A bit of Off Topic -- The Challenger is on a winter tour. Supposed to be in
St. Louis this weekend. In Texas for the Super Bowl. If you are near, you
might wish to take a gander.

Phil

"Dale Wiese" wrote in message
gy.com...
I'm trying to contact railfans who are also radio amateurs.

Last year in June a group of fellow hams ran a special event station from
the Illinois Railway Museum using the call sigh W9T. This was a very
enjoyable event, and we intend to go back this year. We are looking for
other individuals, groups, or clubs who might like to join us by operating
on the same day from a rail related location. Our hope is to build this
over
a few years into an event similar to the route 66 event, where hams try to
contact as many of the "Railfans on the Air" sites as they can on the
special event day. A single certificate would be issued, with endorsements
for each station worked.

Possible sites could be a rail museum, depot, well known railfan location,
old tower, anything that is rail related that you feel might be an
interesting place to operate from.

So, is there any interest in this? The most likely date would be June 5th.
In addition to the IRM site, we have a contact near Branson/Hollister who
wants to participate. If we can get a couple more, I think we would have a
great start to what could become a large, well known yearly event.

73,

Dale Wiese, N9XD