Ham Radio Operators Send Message Of Hope During Yard Sale Special Event (Ohio)

A group of ham radio operators is creating a “Special Event” to make the annual US 127 Yard Sale an even more special event than it already is.

Members of the Williams County Amateur Radio Association will be stationed at the New Hope Community Church north of Bryan, Ohio on US Hwy 127 during what’s billed as the “World’s Longest Yard Sale” on August 1-3, 2024.

They will be calling attention to the church’s efforts to bring hope and help to abandoned children, people with special needs, prisoners, and others in Uganda through their personal mission efforts of sending teams there and support for when they are back here at home.

The church will have their large parking lot on US Hwy 127 filled with people who have rented spaces to sell their yard sale items as well as offering food for sale, whose proceeds are all going to their Uganda Mission work which the church has been doing for about ten years.

For their part, the ham operators are having what is termed a Special Event. “For ham radio operators, a Special Event is a publicly significant event where a club like ours sets up a number of radios and are given a special call-sign that attracts other ham operators to contact us,” said Stan DeGroff, president of the Williams County group.

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