Upcoming Events:
Field Day 2006
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Field Day is June 24-25, 2006 PLACE: Schroeder Park, 605 Schroeder LN, (near the tennis courts), Grants Pass, OR. 97527
CQ, CQ, CQ, Fielday, K7LIX. Come to the Amateur Radio Field Day event. Field Day is the main event in which hams all over the country set up simulated emergency stations in public areas. Using only emergency power (generator, battery, solar or similar options) they make contact with other stations all over the country and the world using a multitude of radio modes.
Thousands of Ham Radio operators will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications in emergencies world-wide. During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio - often called "Ham radio" - was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer "hams" traveled south to save lives and property. When trouble is brewing, ham radio people are often the first to provide critical information and communications. On the weekend of June 24-25, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with these ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities.
This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long "Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country. Their slogan, "Ham radio works when other systems don't!" is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, Internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 30,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event.
"We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts of the ARRL. "The communications networks that ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives in the past months when other systems failed or were overloaded."
S.O.A.R.C. will have its "Field Day" at Schroeder Park, 605 Schroeder LN, (near the tennis courts), Grants Pass, OR. 97527. We will be demonstrating Amateur Radio We invite the public to come and see ham radio's capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.
There are 660,000 Amateur Radio operators in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world. Through the ARRL, ham volunteers provide emergency communications for the DHS Citizens' Corps, Red Cross, Salvation Army, FEMA and thousands of state and local agencies, all for free.
To learn more about Amateur Radio go to: http://www.hello-radio.org The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you get on the air! (Source: http://www.arrl.org/pio/contact/2006/05/MainReleaseFD06.doc)
S.O.A.R.C. NEXT CLUB MEETING: 7:00 PM, Tuesday June 27, 2006 and July 18, 2006. Change of Meeting Location: Meetings will now be held at the Fruitdale Grange, 1440 Parkdale Dr & US 99, Grants Pass OR. Contact Club Vice President Richard J. Huttenga, KD7IA, Tel. 955-2901, email: huttenga@terragon.com, for more info.
Calling All Ladies: Western Bells Lunch Meeting: Please contact ANITA ALMSTROM (KKC7MGH)
Tel. 476-2339 email: geonita@bmi.net