The Mesilla Valley Radio Club of Las Cruces, New Mexico will be operating special events station K5B on March 25, 2012 in conjunction with the 23rd annual Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon held annually at the White Sands Missile Range. K5B will operate from 1000Z to 2300Z.
K5B will be operating as near as possible to 21.337, 14.330, 7.225, and 3.893 megahertz as band conditions permit. Last year, K5B spent most of its time on twenty meters.
A commemorative QSL card for the event will be available by request. Send your QSL card confirming your contact with a business sized self addressed stamped envelope [please use a Forever stamp]. Please write ‘K5B’ in big letters on the lower, left hand corner of the outer envelope. A sample of the card appears above.
The K5B mailing address is:
Special Events Station K5B
c/o Mesilla Valley Radio Club
P. O. Box 1443
Las Cruces, NM 88004-1443
All QSL requests must be received by Friday, April 20. Please allow four to six weeks from that date to receive the K5B QSL card.
DX stations wanting our card should send their QSL to us. If you don’t send an SASE with U.S. postage, we will send it to you via the ARRL Outgoing QSL bureau.
We cannot accept cash due to event policy. So please do not send us money as we will just have to return it to you.
The URL for the event is
http://www.bataanmarch.com .
The URL for K5B is http://www.n5bl.org/bataan .
Last revised: January 20, 2012.