The outstanding Al Bahr Shriners radio station, the Robert T. Dalzell Memorial Station - K6ABR, is licensed by the FCC and located in the "Clubs" building behind the Temple, with the capability of communicating with any point on the planet.

You may have seen the elaborate beam antenna atop the station’s tower being rotated to direct the transmitted signal to a point in another state, or country on another continent, bouncing the transmission off the ionosphere to reach the distant station and maintain communication. The huge rotatable antenna atop the tower is a dead giveaway to what’s inside the station.  The radio station is equipped to communicate with any spot on the globe, and with orbiting Amateur Radio satellites as well as astronaut hams while they are in orbit.

The station call letters - K6ABR - are assigned by the Federal Communications Commission, and allow the station to be operated on frequencies agreed upon by all the nations of the world.  There are prefix combinations of letters and numbers that identify each geographical spot on the Earth, and several individual suffix letters that further identify each individual amateur radio station.  For example, in the call sign - “K6ABR” - the letter “K” indicates the United States, the number “6”, indicates the state of California, and the letters “ABR” indicate the Al Bahr Shriners Robert T. Dalzell Memotial Station.

Hams are issued “station” letters, and these letters - called “call signs” - are used by hams wherever they may be operating, be it from home, a vehicle or a handheld handi-talkie, and instantly identify the individual ham from all the other six million ham stations throughout the world.  In addition, if a ham is operating from a location far away from their registered station location or from another nation, they simply add the location or national sufffix to their individual, assigned call sign.

Located within the RADOPS station is the  priceless, world class museum collection of vacuum tubes, on display, reflecting the history of radio, from its earliest beginning, in 1904, to a few, huge tubes used today in commercial radio and TV broadcasting applications.

To operate the radio equipment at the Robert T. Dalzell Memorial Station - K6ABR, all a RADOPS Club member needs is a quick check out, keys to the station, and his Amateur Radio license.