[ETS/PARC List] FIELD DAY WEEKEND, June 22nd and 23rd, 2013

[Dennis Kopecky]

Minor correction, spotted by Drew, and thank you ! My email address should appear as   w2iu at hotmail.com   , not as it appears now with my callsign twice, once in caps, and once as you see here. In proofing the email, I missed that I didn't leave some space between my call, and my email address. Hopefully, this hasn't caused any problem thusfar.
73,Dennis, W2IU  

> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:35:33 -0400
> From: drumor at optonline.net
> Subject: RE: [ETS/PARC List] FIELD DAY WEEKEND, June 22nd and 23rd, 2013
> To: w2iu at hotmail.com
> 
> Your information at the bottom create one big invalid link. Hopefully people
> won't use it but instead simply reply to your message. It sounds like a good
> idea to me, but I have no idea of what shape I'll be in by that weekend..
> 
> 73,
> Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: etslist-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:etslist-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dennis Kopecky
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 10:05 AM
> To: ETSList
> Subject: [ETS/PARC List] FIELD DAY WEEKEND, June 22nd and 23rd, 2013
> 
> In a chance qso on one of the repeaters one afternoon, I happened to work
> Rich Hedinger, W2YQ, a former Clark Police Officer (retired), and still
> involved with the communications function with the Clark OEM.
> I got to talking with him about possibly having access to the OEM station,
> in the room next to where we meet each month, in the Clark Municipal Bldg.,
> for a Field Day operation by our club. Seems at one time , there had been FD
> ops there, and well, maybe, though late already for this year, we could
> perhaps generate some sort of participation in the weekend again.
> I did get a positive email response from Rich, that Jerry, the OEM
> administrator, has said we could operate FD weekend from there, as both of
> these gentlemen well remember FD ops from there in years past.
> My vision would be to run the station as an F class operation, which
> essentially means operated from a site that already exists as an emergency
> communications operations center, of Federal, State, County, or City, etc.
> facility, commercial or emergency power. See Sec. 4.8 of the ARRL 2013 FD
> Rules.
> So really, what this says is that we could use the site if we have
> sufficient operator interest and that's all that would be required. All the
> equipment is already there, with these exceptions Rich had mentioned: he
> would like to schedule re-hanging of the G5RV antenna which was once there,
> and if we could bring another rig along with us, and operate the two
> stations.
> Obviously, we should still have enough time to re-hang the G5RV, and yes, I
> think we could get access to the TS-2000 package which the club has.
> As we are having our "May meeting" at the June 2nd picnic, there should be
> set aside some time to seriously discuss whether we want to use this
> opportunity to participate in FD Weekend, and what sort of time our members
> can or want to devote to this activity. As it is late in the planning
> stages, I would rather hear from as many of you as we can to SPEAK OUT, and
> give us your thoughts, even if, you already have plans for that weekend:
> Clark OEM is only asking for a headcount, and we really need your response,
> even if it is that you would or would not like to participate (possibly
> because of other activities you have planned for FD weekend).
> All of the other facilities there at the site would be available to us:
> refrigerator, coffee machines, bathrooms, etc., although I would not expect
> for this year's (experiment) that we should plan on any food service
> commitments, beyond bringing in our own, or something like sharing pizza,
> etc., and contributions of soft drinks, that you happen to bring along.
> Please feel free to email or call me with your thoughts and ideas before the
> picnic, and bring these to the picnic so we could know what course of action
> the members want to do with this opportunity!
> 73 all,
> Dennis, W2IUw2iu at hotmail.com908-486-4871, please lv. a msg., if I'm not
> available.908-347-3356 cell         		 	   		  
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