Groups of amateur radio volunteers will be hamming it up Saturday in support of North Olympic Peninsula emergency services authorities.
Using amateur — or ham — radio frequencies, Amateur Radio Emergency Services/Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services volunteers will take to the airwaves to provide communication across Jefferson and Clallam counties.
The volunteers will demonstrate their skills as part of a field day exercise in the Port Angeles and Port Townsend areas.
The public is invited to watch and, in some cases, take part.
In Port Angeles, the Clallam County Amateur Radio Club will set up radios and antennas Saturday starting at 8 a.m. at the southeast corner of Erickson Playfield, Race and Second streets, for its annual field day to test homeland security emergency preparedness.
The Radio Club will lead the daylong test, which starts at 11 a.m., of emergency equipment, in conjunction with Amateur Radio Emergency Services and the Amateur Radio Civil Emergency Services.
The test in Port Angeles will continue until 11 p.m.
In Jefferson County, amateur radio aficionados will take to the air at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday at Old Fort Townsend State Park at the end of Old Fort Townsend Road off state Highway 20 south of Port Townsend.
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