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Boys' Life Radio Club Use of K3BSA

We have copies of QSL cards that were sent out by the Boys' Life Radio Club on our Vintage QSL's page, take a look...

There were references to K3BSA in Boys' Life Magazine which can be viewed using the following links:

July 1964 page 3 http://media.boyslife.org/archive/viewer.html?id=HWhA8cruYakC&pg=3&query=k3bsa

June 1957 page 76 http://media.boyslife.org/archive/viewer.html?id=jsuwk3gy8lwC&pg=76 Look for mention of K3BSA in the "What's a Hamboree" article and in the picture/artwork above the article.

November 1957 page 46 http://media.boyslife.org/archive/viewer.html?id=Xg6dEKlEnr4C&pg=46&query=k3bsa

July 1957 page 68 http://media.boyslife.org/archive/viewer.html?id=sUZriXDP61sC&pg=68 Look for mention of K3BSA in the "Jubilee Jamboree Ham Station".

May 1958 page 76 http://media.boyslife.org/archive/viewer.html?id=fxh_4gCLVToC&pg=76 Look for mention of K3BSA in the "Ham Jamboree" article.

A Scouters reference to K3BSA can be found on this Web page:  Participants in 1964 National Jamboree in Comanche Trail
The next evening, I received a "radio-gram" from the on-site Amateur Radio Station K3BSA -- they had been contacted by my Father, also an Amateur Radio Operator ("Ham"), at 10...

K2BSA callsign request granted to the Boy Scouts of America in 1971 according to this article: http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=26608.msg201183#msg201183  This story used to be on the ARRL's Web site.

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