[FARC] Tour de Frederick Hams Needed!

[Jeff Fishman]

The Frederick Amateur Radio Club and Frederick ARES will again this year be
providing communications support for the Tour de Frederick on Saturday,
August 13th. This year, the Start and Finish is at the AOPA Hangar at the
Frederick Airport, and the individual races start at 0630, 0730, and 0900
(100, 60, and 30 mile), and all races will conclude by 1500.

 

The emphasis this year will be to have you ride shotgun in up to 9 SAG and
Sweep vehicles, rather than at the rest stops as we did last year. We will
be using the Thurmont 147.195+ (PL 179.9) repeater, with the MADXRA 147.060
machine as a backup. We will ask operators to provide their own 2M rigs with
a cigarette lighter plug and a quick mount (mag or clip-on, etc.) antenna.
The coverage on the Thurmont repeater is very good, so you'll probably only
need to use 1-5 watts to communicate, so a higher power HT w/outside antenna
should also work. Let me know if you really want to use your own vehicle,
and we also have a few mag-mount antennas to loan.

 

We'll do our best to keep the shifts reasonable so you don't have to operate
all day (unless you want to!). Please let me know the following:

.         Your name and call

.         Radio and antenna you'll be using

.         When you're available

.         Your cell number and email

.         Your T shirt size (FREE T SHIRTS!)

.         Your blood type (just kidding, hi, hi)

 

As always, you don't have to be a member of FARC, ARES, or any other amateur
group to participate, just a community minded ham wishing to help a worthy
local cause, and all proceeds benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs of Frederick
County.

 

Thanks.

 

73,

 

Jeff Fishman KB3FIO

FRED ARES Emergency Coordinator

ljfish1 at comcast.net

240-285-6596