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

[jefflih at aol.com]

Sound good, and I DO have keys for the building and live pretty close 
by.
Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Kopecky <w2iu at hotmail.com>
To: ETSList <etslist at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thu, May 23, 2013 9:51 pm
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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