Rigs of every vintage - and quite a few new ones - will be tuned to 1.936 MHz on December 18th for pre-net check-ins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time. This will be a very special edition of the Greater Cincinnati Amateur Radio Association 1936 Net. It was, in fact, October of that year when the then-newly-formed association started hosting this regular net.

The popular on-air activity came to a halt with the start of second World War and did not resume until 1986 - the year that club members decided to revive it and mark the association's 50th anniversary. The net managers are Jay, K8CJY and Geoff W8GNM. Bill, NM4A, is the net control operator and an average of 65 stations check-in each week.

This special net is expected to last two hours. After pre-net check-ins, the net iself gets going at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Hams around the US are invited to fire up their rigs - any rigs. Tom KDØIEL told Newsline in an email: [quote] "This is a great opportunity to hear some classic AM rigs, heavy metal, military, broadcast AM transmitters, state of the art software-defined radio...and virtually any ham radio capable of AM mode." [endquote]