[XWARN] EAA AirVenture Special Event Station

[Jason Bowman]

Fellow XWARN'ers:

At the July monthly meeting last night, I mentioned I would be traveling to
EAA Airventure a.k.a. "Oshkosh", the largest fly-in / airshow this side of
the Paris Airshow.  The local club, the Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, will
have a special event station up and running at AirVenture from Jul 22-28
using their club call, W9ZL.  They will have 2 HF stations, one on 20m and
the other on 40m, 6-meter SSB, plus local communications on 2-meters.  I
neglected to get this into the July newsletter, and the next newsletter
will be too late.

http://bit.ly/2xGhE3e

I was perusing their main page and also noticed they will be building AM
radio receiver kits at an electronics booth at KidVenture that will be able
to tune into the airport tower frequency. Yes, the air band is AM.

http://bit.ly/2LMlr7o

I will try to swing by both locations to get a story or two and some
pictures for an upcoming newsletter.

Finally, I caught myself getting into newsletter territory while composing
this email.  So I've deliberately held back some information until I can
get an article going.  But I'm going to give you a teaser.  I'm going to
relate some of the things I've seen up at Oshkosh to the recent tornadoes
here in Dayton, in fact something that Jim Simpson mentioned at the June
meeting and also relates to the number of people -- actually the number of
cell phones -- in a small area, as well as something that the FCC typically
does at the request of ARRL when hurricanes hit hard, which I've written
about in a past newsletter.  That second connection is a bit tenuous, but
it will be an interesting space filler for the newsletter and will give you
a bit of insight into how federal regulatory agencies work.

Jason Bowman
m: 937-260-2870
WG8B
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