On the weekend of June 27-8, a team of more than 50 local amateur radio operators, communicating under the callsign W3AO, will set up radio equipment in the field to compete in the American Radio Relay League “Field Day,” a test of emergency operating skills.The team, deployed in the field behind Glenwood Middle School on Route 97 in Howard County, will be pitting their skills against more than 35,000 radio amateurs throughout the U.S. and Canada, and even some stations in Central and South America.The team has finished first every year since 1998 in this, the nation’s largest amateur radio operating event.The public is welcome to visit to see amateur radio in action and even get a chance to make some contacts themselves under tutelage from the group.