[ILHam] Special Event Station This Weekend...

[Clay Melhorn]

KARS Special Event Station This Weekend...

The Kankakee Area Radio Society Will operate under the club callsign W9AZ

1400Z Aug 14  -  2000Z Aug 15

We're Celebrating KARS 80th Anniversary

Freqs +-qrm  14.280  7.280
Yes, we will also be on CW and PSK
(Look for W9AZ posts on the DX Cluster)

QSL info:  James Schreiner, K9BIG
436 S Prairie Ave, Bradley, IL 60915

The station will be set up at
Koerner Aviation (airport), Rt 115 W, Kankakee

In honor and memorium of one of KARS founding members,
Dell Koerner, W9NKR.

Dell was an aviator.  His pilot's license was signed
by "the Orville Wright," of of the Wright brothers.
Dell was first licensed as a ham by the Navy in 1918,
at that time the FCC did not exist.

Click here for a photo of W9NKR's station at the air field back in the 
1940's
http://www.w9az.com/80th_anv.html

A little more KARS trivia, the origin of the KARS club callsign W9AZ.
9AZ and later W9AZ were originally held by a local doctor, J.R. 
Wilkinson of Kankakee.
In 1924 Dr Wilkinson was a member of the Kankakee Amateur Radio Club (a 
foreruner of the present club),
and became a silent key around 1945.
KARS adopted the callsign around 1961.
 From the spark wireless days, we have a 9AZ QSL card from 1925 for you 
on-line at
http://www.w9az.com/1925_his.html

A rich heritage from a dedicated club.
Please remember to attend KARS 22nd Annual Hamfest
KARSFEST 2005 next summer on JULY 17th
at the Will County Fairgrounds in Peotone, Illinois
http://www.w9az.com/karsfest.html
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73' from KARS, W9AZ
The Kankakee Area Radio Society
http://www.w9az.com