Radio Club Transmitting, Do You Copy?

Through the overwhelming static, Margie Spangenberg tried to make out the voices on the other end. "Fox Trot Texas, again?" she asked. Static came back over the radio. They were from far away, that much she knows. Spangenberg was trying to talk through a satellite put into orbit by amateur radio operators in Saudi Arabia. There was only a narrow window of time when the fast-moving satellite would be in range for the antennas set up on a field outside the Civic Center of Anderson. Within minutes, the signal was lost entirely. No static. No hiss-hiss. It was just a few hours into the 24-hour radio-a-thon known as Radio Field Day, when more than 35,000 amateur radio fans switch on the power and connect to each other much as they did in the 1920s.

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