By Mark, KD5DLL The 2003 Indian Nation Councils Boy Scout Camporee has concluded. After many months of meeting and test runs of amateur radio equipment the event was a huge success. There were just under 2000 pre-registered Troops and an unknown number of show-up Troops to the largest event the Indian Nations Council holds, according to Bobby Shultz of the BSA office in Tulsa. The Tulsa Amateur Radio Club handled the net control operations of amateurs as well as for the BSA Staff from the mobile Emergency Communications trailer. Setup began Friday at 9:00 am and the net started at […]

By Dave Lugo, W5TAV The weather was hot, the air was muggy, but it was time for the annual event known around the world to all ham radio operators as Field Day. After months of preparation, the time was at hand to sit back and see if everything would work as planned. Field Day is an annual event that is always held the last weekend in June. During the event anyone, weather licensed by the FCC or not can come in and operate a “Radio Station” and see for themselves what Ham Radio is all about. It is a nice […]

These pictures were extracted from ATV video. Helicopter owned by Chris, KC5BEJ. Field Day 2002 By Gregg Wonderly, W5GGW Well, it’s over! Field Day 2002 was very busy with lots of activities and we made some QSOs to boot! On Friday afternoon, we were able to get all of the HF equipment that was there set up and working. We had 2 beams, a Gap vertical, a 15m vertical ground plane, and a 40m quad and a 40m trap vertical up and running by the end of the evening. We had a light rain shower in the late afternoon that […]

Route 66 On The Air Special Event September 8th-16th 2007 W6L