2025 Boston Marathon
This story was also published in the May edition of The SPARC, the Boston Amateur Radio Club newsletter. On Patriots’ Day 2025, I woke up at sometime around 2:45am, not that I wanted to be up that early, I just happened to wake up then. Nevertheless, just after 4am, I was out the door of my house and on my way to a Dunkins on Route 1 in Saugus. There I would meetup with Jim, KB1KQW, the Course Coordinator for the Boston Marathon for the past decade or so and a good friend of mine. Also joining us, was another Patrick, KC1UIT. From there, we made the trek to a Babson College parking lot in Wellesley and began to distribute some jackets for early course volunteers. By 6:30am I was off to Framingham to retrieve a jacket and then began working my way down course to deliver volunteer jackets to my station and others in Natick and Wellesley. I was on station at Medical Tent 6, stationed at Wellesley College (right before the famous “Scream Tunnel”) just sometime after 7am. There I met wi...