The Iola Amateur Radio Club will have a field day beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday and running through 1 p.m. Sunday at G & W Foods, 1010 S. First St.
Field Day is an annual exercise sponsored by portable radio operator regions that encourages emergency communications preparedness. More than 30,000 operators participate each year.
A portable radio station will be set up at the grocery store with deployable portable antennas and generators to provide electricity to amateur transceivers. The local club wll demonstrate single sideband voice Morse code and digital codes.
Amateurs are expected from Garnett, Humboldt, Iola, LaHarpe, Lone Elm and Moran. All are welcome.
