[ILHam] Special Event Station

[Clay Melhorn]

KARS Special Event Station...

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
(Also, look for W9AZ posts on the DX Cluster)

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

Celebrating KARS 80th Year

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 exsist.

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

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This e-mail will be posted once again just prior to the event.