Field Day - Setup
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- Written by: G Wolfe (KIØKK)
SFTARC ready for Field Day 2024 with our new trailer mounted crank up tower.
Join us for Field Day at Ensor Museum and Farmstead on Saturday or Sunday.
Field Day 2024 - Come Be Radio Active With Your Club
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- Written by: George McCarville
For many Amateur Radio Operators, Field Day is a highlight of the year
Peg KDØVQO and Ed KUØRTZ Operating Field Day If you haven't had your share of HF radio activity at home this year, this is your chance to "Be Radio Active". This year, we want members who have not been as active as they'd like to be to join in setting up and running the stations. ARRL Field Day is one of the largest operating events for amateur operators and radio clubs across America, with some contacts in foreign countries. It has been an annual event since it's start back in 1933, and provides an opportunity to practice emergency preparedness skills aimed at supporting the public in times of disaster when normal communications infrastructures fail. SFTARC has made it essentially a yearly event since the club was founded. In the earlier years, it was set up in various parks; however, since the 1980s, it has been held at the Ensor Park and Museum.
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Club Plans to "Be Radio Active" in June
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- Written by: Rick Nichols
As fate would have it apparently, the American Radio Relay League's Field Day 2024 will get underway the very same day Marshall Ensor, 9BSP/W9BSP/W0BSP, would have turned 125 were he still with us, and members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club will be participating in this popular annual event as they join with fellow hams from across the country in fine-tuning their diverse communication skills for possible use in a future emergency.
The ARRL has chosen the quasi-directive "Be Radio Active" as the theme for this year's Field Day, which is scheduled to take place Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23. And the seasoned operators of the SFTARC intend to do just that over the two-day period as they strive to make as many contacts as possible through multiple modes and under the club call sign of KSØKS.
The SFTARC is Recognized by the National Park Service
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- Written by: Jim Andera (KØNK)
Every year, just like clockwork, the SFTARC has brough a little bit of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve to the rest of the amateur radio world. At the same time, we have brought the amateur radio into the public view. Those efforts have not gone unnoticed or unappreciated. As proof, the National Park Service has presented the SFTARC with a Volunteers-In-Parks Certificate to recognize our club's efforts for our May 2023 operation from the Tallgrass.
Some years the KS0KS call sign is used from the Tallgrass as a Special Event Station, with times and frequencies published in QST Magazine
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Come One, Come All, to the Tallgrass Prairie
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- Written by: Jim Andera K0NK
Experience the fun of participating in a mini-DXpedition.
- Destination: The Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, 100 miles SW of Olathe near Strong City.
- When: Saturday, April 27th. NOW May 4th (postponed 1 week due to severe weather potential).
The plan is to depart Gardner at 6 am and arrive at the Tallgrass around 10 am. We will return to Johnson County in the late afternoon.