The Bagels and Bluegrass Ride across Southwest Tennessee is a bicycle ride featuring Southwest Tennessee’s State Parks and scenic roads. The 100 mile route has a total climb of grea
ter than 7,000 feet. The ride begins with a breakfast of bagels at the staging area located at Jackson State Community College, on the corner of State Highway 412 (Parkway) and US 70 in Jackson, Tennessee. Featured stops include Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area, the largest Middle Woodland Indian Complex in the Southeast, cons
isting of at least 15 earthen mounds; and Chickasaw State Park, near Henderson, Tennessee. The West Tennessee Amateur Radio Society, as it has in years past, provided communication services for this event. Throughout the day, radio operators tracked over 100 bicycle riders through as series of six checkpoints with information relayed to our Net control station located in our communication trailer parked at Jackson State Community College.
Congratulatio
ns to all who participated in today's event. You did a great job and enhanced the character and reputation of WTARS and Ham Radio in the process.
GMWinslow, President
WTARS
