HF Operating Event

Open to all hams!

GARA will be hosting an HF operating event on Saturday, April 26 beginning at 9:00am. Our host, Melanie Meeks, KQ4EKR, has made her family farm available for our club to use for the day. There are restrooms and other facilities easily available on premises. When you arrive, continue down the driveway past the banquet venues and past the blueberry patch to the end of the road.  Parking will be easy to spot. If there is inclement weather, we will setup in the banquet hall instead.

This event will be somewhat informal in that you’re encouraged to bring your own portable HF gear to setup and work alongside everyone else!  Even though we won’t be at a park, we will all operate “POTA-style” with portable radios, antennas and power, but we will all use a common callsign.  Come anytime throughout the day, set up your radio and have some fun.  We will coordinate who is operating where and when to make sure we don’t interfere with each other.  Feel free to invite other hams too – it isn’t an event only meant for GARA members – and we would love to have as many people participate as possible.

In addition to the operating event, we would like to invite you to bring any gear you’re interested in selling to the “GARA Swapfest” from 10am until noon.  If you have enough gear, feel free to bring a table and setup to exhibit it all!  GARA will have our trailer and the remaining donated gear for sale, also.  Even if you’re not selling anything, bring a little cash, because you never know what kind of a deal you might find.

You can email info@w4gso.org with any questions. Thanks, and we hope to see you there!

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