The 2011 Amateur Radio special event commemorating Historic Route 66 was sponsored and organized by the Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club of San Bernardino, California. There were 18 stations operating along Route 66, with 17 of them operated by members of the various clubs along the way. The special event 1 × 1 call signs began with Whiskey-Six-Alpha (W6A) in Santa Monica, California and ran through W6Q in Chicago, Illinois. For the 2011 event we were assigned Whiskey-Six-Tango (W6T) and given the designation “Rover 3.”

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