Veteran's Day/General LeMay's Birthday Event

To recognize Veterans Day and General Curtis E. LeMay’s birthday this year, the Strategic Air Command Memorial Amateur Radio Club (SACMARC) Will be operating KØGRL on November 11th, 2002 from 1200 hours to 2400 hours Zulu (UTC).  The station will operate in the General phone bands on or near to the following frequencies  ending in 47 (for 1947 when the Air Force became a single entity)  3.947, 7.247, 14.247, 21.347, & 28.347, whichever band seems to be open best to most locations. Also look for us on 51.47MHZ.  We will also be on 146.46 simplex for local folks.  You should also listen to the 3905 Century Club WAS Net in the evening.

Originally assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sometime during the Cold War, KØGRL was the personal amateur radio callsign of General Curtis E. LeMay when he was the Strategic Air Command, Commander, ( CINCSAC ) and assigned to Offutt Air Force Base. (Offutt, near Omaha Nebraska, was the Headquarters base for the former Strategic Air Command or SAC, 1946-1992, now reorganized into a unified command called USSTRATCOM) and was used by him until the late 1950's. The General received K4FRA when he went to Washington, D.C., to be the USAF Vice Chief of Staff (later Chief of Staff), and retired in California with W6EZV. The original Nebraska callsign, KØGRL, had long since lapsed and was unassignable under FCC rules for several decades. Recent changes in FCC rules, including the adoption of a Vanity Callsign Program, offered the opportunity for SAC veterans, and other members of the local amateur radio community, to recover that callsign in memory of SAC and military communications history. With the gracious consent of the LeMay family, including the General's daughter, Mrs. Jane LeMay Lodge, KØGRL was taken down from history's attic, dusted off, and returned to active use in May of 1997.

To receive a KØGRL QSL card (after contact, of course), Please visit the SACMARC Home Page.Contact information and mailing address are listed there also. Please include an ‘SASE’ with your QSL card. KØGRL is also good in the current call book and on qrz.com.