John Z, N1JPZ, his son Rick, and Bob, WB4SON, put up a temporary 30 foot mast and raised the 20-meter dipole up in the air at Monsignor Clarke School today.  (Actually John and Rick did most of the work, WB4SON just stood around looking useless and taking photos).

We have applied for a club call sign of K1MCS, and it looks like it will be issued on October 20th.  Our first day of contest operation will be on October 21st.  Twenty one students will be participating on the air.  Our plan is to rotate them on the air in groups of four every 45 minutes on Wed/Thu/Fri.

Hopefully after this introduction to Amateur Radio, the same kids will agree to do it again in February, after which we will start having 90 minutes of instruction each week until June — with a goal of getting them all licensed.

This is the fourth school that NCRC has worked with for educational outreach.

20-Meter Dipole installed at Monsignor Clarke School in Wakefield RI. Look for them on-air Oct 21-23 from about 9:45 AM until 2:30 PM