KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog
Today is Memorial Day--a time to remember those who paid the ultimate price for our nation. Despite a full weekend of drag races and other holiday events that kept our radio station staff busy, I welcomed a return to the news room this morning. This time gave me a chance to grace my newscasts with some heartfelt thanks to veterans and their families for their service to this still great country. Like many vets, I don't care to share war stories...some memories are best forgotten. I was fortunate to return alive with most of my faculties intact. Others were not so lucky. The tie between my service and amateur radio goes back some 40 years or more when many of us stationed in remote, deservedly forgotten areas of the world kept in touch with our families through MARS stations. Those were the days before e-mail, skype, iPhones, or any other high tech communications marvels. I owe a debt of gratitude to those MARS operators who kept us sane in a world gone crazy. Perhaps the be