Museum Ships schedule set #ARRL #hamradio

As for the USS Oklahoma & USS Batfish Amateur Radio Club  will be operating special event stations starting at 0000 UCT June 6 from the Muskogee War Memorial & Park, Muskogee, OK.  These stations are in connection with Museum Ships Weekend, a special event sponsored by the USS New Jersey Amateur Radio Station, held the first full weekend of each June.  

Operations on 80, 40, & 20 meter HF voice & CW, satellite, and PSK32 are planned as well as attempts 160M as well as 15 & 10M.  

The club will be operating from the radio room and galley on board the USS Batfish, a World War II submarine.  The call sign for those stations will be WW2SUB.  In honor of the battleship USS Oklahoma, we will also operate stations from the Museum, itself, under the call WW2OK.  We are able to do this because there is a piece of a fire control mast from the USS Oklahoma, that was recovered from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

We welcome all contacts, and any visitors during this event.  If you come to the park to visit, look for the antenna(s) at the south end of the property.  Operations will probably shut down somewhere around 1600-1800 UCT on June 8.  All contacts will be acknowledged with a QSL card upon receipt of a request, including a SASE. 

Thanks to Mitch Hull, KE5HWW
Secretary, USS Oklahoma & USS Batfish Amateur Radio Club

Governor declares Amateur Radio Week #ARRL #hamradio

Oklahoma City --- Amateur Radio Week in Oklahoma is June 23-28, according to Mary Fallin, Governor who proclaimed the week this week.

"Oklahoma is one of the first State's to announce the Governor's proclamation," said Kevin O'dell, N0IRW, the Section Manager of the Oklahoma Section of the American Radio Relay League.

The document can be viewed on the Section blog at http://arrlok.blogspot.com.

The ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio, represents ham radio operators both in Oklahoma and around the nation.

Are you gearing up for Field Day?

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Living off the Grid #ARRL #hamradio

"If the United States doesn't do something to protect the grid, and soon, a terrorist or an act of nature will put an end to life as we know it."  Roscoe Bartlett R-MD

The article mentions electromagnetic pulse related to nuclear explosion.  However, EMP also comes naturally with increased solar activity, ex. solar flare.  The impacts can be devastating.

Short of living as the Amish, what preparations are you making to overcome this naturally occurring event?

Can you talk on your radio with the power off?