Amateur Radio Association Annual Field Days This Weekend

Once again it's time for the Schoharie County Amateur Radio Association to “take it on the road.” Field Days, an exercise that combines fun, practice for actual emergency situations and field station setup and operation, along with a chance for folks to come out to see how it all works, will be held this weekend, as it is each year during the last weekend of June.

The public is invited to come by the Cobleskill Elk's Club where this year's Field Days will be held. Starting at noon Saturday and running through noon Sunday, radio contacts will be made coast to coast by SCARA members, utilizing several modes of communication, including voice, digital, and Morse Code. Temporary antennas are used, and a variety of equipment will be used to establish the contacts that are part of the fun, making new friends across the country.

There will be computers, shortwave transceivers, Morse Code keys, microphones, and hand-held radios being employed by licensed Amateur Radio operators who will be happy to show you what they're doing and how it all works. For a fascinating opportunity to see something different, you are invited to come by.