[FARC] Scout Merit Badge Help

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Bob, 



         This sounds great!  My son, Mark Thomas, KB3SRY,  is the junior staff and really looking forward to assisting you in class that week!  



                George Thomas IV 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Moroney" <windbrkr at erols.com> 
To: "FARC Mail List" <farc at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 5:35:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [FARC] Scout Merit Badge Help 


Jim N3HTA, Jack N3JP, Mark KB3SRY and I will be conducting a Boy Scout 
Radio Merit Badge program at the upcoming week-long Scout camp being 
held at Camp Airy (near Thurmont) from Tuesday, 8/18 through Saturday, 
8/22.  (These dates are a week earlier than the dates I originally 
mentioned at last month's FARC meeting.) 

I think the four of us can handle the program for the first four days 
(two groups of up to 15 Scouts each, in two consecutive sessions each 
afternoon), but we could use more help for the final sessions on Saturday. 

Instead of having the Scouts do the usual thing of getting on the air 
and QSOing with Hams on HF and/or the local repeaters/echolink, I plan 
to try a SET-like COMMEX, where teams of Scouts disperse to the corners 
of the camp grounds, and attempt to pass traffic back to another team 
Scouts acting as Net Control.  (This sort of exercise was suggested by 
Alan KA3DYL, and sounds like a great alternative to the "usual" 
get-on-the-air activities Scouts get to do.) 

I plan to give the Scouts FRS HTs to use for the COMMEX, but it would be 
good to have a licensed Ham accompany each Scout team to monitor their 
activity, assist as needed, and make an alternate (2 meter) channel of 
communications available. 

If you can help, please let me know by email or a phone call 
(301-831-5060).   The estimated time commitment would be between Noon 
and 4 PM on Saturday, 8/22/09.  Equipment needed would be a 2M HT and 
whatever portable power source and antenna you normally work with.   (I 
can also probably scare up a couple of extra 2M/440 HTs, if needed.) 

Thanks & 73, 
Bob K9CMR 
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