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Ski Country Amateur Radio Club to participate in National Field Day
The 24-hour exercise will include emergency communications training, public demonstrations and contacts with more than 31,000 stations across the continent.
Since 1933, clubs and amateur radio enthusiasts throughout North America have come together to set up temporary transmitting stations in public to demonstrate the science behind ham radio and how it still remains important nearly a century later. The National Field Day event now includes over 31,000 stations throughout the continent, according to the National Association for Amateur Radio, one of them being in the Roaring Fork Valley. “It goes…