Hams are accustomed to being the ones providing community service -- and so it was a special privilege for the Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club in Wisconsin to be on the receiving end recently. The Moraine Park Technical College donated five laptops to assist the club with its work in amateur radio education, license testing and emergency communications, including its Field Day operations.

The donations kept club member Lloyd Vandervort N9RPU hard at work setting up the club logging programs,

Dave McCumber, N9WQ, club president, issued a statement saying that the additional computing power will [quote] "strengthen our ability to teach, train and support both new and experienced radio operators throughout the region." [endquote]