During the first few weeks of 2025 multiple members of the Santa Fe Trail Amateur Radio Club have been teaching the General class the club was already committed to making available to area hams or would-be hams in keeping with its established three-year rotation for possible license-oriented classes, the Technician class one year, the General class the next year and the Extra class the year after that.

      This year's General class has consistently brought several individuals to the Salvation Army facility east of downtown Olathe on Saturday mornings for the lessons. According to club member Jim Andera, K0NK, who is one of the instructors, the students include two individuals who already hold a General license but who wanted to take the class anyway in order to reacquaint themselves with the material that was going to be covered by the instructors.

     The class got underway Saturday, January 4, the day before the Big Blizzard dumped a lot of snow on the greater Kansas City area, and by Saturday, February 8, the day before the not-so-Super Bowl, had reached the halfway point and then some. In the photograph accompanying this story, which was taken on February 8, Jim Andera is pictured as he employs a demonstration to help the students better understand the subject of broadside pattern radiation. That day's lesson also included the subjects of dipoles and ground planes, gain, and the isotropic radiator, among other subjects. Also visible in the photograph is club President George McCarville, WB0CNK.