Field Day 2025
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- Written by: Greg Wolfe
The Santa Fe Amateur Radio Club from Olathe will be hosting the 2025 ARRL Field Day event at Ensor Park and Museum located at 18995 W 183rd St, Olathe, KS 66062. The park is where the Marshall Ensor homestead was located during his life and while he was a teacher at Olathe High School, now Olathe North High School.
The ARRL Field Day event will be on June 28 and June 29, 2025. The operators will begin making contacts at 1pm, June 28 and will operate until 3pm, June 29.
Join us for POTA on the Prairie
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- Written by: J Andera (KØNK)
Saturday, May 17th is the date the SFTARC plans to go on a mini-DXpedition to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve for a day of Parks-on-the-Air (POTA) operating. The Tallgrass is located near Strong City, KS, about 100 miles southwest of Olathe. SFTARC club members as well as guests are invited to participate.
Winter Field Day, Anyone?
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- Written by: Rick Nichols
The photograph accompanying this story captured the scene at Ensor Park and Museum the morning of Saturday, January 11, which was just six days after a massive winter storm that produced blizzard-like conditions at times deposited several inches of snow in Olathe, many other locations across Kansas and Missouri, and elsewhere.
The 103-Degree Telegraph Office
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It was hot on Sunday, August 25th, at the Hollenberg Pony Express Festival near Hanover, KS--103°F hot to be precise. However, festival visitors still got to witness a working “Telegraph Office” in the form of a ham radio HF station operating the under a shade tree and using the callsign of KØASA. This Telegraph-Office display was just one of many displays at the festival depicting life in early America.
The Hollenberg Pony Express Station is the only Pony Express station in the nation that has been preserved and left on its original foundation. KFØIKQ photo.
Jim uses a bow and arrow to launch a thin rope over the tree for the far-end support for the EFHW antenna. KFØIKQ photo.
Field Day Doubles As Club Social
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The predicted heat that didn't disappoint and an ill-timed shower of the garden variety that shut down the regular CW station made good and sure Field Day 2024 had a down side. But on a positive note, visitor logs with plenty of names on them were proof that the annual event at Ensor Park and Museum one, fulfilled some sort of a need, and two, certainly brought people together over a 24-hour period.