Massey Air Museum is Venue for Amateur Radio Field Day:

MASSEY -- Members of the Kent Amateur Radio Society will participate in the national Amateur Radio Field Day this weekend at the Massey Air Museum. The event is free and open to the public. Setup will begin early in the morning Saturday, June 24. The official on-air operation time is the 24-hour period between 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 25; this is the recommended time for visitors to see amateur radio in action. During the national observance of Field Day, using only emergency power supplies, amateur radio operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the country. There are more than 725,000 licensed amateur radio operators in the United States, as young as 5 and as old as 100, according to a news release from the Kent organization. For more than 100 years, amateur radio operators -- often called hams -- have provided a free public service to their communities during a disaster without needing a cell phone or the internet. Field Day demonstrates ham radio's ability to work reliably under any conditions from almost any location and create an independent communications network.

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