Jamboree On The Air 2016 ~ BSARC
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Veteran expert at high speed Morse code in seven different dialects including Klingon and Romulon, Bruce Jaeger [KE7TDR]...

...teaches the basics of A, B, Cs � Go Bruce!
Brad Hyde [W5BK] explains Amateur Radio to two Scout Leaders and one volunteer (Thomas) using visual aids. Later he will get zapped by an antenna lead to demostrate the inherent dangers of HAM radio!
Brad's students listen intently at his rambling on. They are captivated like the deer that wanders into the headlights at night, unable to look away...
Marvin Gross [KE5EUR] however has the amulet of focus, allowing him to avoid Brad's charisma and oversee the Morse code lesson in progress.

Focus Marivn - focus...
Journeyman Liz [WG3CKO] once again tries her Jedi blur trick as she attempts to avoide photonic detection from a charged coupled device (CCD). But she's not blurred fast enough to escape time capture. Practice young Jedi - practice.
Seasoned tracker boy scout John Michael stands proud after rescuing a fallen hiker in the high plains of the Serengeti � Marvin [KE5EUR ] radios in for rescue helicopters.
< Brain and Pinky had just left us with their plan to take over the world while we collectively disagree on the validity of such plan. To no avail we unanimously decided to quit the deliberation and subject the Boy Scouts (Starting with Justin) to a strange form of torture!
So we had them item by item take pennies out of a cooler filled with ice cold water to demonstarte how quickly hypothermia can set in. We didn't do it - but we watched - Ha! :) >
< Boy Scout Justin engages Pepper [WF1RE] in highly technical discourse as Liz [WG3CKO] watches on in astonishment and wonder. Pepper is amazed and transfixed. Lo to those who don't radio.
Brad [W5BK] and John Michael deep in discussion on Morse code. Those young minds just eat up knowledge don't they. Maybe he is our next club president. Humm... :) >
< A general state of noramlly expected disarray and recombination of this-and-that as the day starts to dwindle down. Great fellowship!
Brad's [W5BK] sacrificial fingers resort to another rig after getting a pretty dang good zap from the HF antenna lead going into our ICom - bye bye radio, we just got to know you. >



This image came out small because John Michael was doing something wrong. Take after take rendered this dinky image. He tried jumping up and down, holding his mouth just right, and a bunch of other things... >








< ...Until we collectively, using the scientific method, discovered it was becuase he was holding his right leg wrong... And then whamola! We wound up with this great picture!











The Jamboree was a blast and everyone had a great time.
Special thanks to all the participants from the club and we hope you all
come back and do it again next year! 73s! So who are the bad guys?
Brad Hyde           [W5BK]
Marvin Gross      [KE5EUR]
Liz Gross         [WG3CKO]
Pepper Sullivan    [WF1RE]
And Thomas - and of coures the cameraman - KG5CCT.
Oh yeah - and there is a serect easter egg in the page.
Did you find it, because our illustrious, magnanimous, wholly
modest leader and club president, Lloyd [W5LND] - promises
exceedingly undeserved merit and recognition above and beyond reason;
with a gift of chocolate covered frozen banannas if you did!

Not really.




"HAM Radio is a hobby.
Emergency radio is a responsibility."
~ David Overton [KF5WDJ] 2016