[FoxHunt] KARS NFW Fox Hunt and Hamfest

[Clay Melhorn]

Announcing the 2003 Fox Hunt Season, in Kankakee, IL

KARS - The KANKAKEE AREA RADIO SOCIETY - w9az.com
is celebrating
National Fox Hunt Weekend (NFW) 2003
on Saturday May 10th 2 PM Start

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But first, this weekend, we are having the
"KARS Warm Up" hunt
Tomorrow, Sunday, April 27th at 2PM
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Everyone is welcome to hunt, we hope to break our own record of
Eight hunt teams. Come help us achieve this goal, maybe we'll get
our photos in CQ for a third time. That would be great!
Have you seen the photo of KARS fox hunters
in the April 2003 CQ Magazine, pages 52 and 54.

If you cannot make it to the "Warm Up" hunt, or feel that you do not
know what to do,
come to the MAY KARS meeting, on Tuesday, May 6th, at 7pm.
http://www.w9az.com/meetings.html
The May program is on "Foxhunting."
We'll discuss, equipment, technique and safety.

All hunts start in front of Big Lots, in the Meadowview Shopping Center
in Bradley, IL (off Rte 45)
Talk-in KARS 146.94 repeater
Click here for directions, map and more info:
http://www.w9az.com/foxhunt_main.html

73'
Clay Melhorn  N9IO
Fox Hunt Coordinator
Kankakee Area Radio Society
http://www.w9az.com

BTW:
Help support one of the finest hamfests in the midwest, you'll be glad
you did!
See you at KARSFEST 2003
Sunday July 6th
at the Will County Fairgrounds in Peotone, Illinois
http://www.w9az.com/karsfest.html

Great things in store for KARSFEST 2003...
At KARS 20th Anniversary Hamfest, meet
Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, editor of the National Contest Journal (NCJ)
at the NCJ booth.
Carl will present a recognition award to
President of the Society of Midwest Contesters (SMC), Paul Gentry, K9PG

Meeting of the Society of Midwest Contesters (SMC)
in honor of SMC's (3 - Peat) Win of the
2000 / 2001 / 2002 ARRL November Sweepstakes Unlimited Club Gavel.
Join the SMC for free while you're here at KARSFEST, help defend the
ARRL November Sweepstakes Unlimited Club Title in Nov 2003.

Meet ARRL Central Div Director  George R. "Dick" Isely W9GIG,
Vice Director  Howard "Howie" Huntington K9KM,
IL Section Manager  Sharon "Shari" Harlan N9SH.

DXCC Card Checking
by ARRL card checkers Bill Smith, W9VA, and Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA

WAS Card Checking by ARRL card checker Vicky Luetzelschwab, AE9YL

down load the KARSFEST flyer in Adobe pdf form at
http://www.w9az.com/karsfest.pdf