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Trains and Planes\&and 'Hams' At It Again:

Posted: 30 Oct 2016 05:13 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37878


There was an abundance of activity in and around Gardner Junction Oct. 22
during a special event marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment
of the National Park Service. The event, National Parks on the Air, brought
about a dozen members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club to the
two-acre park a mile west of Gardner at US-56 and 183rd Street, where, over
a six-hour period, they attempted to make contact with as many other
amateur radio operators as possible from two voice stations and a
continuous wave (i.e., Morse code) station. The voice stations, one a
20-meter station and the other a 40-meter station, were positioned next to
the kiosk where visitors can view exhibits about the three national
historic trails that divided near Gardner, the Santa Fe, Oregon and
California trails. Situated off in the distance, so it wouldn't interfere
with the operation of the voice stations, the CW station had as its home
the cab of a truck. The amateur radio operators, or "hams," used four
frequencies, 7.240, 14.040, 14.240 and 18.140 MHz, in their efforts to hook
up with others over the airways. By 3 p.m., when NPOTA officially ended,
each voice station had logged more than 100 contacts, one of which,
credited to the 20-meter station, was the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial
Park located in Mobile, Ala. All the while, Burlington Northern Santa Fe
freight trains rolled up and down the tracks just beyond the highway at
frequent intervals, and light aircraft that had just taken off from or were
preparing to land at nearby Gardner Municipal Airport were a common sight.


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Posted: 30 Oct 2016 05:14 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37877


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