San Antonio Hams

Every year, hams go to their local National Weather Station to operate for 24 hours, contacting other National Weather Stations and ham radio operators.    Locally, our NWS station for Austin / San Antonio is located in New Braunfels, next to the New Braunfels Airport, just east of that town.

Louis Upton K5STX, Member of Hill Country REACT and Chaparral Amateur Radio Club, was the coordinator.  He established a 24 hour schedule from 6pm CDT Friday, December 3rd, thru 6pm Saturday, December 4th.  The following hams participated in this year’s event.

We made contact with 56 National Weather Stations and about 270 total contacts, using HF, VHF, UHF, EchoLink, PSK31 and IRLP modes.

The following hams worked many long hours to make this event a success.

• JC Smith – N5RXS
• Wade Boling – W5ERX
• Jeremy Davenport – KE5ELI
• Richard Graham – N5RAG
• Bob Hejl – W2IK
• Joe Bruno – KE5YWO
• Wade Martyn – WB5C
• Louis Upton – K5STX
• Lee Besing – N5NTG

Visitors Friday:

• Chuck – WB5FWI
• Danny – WA5KRP

Photos from the event…