'Elmers' offering 24-hour ham radio field day at Peabody Public Library this Saturday, Sunday
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The Whitley County Amateur Radio Club will participate in field day from a camp set up in the grove in front of the Peabody Public Library on June 28-29.
The club welcomes new members especially youth. The public is invited to sit with an experienced, licensed radio operator (an ‘ELMER’) and make contact with a radio operator across the country or in Canada or Mexico.
Learn about radio basics and etiquette, Morse Code, and how to get started with amateur radio. This is a 24-hour event starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday and finishing at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
There are 650,000 amateur radio licensees in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world.
Through the ARRL’s ARES program, ham volunteers provide emergency communications for thousands of state and local emergency response agencies, all for free. To learn more about Amateur Radio, visit www.emergency-radio.org.
The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams and see what modern amateur radio can do. They can even help you get on the air!
ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event in amateur radio. Tens of thousands of amateur radio operators gather for a public demonstration of service. Field day is part educational event, part operating event, part public relations event.
For further information check out the Whitley County Amateur Radio Club website at www.wcarc.org