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Ham Radio Enthusiasts Connect from Steamtown:

Posted: 11 Sep 2016 05:01 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37528


For a few hours Saturday, an antenna and two ham radio rigs connected
people from places like South Dakota, Washington, Alabama and Kentucky to
the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton. About a dozen amateur
radio aficionados from the Susquehanna County Amateur Radio
Club "activated" the site as part of the National Parks on the Air program
-- a yearlong initiative celebrating the National Park Service's 100th
anniversary and promoting amateur radio. "This is great because these guys
are talking to people all over the country and they're telling them where
they're broadcasting from," said Ken Ganz, park ranger at Steamtown. "A lot
of them have never heard of Steamtown. It gets the word out there."