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W0S at the Scouting 500

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Ron Wood, K0BRO, reported on the recent Radio Scouting event at the Kansas City Speedway — The Scouting 500.

We operated on a Friday late afternoon/evening and all day on Saturday.  Using the WØS special event call that I arranged through ARRL, we filled about four ARRL paper logbook sheets (no N1MM for this event!).  The exciting part was that we had many young (Cub) Scouts on the microphone with their parents taking pictures.  Friday night was a good opening into Europe on 20 meters.  We used an old Cushcraft A-3 band yagi on a 25 foot mast that I put together for this event and it worked very nicely.  Saturday was mostly USA with many stations wanting to help with Scout QSOs.

Ron also provided us some great photos. Note that one of the rigs in use was a Loan Station from Icom America. He also took advantage of the 1×1 call signs that are available for special events. Check these out for your special events including Jamboree on the Air.

Thanks to Ron and his team for putting on this special Radio Scouting event. Thanks, too, to everyone who worked them!

Scouting 500 (2)

Scouting 500 (1)

Radio Scouting Embroidery

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Ham Threads has just announced their Radio Scouting line of embroidered caps, shirts and more. Here’s a sample.

Radio Scouting Cap and Shirt

Morse-it

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Icom America announced last night that they have introduced Morse-It Powered by Icom. It’s an iPhone and iPad app for learning the Morse Code. It’s available on iTunes during Hamvention at no charge. Check it out at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/morse-it/id284942940?mt=8

Dayton Hamvention

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This week is the Dayton Hamvention. If you’ll be attending look for the Radio Scouting booth within the ARRL Exhibit. We have a great team staffing the booth and helping our ham radio brethren better understand how they can support Radio Scouting and at the same time mentor the next generation of ham radio operators.

In addition, Jim Wilson, K5ND, will be staffing the Icom America booth discussing their work in supporting Radio Scouting and their continued sponsorship of the Boy Scouts of America’s amateur radio operations. Jim will also be providing a Radio Scouting presentation on Saturday, May 17, beginning at 4:15 PM Eastern. Icom will be streaming the video live at the Icom at Dayton 2014 webpage. After the Hamvention, we will post the presentation here along with any recording.

We hope you can get out to the Hamvention. Hope to see you there.

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