Local Hams (Amateur Radio Operators) from a long-standing Giles County community-focused club — Southern Tennessee Amateur Radio Services (STARS) — recently participated in a special operating event in which they contacted other Hams from all over the United States and foreign countries, including Europe.
The purpose was to commemorate and raise awareness of the Trail of Tears, which traverses much of Giles County.
The operators, along with their home callsigns, included George Haun, KM4D; Kevin Vaden, K1TAP; Brian Howell, KE4KVC; John Randall, W4EAH; Wade Bass, KQ4TBV; and Steve Hughey, AK4R.
The group — using the Special Event callsign, K4T — was active commemorating the Trail of Tears from Sept. 9-23; Sept. 16 was Trail of Tears Commemoration Day. The group gathered at First National Bank’s Community Park Gazebo, a location right on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and not far from the Trail of Tears Interpretive Center.
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