Special Events Station April 14,2022 Loretta Lynn birthday |
On April 14,2022 the Amateur Radio Community Service Club of Paintsville Kentucky conducted their first ever special event station commemorating the 90th birthday of Country Music Star Loretta Lynn from her birthplace and childhood home in Butcher Hollow in Van Lear Kentucky. To us mountain folk the word Hollow is pronounced holler. Old folklore says the word holler came about as a result of mountain folk hollering from one end of the hollow to the other end as a means of communication. As a club we didn't have to holler to establish communications, we as hams used our equipment and homebrewed antennas to contact stations in 10 different states and also a station in Spain. All stations were powered by a generator furnished by Bill KN4EME and I might add the generator was not fueled by "white lightning" or moonshine as it is portrayed in the movies as a power source for mountain people.
radios operating four different stations stations on four different bands for 24 hours. We operated on the 75, 20, 40 and 2 meter phone portion of the bands using the special event call sign of K4L which stands for Kentuckians for Loretta
front which began around 04:00 hrs utc. By day break we were at the radios again. Also we were served a great meal of hamburgers, hotdogs, and Paul AK4U's special recipe for fried potatoes along with plenty of soft drinks. cakes and cookies Paul's girlfriend Donna was a non ham and she was a super hostess preparing the meal and as a result of being with us she is now interested in studying for a amateur license.
we were doing. We took time to explain ham radio to the visitors and it sparked the interest in most of visitors who stopped by
for the use of the homeplace and all stations who contacted us during this event. If you contacted us during this special event send a SASE to :
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