How to Make Working Special Event Stations Even More Special
Each year, there are hundreds of great special event stations that get on the air, just waiting for you to contact them. Along with receiving great QSL cards, many events offer special certificates for your shack. Special events can be about history, geography, sports, or just radio fun. Some commemorate tragic events like K5C (Photo A), sponsored by the Nacogdoches Amateur Radio Club remembering the astronauts who lost their lives February 1, 2003 and hundreds of amateur radio operators who assisted in the aftermath of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia.
A similar special event station is K8F, honoring the 29 lives lost on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald on November 10, 1975; the wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell and the loss of 28 lives on November 18, 1966, and
