Pop-Up Net Celebrates National Pi Day

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Join the ROC-HAM team during a pop-up net celebrating NATIONAL PI DAY on 3.14.24 on Echolink ROC-HAM conference 531091 and on Allstar 2585, 47620, 47918, 531310 14th March 2024 at 500PM EDT / 2100 UTC... where discussion will focus around fascinating PI facts and how they effect us today.

A Special Event callsign will be allocated.

Stop by and enjoy some great fellowship and learn interesting facts about pi.

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YOTA Month 2023 has begun

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YOTA Month 2023 has begun

Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) month has now begun. Call sign GB23YOTA is active for the duration of the month, with a range of groups, clubs and individuals having reserved operating slots.

Cray Valley Radio Society is active with the call sign between 12pm and 6pm on Sunday 3 December.

On Monday 4 December, Wick High School is the first of several schools this week to be operating GB23YOTA. It will be on the air between 8am and 5pm.

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Park Activation Marks Anniversary of Deadly Bombing

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Amateur radio teaches important lessons in history as much as in science and technology and the special POTA activation happening in the US in another week marks a painful part of America’s Civil Rights history 60 years ago. In Birmingham, Alabama, the callsign KØMIK will be on the air on 15-16th September 2023 from the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument in Kelly Ingram Park, which has the POTA designation K-3602. The park is across the street from the 16th Street Baptist Church where on 15th September 1963, while Sunday school children inside were listening to a lesson in "A Love that Forgives," the church was bombed.

Four young women died that day. Their pictures are on the monument that stands facing the church. KØMIK is the callsign of the OMIK (PRON: O-MIKE) Amateur Radio Association, an international organisation that is the largest predominantly Black amateur radio association in the US. The activation will be primarily on 40, 20, 17 and 15m using CW, SSB and satellite. Tom Gaines KB5FHK told Newsline that anyone living in or visiting the Birmingham area that weekend is welcome to stop by the activation which is also part of OMIK's ongoing POTA challenge.