2026 Chasing Cornwallis Challenge - K4C The Battle of Cowpens Special Event

We are pleased to announce our 11th year of Commemoration of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution with event number one of six annual events:

K4C The Battle of Cowpens filling the airwaves:
1/16 at 0Z - 7PM EST ==> 01/19 at 5Z - midnight- EST.

2025 smashed records in every category especially with our second year of K4A - AMERICA250 Launch Editions which, this being the commemorative year, we have some exciting plans beginning on July 01st through July 10th - stay tuned for details including not one, but two QSL Cards, Achievement Certificate and prizes for top Participants.

Below is our full 2026 schedule - mark your calendars!

Until such time, we return in 2026 with the Chasing Cornwallis Challenge kicking off with one of the most deterministic events of America's War for Independence - The Battle of Cowpens where you are cordially invited to visit our new website Grand Opening on 01/15
www.history.radio

The website will provide the expanded story of the Battle of Cowpens including the prelude and aftermath. Here is a tune-up:

"When the smoke cleared over Washington’s northern camps, the Continental Army looked like a beaten force: starving, sick, unpaid, and going nowhere while British flags flew over New York, Savannah, and Charleston. In the South, it was Cornwallis—not Washington—who drove events, smashing Gates at Camden and scattering Patriot morale, until backcountry riflemen shattered his flank at Kings Mountain and a limping, sciatica‑ridden Daniel Morgan stepped from semi‑retirement to bait Banastre Tarleton into a perfectly timed double‑envelopment at a place called the Cowpens. In less than an hour, Morgan’s mix of militia and Continentals destroyed Tarleton’s strike force, wrecked British plans for the Southern Campaign, and set Cornwallis on the desperate road that ended—not in triumph—but in surrender at Yorktown, reshaping not only America’s fate but the future of freedom movements around the world."​

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As with all of our events, QSL Cards and Certificates are offered free-of-charge. Our work is 100% funded through optional and appreciative Donations and Grants.

On behalf of Team K4C, we look forward to serving you"Beyond the Check-in"to hopefully inspire further inquiry into the brave:
Men and Women Who Won America
​

HUZZA!!!
Marc - W4OVT
Chasing Cornwallis Challenge
"Keeping the Stories Alive"​

 

Oh boy......Here we go agn.....HA, HA,HA......
Sam.......

 

Sammy my dear boy, as "The Fighting Quaker" Commander Nathanael Greene once said:

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Look forward to hearing you back on-the-air - 73​

 

As a middle school social studies teacher, I am looking forward to this one!

 

Every dentist in the USA owes the Continental Army and Militias their eternal gratitude.

 

Looking forward to another great year. I will be supporting the west coast from Las Vegas, NV. Look for me on FT8 and SSB. Don't forget to check the K4C QRZ page and DX Summit to find where we are.
Good hunting

 

We are pleased to announce our 11th year of Commemoration of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution with event number one of six annual events:

K4C The Battle of Cowpens filling the airwaves:
1/16 at 0Z - 7PM EST ==> 01/19 at 5Z - midnight- EST.

2025 smashed records in every category especially with our second year of K4A - AMERICA250 Launch Editions which, this being the commemorative year, we have some exciting plans beginning on July 01st through July 10th - stay tuned for details including not one, but two QSL Cards, Achievement Certificate and prizes for top Participants.

Below is our full 2026 schedule - mark your calendars!

Until such time, we return in 2026 with the Chasing Cornwallis Challenge kicking off with one of the most deterministic events of America's War for Independence - The Battle of Cowpens where you are cordially invited to visit our new website Grand Opening on 01/15
www.history.radio

The website will provide the expanded story of the Battle of Cowpens including the prelude and aftermath. Here is a tune-up:

"When the smoke cleared over Washington’s northern camps, the Continental Army looked like a beaten force: starving, sick, unpaid, and going nowhere while British flags flew over New York, Savannah, and Charleston. In the South, it was Cornwallis—not Washington—who drove events, smashing Gates at Camden and scattering Patriot morale, until backcountry riflemen shattered his flank at Kings Mountain and a limping, sciatica‑ridden Daniel Morgan stepped from semi‑retirement to bait Banastre Tarleton into a perfectly timed double‑envelopment at a place called the Cowpens. In less than an hour, Morgan’s mix of militia and Continentals destroyed Tarleton’s strike force, wrecked British plans for the Southern Campaign, and set Cornwallis on the desperate road that ended—not in triumph—but in surrender at Yorktown, reshaping not only America’s fate but the future of freedom movements around the world."
As with all of our events, QSL Cards and Certificates are offered free-of-charge. Our work is 100% funded through optional and appreciative Donations and Grants.

On behalf of Team K4C, we look forward to serving you"Beyond the Check-in"to hopefully inspire further inquiry into the brave:
Men and Women Who Won America
​

HUZZA!!!
Marc - W4OVT
Chasing Cornwallis Challenge
"Keeping the Stories Alive"​

[/QUOTE]I will be active day and night on 40 meter CW with Kenwood TS990S and inverted vee .

 

I will be active day and night on 40 meter CW with Kenwood TS990S and inverted vee.

 

Hello from Mike KE6EIC excited to serve as a K4C Volunteer. I plan to operate SSB and RTTY on 10m,15m and 20m daily and 40m in the evening. My rig is a Yaesu 450D and antenna is a G5RV and a vertical Performer with tuned radicals. . I look forward to getting you into the K4C Log!"
Mike Martin
KE6EIC

 

"Hello from Al K6ISS in CA excited to serve as a K4C Volunteer. I plan to operate FT8 and SSB on 40-10m Throught the entire duration of the event. My rig is a Yaesu FT-710 AESS, Kenwood TD-570D, AL-80A amp and antenna is a DxC Sig 9 or Chameleon DTL. I look forward to getting you into the K4C Log!"

 

Hello from AD9HV, Andrew, AKA "Ted" on the airwaves.
Looking forward to being an NCS and operating during the event.
I will operate the event on 10, 20, and 40 meter SSB using my FT-450 and my EFHW antenna.

HUZZA and have fun everyone!

 

Hello everyone from KV0MR, Mike in Aurora Colorado. I'm looking forward to working as an NCS volunteer during the event (my first time ever!). I will be operating on 10-40 meters SSB using my FTDX10 and my EFHW. Looking forward to getting you in the K4C logbook! It's very exciting to be part of this great challenge during our country's 250th birthday!

 

I have a special love of history, thanks to growing up in the military and then doing a tour of duty myself. I look forward to this year's events.

 

Marc, you may recall last year you had to send me a replacement K4M card (and the first one never did arrive), looking forward to this, hoping I can work all six, I just saved the graphic with the schedule to my shack computer desktop! I'll be working ft8 on 40 thru 10, but probably with a bit more power this year, as it was with my IC-705 last year but I just got the IC-7300 Mk2 and hope to have that running ft8 - I guess I need to get busy! You might recall in our email exchanges that my 4th-great-grandfather, William Wartenbe, fought in the Revolution and War of 1812. I just found this recently:




His son, Francis David is my 3rd-great-grandfather.


73,
John

 

Hello from Viki N8VLC! It's my pleasure to join the list of volunteers and look forward to many QSOs as we celebrate our nation's birthday. I will be operating SSB on various bands from my Yaesu FT-991A and multi-band dipole antenna. I hope that many will be "repeat offenders" in my log! Good luck everyone!