Archived Articles Guts on the Airwaves June 27, 2008 From July 1-16, 2008, more than just Frisbees will take to the air for Guts. Gene Marsh, a long-time guts player and amateur radio operator (W8NET), will be operating a "special event" station, callsign "K1G". "Special event stations are available to amateur radio operators to commemorate special occasions, anniversaries, etc.", Marsh said. "This represents an opportunity for me to have some fun with the radio and answer the inevitable questions, 'what the heck is guts?' to a whole bunch of people!" Marsh requested the special event station to commemorate the end of the 50th year of Guts Frisbee, and to coincide with the 51st International Frisbee Tournament (IFT), to be held July 5-6. Amateur radio operators, or "hams", are licensed by the FCC to operate a radio on certain frequencies. There are three licensing levels, which have priveleges based on the level of licensing. Marsh hopes to contact many stations in the U.S. and abroad. "Ham operators routinely exchange a kind of postcard, called a QSL card, with each other. It has some information like the date, time and fruequency of the contact. I intend to operate on as many frequencies as I can during the special event period, and will be using a radio in my truck while I am on the road during this time." Marsh has designed four special QSL cards for the event, each depicting a photo of guts players from the past. He says he expects to make contact with more than 2500 other ham radio operators - worldwide. "I really can't do much with the cards I will receive for this special event. I'm going to package them up and send them to the Frisbee Hall of Fame as an interesting novelty item." For information about amateur radio special event stations, please visit www.arrl.org/contests/spev.html