Lower Arkansas Hogs Hold Winter Field Day

The Lower Arkansas Hogs Amateur radio group held a winter field day recently in Prescott at the caboose at the Nevada County Depot and Museum.  The exercise is aimed at getting the group away from their home base and setting up radio communications from a remote site.  The group then tries to talk to as  many locations as possible.  The field day replicates what might happen should their be an emergency in the area and the only communication with the outside world would be through amateur radio.  The group does such events a couple of times per year.  Member Karmel Kuhn reports the group were able to not only talk to “hams” out of town but with amateur radio enthusiasts in other countries.