Special Event Station Celebrating KARS 80th Year

KARS Special Event Station...

The Kankakee Area Radio Society

Will operate under the club callsign

W9AZ

1400Z Aug 14 - 2000Z Aug 15 2004

We're Celebrating KARS 80th Anniversary

Freqs +-qrm 14.280 7.280

We'll also be on CW and PSK

(Look for W9AZ posts on the DX Cluster)

QSL info: James Schreiner, K9BIG
Our thanks to Jim K9BIG and Jamie W9CD for organizing the event

The station will be set up at

Koerner Aviation (airport),

Rt 115 W, Kankakee

in honor and memorium of

one of KARS founding members,

Del Koerner, W9NKR.

Dell Koerner W9NKR ham station at
Koerner Air Field in the 1940's

Del Koerner, W9NKR
Founding member of KARS

Del was an aviator. His pilot's license was signed

by "the Orville Wright," of of the Wright brothers.

Del was first licensed as a ham by the Navy in 1918,

at that time the FCC did not yet exist.

More KARS trivia,

"The origin of the KARS club callsign W9AZ"

9AZ and later W9AZ were originally held by
a local doctor, J.R. Wilkinson of Kankakee.
In 1924 Dr Wilkinson was a member of the
Kankakee Amateur Radio Club
(a forerunner of the present club),
and became a silent key around 1945.
KARS adopted the callsign around 1961.

From the spark days this is the 9AZ QSL card from 1925.
The complete story of the 9AZ card is on the following page.
http://www.w9az.com/1925_his.html

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