{"id":601,"date":"2019-06-12T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/?p=601"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:45:48","slug":"k7bnr-hosts-local-field-day-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/k7bnr-hosts-local-field-day-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"K7BNR Hosts Local “Field Day 2019”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amateur Radio \u201cField Day\u201d Demonstrates Science, Skill, and Service <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Members of the Bonner County ARES\/RACES team will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/strong>: June 22 & 23, 2019 (runs 24 hours, starting 11:00 a.m. Saturday)
Location:<\/strong> 465838 US-95, Sagle, ID (at Dufort Rd on the NW corner; enter from Hwy 95).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than 100 years, Amateur Radio \u2014 sometimes called ham radio \u2014 has allowed people from all walks of life to experiment with electronics and communications techniques, as well as provide a free public service to their communities during a disaster, all without needing a cell phone or the Internet. Field Day demonstrates ham radio\u2019s ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and create an independent communications network. Over 35,000 people from thousands of locations participated in Field Day in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy for anyone to pick up a computer or smartphone, connect to the Internet and communicate, with no knowledge of how the devices function or connect to each other,\u201d said Sean Kutzko of the American Radio Relay League, the national association for Amateur Radio. \u201cBut if there\u2019s an interruption of service or you\u2019re out of range of a cell tower, you have no way to communicate. Ham radio functions completely independent of the Internet or cell phone infrastructure, can interface with tablets or smartphones, and can be set up almost anywhere in minutes. That\u2019s the beauty of Amateur Radio during a communications outage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHams can literally throw a wire in a tree for an antenna, connect it to a battery-powered transmitter and communicate halfway around the world,\u201d Kutzko added. \u201cHams do this by using a layer of Earth\u2019s atmosphere as a sort of mirror for radio waves. In today\u2019s electronic do-it-yourself (DIY) environment, ham radio remains one of the best ways for people to learn about electronics, physics, meteorology, and numerous other scientific disciplines, and is a huge asset to any community during disasters if the standard communication infrastructure goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone may become a licensed Amateur Radio operator. There are over 725,000 licensed hams in the United States, as young as 5 and as old as 100. It\u2019s easy for anybody to get involved right here in Bonner County. For more information about Field Day, contact Lori Holten [email<\/a>] or visit http:\/\/arrl.org\/what-is-ham-radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ARES\u00ae and Amateur Radio Emergency Service\u00ae are trademarks of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL<\/a>). Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) was created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA<\/a>) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amateur Radio \u201cField Day\u201d Demonstrates Science, Skill, and Service Members of the Bonner County ARES\/RACES team will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonnerares.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}