Dwight Hastings waved his hand in frustration and went back to refining reception of a radio transmission from San Francisco at Riverside Park Saturday afternoon.
He gingerly turned a dial on a ham radio owned by Iolan Ralph Romig and finally, with crackling interference eliminated, heard the other operator’s voice clearly.
Hastings was among about a dozen ham operators who participated in American Radio Relay League Field Day activities over the weekend. The annual field day dates to the mid-1950s. This was Iola Amateur Radio Club’s fifth year of participation.