[CC-ARES-RACES] CQ Field Day!!!

Mon, 13 May 2002 21:04:45 EDT

Hello everyone,

     I don't know if anyone is counting the days but Field Day, that premier 
amateur event of the year, will rapidly be upon us. We're only about 6 weeks 
away. (If this were Christmas I'd just slink lower in my chair, grumble "Bah, 
Humbug!" and wish that it were spring.) Anyhow...I'd like to start outlining 
some basic duties/responsibilities WITHOUT assigning names. I have an idea of 
people that I thought may fit in to certain positions but:

    A. I don't want to exclude anyone.
    B. I don't want to assign someone to a task they are unwilling to do.
    C. I'm waiting for that really highly motivated volunteer to call or 
email me saying
        "Don't worry, I'll handle everything! (I'm also waiting to win a trip 
to Hawaii with   
         Sandra Bullock.)

While I said at the April meeting that scores don't mean much to me, I would 
like to see us put 3 stations on the air this year. One for SSB, one for CW 
and a GOTA station for those who might be a little timid about getting on the 
air in front of us "Old-Timers". (Never thought of my self as an "old-timer" 
until recently when a cute young lady was hired at Blossom Point and I found 
out I'd been working there BEFORE she was born. But I digress...)

Here's the BASIC list of areas of major responsibility that I've identified. 
W3TOM provided us with a great list of necessary items-and it must be a great 
list for as many field days as its been passed along. Here are the areas that 
have been identified:

Area                                    Primary

1. Station HF#1-voice

2. Station HF#2-CW             Bill (KE3RE) Palmer has volunteered for this

3. GOTA station                   Art (AA3RT)-I said I'd help with this

4. Generator                         Tom (W3TOM) has volunteered

5. Grill/cooking                     (And I promise-no jokes about skinny 
cooks this year!)

6. Publicity

7. Computers                       This is the area where we really came up 
short last       
                                           year.

Like I said, I have some ideas of who I might like to head some of these 
positions but will wait to see if anyone is really enthused about heading up 
these areas where there are no names. Please call or email if you have an 
urge to help out. And make sure you email or call before the urge goes away! 

For those who turned out, last year's Field Day had los of food, fun, 
cameraderie and-oh, yeah, we operated radios too!

Seriously, we learned a lot last year about what-and what not-to do. I'm 
hoping that this year's Field Day will give everyone another chance to learn 
about radio theory, operation, antenna setup, whatever. You might even learn 
about some of your fellow club members and find out they're some pretty good 
folks :^) . 

Contact numbers-Home (301)934-1878, work (301)934-5576 (730 am- 400 pm)
Email: [email protected]

   73, de Aa3rt

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