New-Look Trailer Serves Club Well at Ensor Event
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Del Sawyer, foreground, and Marty Peters in action
A Special Operating Event at Ensor Park and Museum marking the 81st anniversary of the presentation of the 1940 Paley Award to Marshall Ensor, W9BSP, brought several members of the club to the site Saturday, June 4.
But the "star of the show," if you will, may well have been the club's mobile trailer, which has undergone some important changes in recent weeks thanks to Greg Wolfe, KIØKK, former club president, and others who have helped him with the project.
Before club members Marty Peters, KEØPEZ, secretary-treasurer, Del Sawyer, KØDDS, Bob Shaumeyer, KCØTZX, and Robert Orr, KCØKDG, ever took to the airways in search of contacts using Marshall's pre-World War II call sign, W9BSP, they were given a tour of the new-look trailer by Greg, who basically showed the operators and/or loggers what had changed on the interior and how they could best go about using the available space to their advantage.
Over a period of approximately three hours or so, our hams made 20 single-sideband contacts in the U.S. on 20 and 40 meters, and Del hooked up with two European special-event stations on 15 meters, one in England and another station in Italy.
Trailer Upgrade
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For the past month several club members have been working on updating the club trailer and doing some routine maintenance. Thanks to everyone who worked on the project or donated to the project.
Club Marks Kansas Day at SMAF
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Marty, Bob, Howard and Del in Action on Kansas DayJanuary 29, Kansas Day, happened to fall on a Saturday this year, so several members of the club took full advantage of the opportunity and headed for what has been dubbed "Sawyer Memorial Antenna Farm" (SMAF) in Edgerton to carry out a special event marking the occasion.
Holiday Party
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The time was the evening of Saturday, December 11, the place the Garden Senior Citizen Community Center, and the occasion the 2021 Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club Christmas Party.
More than 15 people gathered in downtown Gardner for the annual year-end event, where those present enjoyed meats prepared by Smokey Hill Catering's Tony Johnson, KD0KLD, and a variety of side dishes furnished by other members of the club.
Lone Elm Park POTA Video
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The site of a popular campground in the days of the covered wagons, Olathe's Lone Elm Park became what club member Jim Andera, K0NK, called a "POTA 3-fer" on Saturday, October 9 when he and other members of the club participated in a special event roughly coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Santa Fe Trail.
Tom, WA2IVD, created a short YouTube Video of the event.