Welcome to KL7KC - Fairbanks Alaska

The 2010 ARRL Field Day. Club members participated in two separate and distinct Field Day events this year. The first occurred locally at the KL2R contest club station. The second, occurred at Byers Lake, located approximately 250 miles south of Fairbanks.

Field Day power was provided by both Honda generators charging battery banks and KL1JP's solar station.

Chad (AL2D) operating a Yaesu Mark V, one of several HF radios available for the event.

Kevin (NL7WO) operating a Yaesu FT100 and attempting to dig out digital PSK31 signals.

Home brewed 6 meter moxon antenna. If you are curious - Yes...it worked very well.

Phil (KL8DX) operating a Yaesu FT-950 in cw mode. Phil drove up from Denali to operate during the event.

Meal Time - Hosts Larry (N1TX) and Connie (KL1BE) provided everything and anything the operators needed to keep operations going during the event.

Additional pictures and video about the Field Day operations at the KL2R Contest Club can be seen at: http://kl2r.blogspot.com/

Tour de Cure Diabetes Special Event - June 5, 2010

Members Neal and Dwight from AARC provided Net Control at Pikes Landing - Waterfront Lodge and Restaurant Facility.

Checkpoint at Old Steese and Goldstream - riders and Lions Club member Denny share stories while taking a break along the route.

Checkpoint at Pedro Dome Monument. AARC member Dean and riders share refreshments.

What it's all about - constant rider inventory at each Tour de Cure checkpoint and constant watchfulness at Net Control insures their safety.

"We Can - We Will - We Do". The AARC club's webpage says it all. A group of spirited and motivated individuals bringing a tremendous amount of energy, innovative ideas and raw determination to successfully accomplish what seems to be the impossible - all for the benefit of the entire community. (Anonymous comment overheard at the Yukon Quest headquarters - 2010)

The AARC Volunteers Staff the Yukon Quest Communication Hubs - Feb 06 - Feb 22, 2010

AARC members joined the Yukon Quest staff and volunteers at all of the checkpoints. Thanks to: NL7WO, WL7TV, NL7XH, K0HML, WL7AVG, WL7NZ, KL2EX, KL2GS, KL7EBF, KL7EDK, KL2GW, WL7CQS, WL7GK, KL2NJ, N1TX, KL7JM, KE4ITP, KL1YQ, KL7EUY, KL1AZ, WL7CPS, AL7QY, AL7QK, KL2WR, KL2WS, KE4TUU, KL7GL, AD4BL, KL2MR, KL1SG, WL7HU, KLINU, KL1JP, KL0WX, KL2HU, KL2WO, AD2D, KL2LJ, WG4LTP, AL7IK

Yukon Quest 2010 begins: Benny (NL7XH), Dan (KL1JP) and Linda (AD4BL) begin operations Saturday morning at the Quest HQ in downtown Fairbanks.

Known at the Central checkpoint as "The Mac Shack", Mac Carter (KL2GS) built a fully integrated ham shack on wheels which sports a full VHF compliment of radio, packet and winlink as well as full HF capability.

Central checkpoint showing incoming dog teams, quest volunteers and staff.

Inside "The Mac Shack" showing laptop computers, ham radio station, wifi directional antenna and and a lot of miscellaneous musher tracking gear.

Radio operator Charles, (KL2GW) monitoring musher traffic into and out of the Central checkpoint.

The old school house located in Eagle serves as the official Quest musher checkpoint.

Radio operator Myles (KL1NU) at the Eagle checkpoint. Myles used VHF, HF winlink and HF SSB to get data from Eagle to the Quest HQ in Fairbanks.

Inside the Eagle checkpoint.

Radio operator Marty, (KL2MR) burning the midnight oil at the Twin Bears Checkpoint. The Twin Bears checkpoint used winlink to send data to the Quest HQ in Fairbanks.

Twin Bears ham communications shack located at the Twin Bears Campground.

Twin Bears musher checkpoint.