Kingsport Amateur Radio Club Bays Mountain Radio Club
K4NRI/KARC/BMRC Antenna Cluster On Bays Mountain Kingsport Tennessee
Ken Klotz, W4IJK, Programming Repeater
Annual Picnic 2021
The meeting is the club's annual picnic. August 12, 6pm at the Eastman cabins, shelter #9. Please, members and family members are all welcome. Just let us know how many in your party and what you plan to bring for food. The club will provide burgers and dogs, you bring a dish to add to it.
I will have updates so that everyone will not bring the same things. I am using my gmail account. WB4RLJ@gmail.com. So, please let me know if you are going to be there. Need this info as soon as possible.
Rick
WB4RLJ
KARC President
Field Day 2021 Warrior Path State Park Shelter 3
John, KJ4ZFK, David, KI4AAU, Making Those Early Morning Contacts
Field Day Captain Dustin McClure, KO4LBE, says that W4TRC had another successful Field Day this year. Good attendance, great fellowship, lots of visitors, plenty of food.
30 CW contacts
228 Phone contacts
118 Digital contacts.
Total contacts is 376
Sections contacted are as follows: OH, NC, GA, VA, TN, MI, WPA, AL, MDC, EPA, NFL, WV, ENY, IL, KY, NH, WI, IN, SC, NTX, SNJ, STX, WNY, CT, DE, ME, MN, VT, WCF, CO, IA, LAX, NLI, NNJ, OK, ONE, RI, SFL, GTA, ONN, ONS, WMA, AB, AR, AZ, EMA, EWA, KS, LA, MAR, MO, MS, MT, ND, NNY, OR, ORG, PR, QC, SV, UT, WWA, and 1 DX. This makes a total of 63 areas, with only 21 areas not hit.
New Tower
Chris Early, N6MMX, has donated this brand new 60 foot tower to our club. Ken Klotz, W4IJk, and Neil Weber, KM4NWH, are in the planning stages of having it erected. The tower will support the 900mhz, 2m and 440 bands.
Thank you Chris, for this tremendous gift to our club!!!