MD Post 275 celebrates the Legion's birthday
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MD Post 275 celebrates the Legion's birthday

On March 16, some of the members of the American Legion Post 275 Amateur Radio Team (call sign N3TAL) in Glenarden, Md., celebrated the 94th birthday of The American Legion by making radio contact with the Special Event Station (N9L) at National Headquarters in Indianapolis. After starting the day with a hardy breakfast at the post's biweekly breakfast buffet, the team set up a portable HF radio station in the post banquet hall. As the hall was being prepared for a dinner dance that night, the team members patiently waited for propagation to improve so they could make their "birthday contacts." Shortly after noon, N9L boomed in on the Yeasu 897D. Team members Kenneth L. Courtney (AA3NN), Benjamin Walker (AJ3A), Kenneth Greenhouse (KB3IIE), Matthew Blanding (K4FNX), Frank Jenkins (WA3ULX) and Edgar Hopson (N3TFS) checked in with the Headquarters Special Event Station and completed the day's mission.
Veterans Day 2012 event at Post 28 in Oak Orchard/Riverdale, Del.
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Veterans Day 2012 event at Post 28 in Oak Orchard/Riverdale, Del.

TALARC members Paula, KB3TCH, and Jerry Martin, KB3NZJ, operate from their Veterans Day station at Post 28 in Oak Orchard/Riverdale, Del. Operating with a simple 20-meter dipole behind the post with fiberglass push-up poles at 36 feet, they worked 25 stations, including Special Event Station K9TAL, Brazil and Puerto Rico, showing post members the fun side of the hobby as well as the emergency communications capabilities of amateur radio. (Photo by Joe Marino, KC2OCC, post historian)
Southern Maryland District Veterans Day 2012 special event operations
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Southern Maryland District Veterans Day 2012 special event operations

We set up at the Southern Maryland District Youth Camp in Cheltenham, Md. We will be working with the Boy Scout troops that use the camp while getting their Amateur Radio badges. Thanks again for all of your efforts in promoting amateur radio. Enjoyed our chat.

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