Special Event Station for the Warbirds of America at the 2024 EAA Airventure. Please QSL as we will have a commemorative QSL card for those who QSL via K9ECF. The Warbirds of America's Board of Directors will be sponsoring a special event station during EAA AirVenture 2024. All Warbirds members with current amateur licenses are invited to operate W9W during daylight hours. Non-licensed members may participate under the supervision of a licensed amateur operator. The station will be located on the Warbirds’ grounds near Warbirds’ HQ. Icom America will support the event with HF, VHF, and UHF radio equipment. Operations will take place on 40 through 10 meters (Phone and CW). Operations are expected to take place on or near 7225 MHz, 14250 MHz, 21235 MHz, and 28425 MHz. The station will also operate on 2 meters and 440 simplex as well as via D-STAR through the D-STAR repeater in Oshkosh. A commemorative QSL card will be sent to those who submit QSL for contacts with W9W. To learn more about this passionate family of owners, pilots, and warbird enthusiasts, please visit their warbirds.eaa.org. Attached is the cover of the 2023 EAA Airventure QSL Card.
I flew in to Oshkosh Fly-in back in the early 90s. Busiest airport I have ever flown in to. And I've been to some of the biggest and busiest airports in the States.
Not there this year, flew in there air show several times. My friend Mike WA7ARK and his wife are there for the whole show.
Any idea what the CW Frequencies would be? The frequencies listed are all in the SSB portion of the 40/20/10m band.
I managed to work W9W on 14.248 SSB on 2024-07-26 at UTC 17:35 from Beaufort, SC! Tons of noise so the connection was brief, but complete! W9JHM
We were out there this year. Outstanding show, last time I was at EAA was 1986. I do feel they have gotten a bit away from the roots that Paul Poberzney imagined which was a focus on experimental aviation. It is now more of just a massive airshow with hardly any airframe under 100k. We did stumble upon the HAM Station on the north side of the warbirds next to the encampment for aviation ground support personnel. We also got message back to CO about the contest and CO did connect with the station. Yaesu and ICOM both had booths there but were only pushing aviation band radios, missed opportunity to talk with us HAM nerds out there who are also aviation nerds.
It will likely take a while for the NTSB findings to come out, but it was a Glasair airplane and the details from the show were that it was approximately 2 miles south of KOSH and was at 56kts airspeed before it crashed and caught fire. The airport is extremely busy so our guess is the pilot was relatively new to flying into Oshkosh and was monitoring his radios with ATC and watching for nearby aircraft but didn't watch his airspeed or flaps and basically stalled the aircraft just short of the runway. Large fire, so he was not out of gas. Just our opinion though.
