Radio Daze, June 23
Yolo District Radio Daze
Saturday & Sunday, June 28-29, 2008
Radio Daze is an over-night camping event featuring radio communications for Boy Scouts. Scouts will earn the Radio Merit Badge, build a radio, learn signaling methods, communicate by ham radio and link with earth satellite transponders. We’ll have events on Morse Code, semaphore signaling and emergency communications, a campfire and firefly hunt.
Radio Daze is held in conjunction with the annual ham radio Field Day by the Yolo Amateur Radio Society. Field Day is a national exercise on communications under emergency conditions. Thousand of stations will participate around the United States and Canada and we will be communicating with many of them.
In addition there will be events specifically for the Scouts on the Radio Merit Badge and many aspects of signaling technology. As Field Day runs twenty-four continuous hours, this will be the one event at which Scouts don’t have to go to bed. The ham stations will be operating around the clock for twenty-four hours. One station will be devoted to operation by Scouts.
This year’s event will be held at Nelson’s Grove, north of Woodland as an overnight Saturday/Sunday event. Radio Daze runs from 9 AM on Saturday through 11 AM Sunday. The full program will be completed on Saturday so it may be also used as a one day event.
Click here for the Event Flyer and Registration
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