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February 22, 2026
LVRAC will be setting up and operating several ham radio stations at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park for the Radio Day on Sunday, February 22, 2026.
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park and the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club will be celebrating Radio Day in honor of Chester “Chet” Lauck, on Sunday February 22, 2026.
Throughout the late morning and early afternoon of February 16th, members of the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club will be exhibiting and demonstrating current radio technology, showing how radio is used today at the Visitors Center (Ranch House) parking lot.
Chet Lauck (February 9, 1902 – February 21, 1980) was a comic actor who played the character of Lum Edwards on the classic American radio comedy Lum and Abner. The Lum and Abner network radio comedy program was aired from 1931 to 1954.