[CC-ARES-RACES] Veteran's Day/General LeMay's Birthday Event, Special Event Station

[JD Delancy]

Thanks to SMARC and Jack for sharing

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Subject:  [SMARC] - Veteran's Day/General LeMay's Birthday Event, Special Event
Station
    Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 21:27:43 -0500
    From: SMARC BROADCAST <smarc@qsl.net>

The following was retrieved from:   
http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=3&t=22712

To recognize Veterans Day and General Curtis E. LeMay's birthday this 
year, the Strategic Air Command Memorial Amateur Radio Club (SACMARC) 
Will be operating K�GRL on November 11th, 2002 from 1200 hours to 2400 
hours Zulu (UTC).  The station will operate in the General phone bands 
on or near to the following frequencies  ending in 47 (for 1947 when the 
Air Force became a single entity)  3.947, 7.247, 14.247, 21.347, & 
28.347, whichever band seems to be open best to most locations. Also 
look for us on 51.47MHZ.  We will also be on 146.46 simplex for local 
folks.  You should also listen to the 3905 Century Club WAS Net in the 
evening.

Originally assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 
sometime during the Cold War, K�GRL was the personal amateur radio 
callsign of General Curtis E. LeMay when he was the Strategic Air 
Command, Commander, ( CINCSAC ) and assigned to Offutt Air Force Base. 
(Offutt, near Omaha Nebraska, was the Headquarters base for the former 
Strategic Air Command or SAC, 1946-1992, now reorganized into a unified 
command called USSTRATCOM) and was used by him until the late 1950's. 
The General received K4FRA when he went to Washington, D.C., to be the 
USAF Vice Chief of Staff (later Chief of Staff), and retired in 
California with W6EZV. The original Nebraska callsign, K�GRL, had long 
since lapsed and was unassignable under FCC rules for several decades. 
Recent changes in FCC rules, including the adoption of a Vanity Callsign 
Program, offered the opportunity for SAC veterans, and other members of 
the local amateur radio community, to recover that callsign in memory of 
SAC and military communications history. With the gracious consent of 
the LeMay family, including the General's daughter, Mrs. Jane LeMay 
Lodge, K�GRL was taken down from history's attic, dusted off, and 
returned to active use in May of 1997.

To receive a K�GRL QSL card (after contact, of course), Please visit the 
SACMARC Home Page <http://www.sacmarc.org>.Contact information and 
mailing address are listed there also. Please include an 'SASE' with 
your QSL card. K�GRL is also good in the current call book and on qrz.com.