Dresden Elementary Amateur Radio Station, KD8NOM

摘要

Though the Dresden Elementary Amateur Radio Station (DEARS), KD8NOM, will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary, it's taken a lot longer than 10 years to get to where we are today. My first attempt in the late 1980s was fairly successful, with plenty of HF and VHF contacts, but the principal didn't see it going anywhere and didn't offer enough support to keep it going. An attempt a year or so later drew some exciting HF contacts, and a local TV station even did a story on our radio event. Still, administration didn't see the worth.