Lad Carrington, W4ORD, has the privilege of explaining Amateur Radio to Michelle Montgomery, Miss Occoneechee/Orange Speedway 2011 (credit photo: K3VSA)
Lad Carrington (W4ORD) did his usual excellent job of representing Amateur Radio at the Occoneechee Speedway’s fifth annual Car Show and and racers’ reunion. This was the second year in which we had a presence at the event, which features fifty years’ worth of classic automobiles and race cars–some complete with their original vintage drivers.
The Occoneechee Speedway at historic Hillsborough (NC) dates back to the 1948 inauguration of NASCAR and is the last remaining of the famous heritage “dirt tracks.”
Lad manned a booth promoting ham radio and providing emergency communication support through the Orange County Radio Amateurs’ W4UNC 442.150MHz repeater. Other OCRA members who attended included Dee Ramm (KU4GC), MK Ramm (W4MKR), Lenore Ramm (KF4PAB), Vic Merryman (K0OUX), Dewey Thompson (WA4AHR), and Woody Woodward (K3VSA).
-Raymond “Woody” Woodward K3VSA
ARRL Public Information Coordinator for North Carolina
(an ARRL-trained Public Information Officer)