ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL K6H OPERATION FROM HOLLYWOOD According to John Amodeo, NN6JA, the second K6H Hollywood Celebrates Ham Radio on the air operation went very well. The event took place on Sunday, September 28th from the historic Stage 9 at the CBS Studio Center which is currently the home of the hit ABC situation comedy Last Man Standing. Amodeo is the spokesman for the event. He says that there were six operating positions that were on the air from the start to finish. He reports that 10 meters was good all day, 20 started heating up in the late morning they had some 40 meter contacts in the afternoon. Meantime Internet connected stations in Connecticut, New York City, Washington and Florida tied to Stage 9 reported having contacts all day long as did those using D-STAR Reflector 12A. Perhaps the biggest surprise came in the announcement that the shows star, Tim Allen, whose character includes playing a ham radio operator now is one in real life. In one interview session with a Volunteer Examiner team conducted by Tom Medlin, W5KUB, it was revealed that Allen under his real name of Tim Dick, had passed his Technician test but they declined to make his call public. It did not take much sleuthing on the part of the ham radio community to find out that he had been assigned the call KK6OTD with that information plastered all across the various social networks shortly after the K6H operating event ended. Amodeo concluded by saying that there were some 35 operators and guests who showed up this year. And while there is no final contact count available as we go to air, NN6JA says that everyone who took part enjoyed being on the set of Last Man Standing and being a part of this years K6H Hollywood Celebrates Ham Radio operation. The 4th season of Last Man Standing with Tim Allen, KK6OTD, portraying Mike Baxter, KAZ0XTT, was scheduled to premiere with a double episode on Friday, October 3rd on the ABC television network. abc.go/shows/last-man-standing
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:42:01 +0000
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