The Sun
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This is only a test

Ham radio operator George Hopkins participates in a field test conducted by the Sunnyvale Amateur Radio Club in Washington Park June 23. Operators set up their equipment for a "shakedown run" June 22-23 as part of a national field test sponsored by the American Radio Relay League. SAR member Roger Capwell said the field test gives radio operators a chance to fine-tune their emergency communications skills under primitive conditions, using generators, solar-powered equipment and portable antennas, and to contact thousands of other operators throughout the United States and Canada.

This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, June 26, 1996.
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