams in the area.   The Purpose for which the DeKalb/Cannon County Amateur Radio Club is organized is to secure the benefits and pleasures of the association of persons commonly interested in Amateur Radio in DeKalb/Cannon and surrounding Counties, to further the exchange of information and cooperation between members, to support local Amateur Radio repeaters, to promote radio knowledge, fraternalism, and individual operating efficiency, to serve the public as a valuable, voluntary, noncommercial communications service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications and to so conduct club programs and activities as to advance the general interest and welfare of Amateur Radio in the community.(Excerpted from the FCC Rules and Regulations for the Amateur Radio Service, Part 97, Subpart A – General Provisions, 97.1, Basis and purpose, (a).)