“Radio Operators Showcase Their Skills at American Radio Relay”
By MICHAEL OWENS
Reporter / Bristol Herald Courier
Published: June 28, 2009
SNIPPET: “SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. – It resembled a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie: Computers and ham radios powered by a mobile generator cluttering a picnic stand of tables ringed by trees and overlooking South Holston Lake. A grove of tents stood nearby.
Men and women wearing headphones hunched over their radios Saturday hoping to reach a voice, any voice, in the next state, in Canada, or on the other side of the world.
“This is Whiskey-Four-Ugly-Duck, over,” Bill Price, of Blountville, called into the mike.
Static crackled. Then a deep, mechanical voice answered from Ontario.
“Whiskey-Four-Ugly-Duck, thank you for calling. Over,” the mystery voice said.
Another success registered by the Bristol Amateur Radio Club in just two hours. That was one more contact made and another 22 hours of transmissions to go.”
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UCF club participates in ham radio Field Day”
Billie Hartl
Published: Sunday, June 28, 2009
Updated: Sunday, June 28, 2009
SNIPPET: ““With this setup we can easily talk around the world,” Wall said. “We can run two to four stations simultaneously. We do a satellite contact — we transmit to a satellite in orbit and talk to someone somewhere else on the planet. It’s one of our favorite things to do because it’s such a difficult thing to accomplish.””
SNIPPET: ““We run these radios at 100 watts max, a little more than two incandescent bulbs,” Wall said. “With that we can talk globally. When you think of that in terms of power consumption, it’s nothing.”
The club works with different types of radio, including Morse code, AM radio and FM radio in addition to digital.”
SNIPPET: “The club finished fourth in the state in its category last year. The club is classified as 2A since it has two main stations and outdoor emergency power exclusively.
“It’s pretty cool because it’s the largest radio communications network in the world, and it’s privately owned by citizens,” Wall said.”