Maryland’s Kent County High School used its newly minted K3ARS amateur radio station to work 40 stations on the ARRL’s school club roundup day.
We reported in January on the ham station’s rollout as part of our feature on 90.5 WKHS(FM), the Class B1 FM station operated by the school.
On Feb. 10, Chris Singleton, the station manager at WKHS, said his students operated two HF stations. Forty contacts were made from Minn., Pa., Fla., Va., Ga., Ind., S.C., N.C., Ark., and Mich. Globally, he said there were two Canadian contacts made and one each from Spain and Italy.
Singleton said sophomore and first-year broadcasting student Susannah “Sukie” Tilghman, pictured below operating the station’s ICOM IC-756ProIII transceiver, has committed to pursuing her technician class license this academic semester.
Singleton (KE3MC) is a longtime member of the Kent County Amateur Radio Society and worked with the club to establish the station at the high school last year.
K3ARS also commandeered a 6-meter station during school club roundup day but in the midst of winter, that band was quiet.
Singleton said it is part of his overall mission to introduce the technical side of the medium to his broadcast track students at KCHS. He said the station is in the process of raising funds to purchase its own HF beam antenna system.
“We have six students committed to taking classes to get their technician license and we’ll begin those very soon,” Singleton said.
The station also participated in the winter field day training exercise on Jan. 25. The Kent County Amateur Radio Society awarded the students a canvas print for their participation, acknowledging the HF stations contacted from the KARS emergency communication trailer, EMCOMM1, which was deployed at the school. Local newspaper outlet the Kent County News also covered the activities that day.
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