Growing Family of Hams – March 2018 VE Session Success Story

Second Sunday of Most Months

Many people in the local ham radio community are aware of the Northern Shenandoah DX Association’s VE Sessions that have been held the second Sunday of most months at the SVARC club house

What Made March 2018’s Session Special

On the left, is Megan Strite, who successfully passed her Technician class examination. On the right, is her older sister Audrey (KN4CHI/AG), who successfully upgraded to General class. Sandra Bowen (KF4EKA), a VE, active member, past officer and retired Loudoun County school teacher, was honored and proud to pose with these two wonderful young ladies showing off their freshly minted CSCEs.

This past Sunday’s VE Session (March 10th, 2018) at the club house yielded several successes in the pursuit of Amateur Radio Licensing. Among those were two daughters of our current club treasurer, Mr. Bradley Strite (N3RBU). Bradley has been a ham radio operator for many years, and Audrey has been licensed as a technician class for almost a year, and successfully passed her General exam this Sunday. The two girls have a younger sibling, a brother Ivan, who we are ‘working on’ to get him interested as well. Certainly, we are fortunate to have a wonderful family of hams among us. Rumor has it that Mrs. Strite (Bradley’s wife, and mother of the two young ladies in the photo above) is interested in joining the ranks as well, to make it a full house of hams.

Full Speed Ahead with Ham Radio

Not being prone to dawdle, Audrey has already worked multiple club members on HF (including yours truly), and Megan is eagerly awaiting her call sign to join in on the air. Congratulations Audrey and Megan on your successes, and we look forward to you being are part of amateur radio for some time to come!