Trail's 'Birthday' Observed at POTA Hotspot
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- Written by: Rick Nichols
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.
KCBARC Hams Return to Ensor
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- Written by: Rick Nichols
POTA 3-fer at Lone Elm Park
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- Written by: Jim Andera - K0NK
A “3-fer” is what the Parks-on-the-Air (POTA) community calls an amateur-radio activation from a site that consists of three park-type entities. On Saturday, October 9th, the SFTARC operated as a POTA 3-fer from Olathe’s Lone Elm Park, simultaneously activating three National Historic Trails: The Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trails. With three stations on the air simultaneously, SFTARC members let the rest of the world “visit” the Lone Elm Park over the air.
Lone Elm Park
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- Written by: Joe Krout - KRØUT
Source: From the HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY ED BLAIR, Published in 1915
Santa Fe Trail Marker at Lone Elm Camp Ground
Of the five Santa Fe Trail markers for Johnson county, provided by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the legislature of Kansas, the one unveiled at Lone Elm, November 9, 1906, was the second to be placed in position in this county, and it might be said here that Newton Ainsworth, one of the original old settlers, and through whose farm the trail ran, together with George Black, were mainly instrumental in getting the marker located at Lone Elm. An appropriate program that had been arranged, and was carried out. Mr. Ainsworth delivered the following address :
Loretta's Legacy Lives On
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- Written by: Marty - KE0PEZ and Rick Nichols
Jen Albright, KE0VFG, Just Outside the Ensor Radio RoomThirty years after her death at the age of 87, radio station W9UA crackled to life on Saturday, September 11 at Ensor Park and Museum to honor the life and legacy of Loretta Ensor.