Comments on: Amateur Radio Field Day Is This Weekend, Demonstrations At Ashton Brosnaham And Bratt Parks

By: Rich Boyd

Rich Boyd — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:33:56 +0000

Addition, I see someone mentioned Auburn. We had two visitors with Auburn T-shirts on, at our Get on the Air table, and we chatted about that and a guy I played HS football with long ago who became a star QB at AUburn — long, long ago. And our group, W3AO, is a mostly Potomac Valley Radio Club group, with well-known guys like W3LPL and K3RA (regular 20M op at W3LPL) we’re in the DC area — north of DC, Maryland, active for 26+ years, lots of NSA and retired NSA and other government and govt. contractor types. Quite a group.

By: Rich Boyd

Rich Boyd — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:31:36 +0000

Hi from W3AO and KE3Q! Well done, One of my non-ham friends living in your area sent me the article on y’all. Well done!
A suggestion — in a good spirit — suggestions — better chairs! haha. I know it’s FD and a folding chair is OK, but a lot of our guys bring their nice “secretarial chair” or something comfy from home! Keep up the good work!
Hey, “We’re all in this together.” 73

By: David Turner

David Turner — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:02:52 +0000

Travis Nelson Park, WOW!!
Great Place to visit and was a great place to hold our event!!
A BIG THANK YOU to Escambia County Florida for letting us use that Wonderful Park!
Thank You to ALL that came out and visited and participated.
I would like to give a Special Thank You to Frank that came out visited. What a Wonderful and Happy look on your face when You heard the Dits and Dahs, That Look, will forever be imprinted into my memories. Thank You for Your Service and Commitment to Our Country in order for events like this to take place.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:31:39 +0000

I had the privilege of visiting the Southern Amateur Radio Union gathering at Travis Nelson Park. What a wonderful group of individuals!!! As a very old 20 plus year Navy vet that worked in communications I visited thinking of hearing the old familiar dits and dahs..
Not so. Code is rarely used in todays world. However after listening to my experiences one member set a radio to a frequency so I could listen to morse code. Wow!!! It was a joy to hear the code however the kindness and friendliness EACH & EVERY individual displayed to me has left me speechless. I don’t know how to thank them as I appreciate it so much. What wonderful time spent with WONDERFUL people!!!

By: Travis Peterson

Travis Peterson — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 00:30:30 +0000

My dad is a ham up in Auburn. These guys do some cool stuff and perform a very important public service

They communicate by bouncing radio signals off the moon, talk to spaceships, bounce radio signals off meteor showers, help coordinate helicopters from NOLA to other hospitals after Hurricane Katrina, basically they’re the ones who can get communications up and running when the apocalypse comes.

If you catch Dale up in Auburn – WA4CQG tell him hello.

By: Scobie Wilcoxon

Scobie Wilcoxon — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 10:00:54 +0000

Thanks for including the Southern Amateur Radio Union in the article, William.

Thanks to the folks at Escambia Co (FL) for letting us use Travis Nelson Park.

We have a lot of fun and fellowship. Swing by and visit, you never know who might be there.