Club Hams Fan Out for Field Day
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- Written by: Rick Nichols
SFTARC Field Day 2021 SSB Station
Members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club (KS0KS) went at the business at hand, making as many contacts as possible, from three different locations during Field Day 2021 June 26 and 27. We did have to dodge a few rain showers while setting up, but outside of that the weather more-or-less cooperated.
Most of the members who participated in this annual Amateur Radio preparedness exercise did so at Olathe's Ensor Park and Museum, where three operating stations, each with its own antenna, were set up. One station, used for CW and digital, was set up inside the club's trailer.
Tallgrass Special Event - National Parks Communications
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- Written by: G Wolfe - KI0KK
Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club received a letter from The National Park Service thanking the club for our volunteer hours that we performed on Saturday, April 21, 2019. The SFTARC operated a mini-DXpediton to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City, KS.
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The Trip to Dayton
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Charissa & Kelly
"The Trip to Dayton" is the title of an up-tempo song The Ham Band recorded in 2012, but more important it's "a trip that came together," to use her words, for Kelly Stanfield, W0YQG, last May when she was able to join her uncle, Joe Krout, KR0UT, and five other members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club in journeying with them to Ohio for the 2019 Dayton Hamvention.
Amid the Crisis, Hams Continue to be "radio active"
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Amid the crisis, hams continue to be "radio active"
So when you're near me
Darling, can't you hear me
SOS
The love you gave me
Nothing else can save me
SOS
- from ABBA's 1975 song "SOS"
While amateur radio operators may not be able to help you rescue that romance you've been trying to revive, they are good at long-distance relationships, especially when "social distancing"
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Club Hams Celebrate Kansas Day at Del's "Antenna Farm"
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No one heard members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club singing "Home on the Range" Saturday, Jan. 25, but amateur radio operators from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York did hear hams who belong to the Olathe-based club readily identify themselves as being Kansans during a special pre-Kansas Day event at Sawyer Memorial Antenna Park in Edgerton.
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