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Cemeteries on the Air?

Moleculo

Moleculo

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Everyone knows about SOTA and POTA. When I travel to small, out of the way locations, I like to stop by the local cemetary to learn something about the history of the area...it's fascinating to me what you can learn by reading some of the tombstones coupled with info available on the internet. Even if it's only for 15-20 minutes, I've stopped in country-side graveyards out in wine country, ghost towns, and even military installations. A few years ago, I went to Virginia City in Nevada and was blown away by the history of that cemetery. I'm going to Virginia City again in the near future and will probably stop by again. And I'll probably have a small Elecraft KX2 ham radio with me.

So I was thinking, do you think we could make Cemeteries on the Air a thing? Apart from the historical aspects, Halloween could be the ultimate event. Is this a strange idea?
 
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Virginia City is a neat little town. Comstock lode was an important historical event for the US. It's been a while since my wife and I visited, but we really enjoyed it. Rooms were like $25 a week, and all the conveniences of home...community bathroom down the hall, adjustment of room temp depended on the opening of the window.

 
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Moleculo said:
Everyone knows about SOTA and POTA. When I travel to small, out of the way locations, I like to stop by the local cemetary to learn something about the history of the area...it's fascinating to me what you can learn by reading some of the tombstones coupled with info available on the internet. Even if it's only for 15-20 minutes, I've stopped in country-side graveyards out in wine country, ghost towns, and even military installations. A few years ago, I went to Virginia City in Nevada and was blown away by the history of that cemetery. I'm going to Virginia City again in the near future and will probably stop by again. And I'll probably have a small Elecraft KX2 ham radio with me.

So I was thinking, do you think we could make Cemeteries on the Air a thing? Apart from the historical aspects, Halloween could be the ultimate event. Is this a strange idea?
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The idea is not strange. I have thought about activating the small country cemetery, Little Denmark, where my Father is laid to rest. It is inset into a farm field along a back country road in Michigan. He was not a Ham. Off to the other side of the cemetery is a stone with a radiating antenna inscribed on and the Ham's call sign along with a music sheet inscribed for his wife. He was a friend of my Father when they were growing up and is still active on the air in his 80's on 160 meters. A special event is really not necessary. With all the POTA gear available and off grid power sources. Just going out to your family members final resting place and spending time enjoying our hobby and remembering them. That is a very therapeutic thing to do.

Darrell, N8JTV 73
 
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Sorry, i know this has been on here for a while and hopefully you dont mind me
raising an old topic. I have actually thought about this for some time now and was thinking about just doing it with no prior announcement. Maybe using some old timey/dead? mode like hellschriber, RTTY, pactor one? My qualifications .... i'm a general class amateur operator, retired licensed embalmer in both California and Nevada, retired Funeral Director in Nevada and have interred a few in the Virginia City Cemetery. Now i live just outside of Spokane, WA (Ford, WA) and spend half of my time on my live-aboard sailboat moored on the Oregon coast. In my traveling back and forth i have looked over quite a few cemeteries.

My e-mail, in case anyone else is interested is: veast1@att.net

Best 73,
Paul (N6MYA) a.k.a. Sam
 
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If it's a cemetery that has frequent visitors (and is still in use) I'd probably activate from a mobile rather than setting up an antenna on the grounds. Some facilities people and local LEO might get a little objectionable to anyone doing business there apart from paying respects to the departed.

I can think of a few cemeteries around me which haven't had a new grave dug in decades, so those might be another matter entirely.
 
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