Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club to partner with the National Park Service for Earth Day special event The Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) will again partner with the National Park Service with a special event amateur radio station to be held at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in Paterson, NJ . The event will be held on Monday April 29th at the National Park Service location at Mary Ellen Kramer Park, entrance along Maple Street, Paterson, NJ from 9AM until 4PM. The event is part of a larger celebration sponsored by the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy and the National Park Service. The club's special event call sign (W2E) is to commemorate "Water To Electricity" and the vision behind Alexander Hamilton's transformation of the Passaic River to turn Paterson into the first planned industrial city in America by taming the power of water. For the fourth consecutive year, the club will be a partner in this event. Expected frequencies are 14.245 14.045 7.245 and 7.045. Hundreds of area students will converge on the Historical Park for educational activities and will gain exposure to the fun and benefits of amateur radio at the same time. Participants in addition to The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club will include The Paterson Museum, The Academy of Earth and Space Science (PANTHER Academy of Paterson), The Green Club from the STEM Academy at John F. Kennedy High School, The Great Swamp Watershed Association, the Bergen County Zoo, and New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit the club's website at www.fairlawnarc.org or call 201-791-3841 or the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park website at www.nps.gov/pagr or 973-523-0370. http://www.southgatearc.org/news/20...to-partner-with-the-national-park-service.htm
Wow!! Great club with a great history!! Always good to see Parks on the air .... of all the (blank)OTA stuff .... Parks are the best imo .... gets people interested in Field Day!!
Interesting history, indeed. From Wikipedia: "..at the height of its power the Soviet Union established a nationwide subbotnik to be celebrated on Lenin's birthday, April 22, which had been proclaimed a national holiday celebrating communism by Nikita Khrushchev in 1955." I believe I'll pass on this particular event.
Huh? I don't think that has anything to do with Earth Day- it just coincidentally falls on the same date. This has nothing to do with Lenin, communism, or the Soviet Union, and everything to do with the one planet we all live on.
http://flarc.net/NPOTA/PGFNHP_Operating-info_00.pdf Amazingly, Lenin isn't mentioned once!! How will communism ever survive?
There's a commie behind every holiday and event.......... commies under the bed...........commies behind the couch............. by the way, don't drink the tap water, you know fluoridation is a commie plot to pollute the purity of our essence.
Each year when earth day rolls around I just type "earth day girlfriend in trunk" in the search engine and refresh my memory on that story.
Really!?! And this got likes? 1) This has nothing in the world to do with the thread. 2) It is not 1967.
I got my start at FLARC in the late 60's. It was a flourishing group with great mentors and wonderful projects. There was always something for everyone there. Best wishes to all past and present members. Neil Drucker KO5EMS
I agree with you 100%. Sadly, there is a large faction of folks who believe anything having to do with "environmentalists" or the environment, or addressing climate change must must must be some left-wing conspiracy designed to brainwash our children into accepting socialism, communism or any number is "isms" and therefore they discount and ignore anything having to do with anything that doesn't fit their myopic,. often misinformed, opinion. 'Murica!!!!!