Wood River Amateur Radio Club

This last week we licensed 21 new amateur radio operators. This brings to 61 new operators we have licensed this past year alone and we now have a total of 83 amateur radio operators in our group.
The demographics of our group is very interesting. For example we now have 17 women in the group. Quite different from most amateur groups. The majority of our group are in their twenties,thirties,and forties. The diversity is also interesting as we have members from the following;St Luke’s Wood River,Blaine County S/R,Sawtooth S/R,Id trans dept,Sun Valley Ski Patrol,Ketchum police,Sawtooth mountain guides,Ketchum fire,Sun Valley fire,Sun Valley trekking,Wood River fire,Sawtooth avalanche center,US Forest Service,911 dispatch, and a number of back country enthusiasts like myself who like having communication in the backcountry. Really we now have a base of amateur radio operators who can communicate in a disaster.
We have two communication events coming up in 2010. July will be the mountain bike race at Galena lodge called the Galena grinder. August will be the Sawtooth century 100 mile bike ride from Ketchum to Alturas lake and back. We will let you know the details later.
As you may know we have a complete VHF,UHF,and HF station operational at 911 dispatch in the new Public Safety Building in Hailey. We will also have shortly a VHF station at St Luke’s Hospital /Wood River. Add a proposed new VHF station at Elkhorn Fire station in Sun Valley and we have simplex coverage between north and south valley in a disaster situation.

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