[GCARC] W2MMD SITE

[Vinnie Sallustio]

I have posted the hamfest on eham and QRZ forums as I have done since I have been with the club in 2009. All point to a Google Map with the 4-H address. 
Vinnie N4NYY

> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:00:43 -0400
> From: jim.n2gxj at gmail.com
> To: W2RM at arrl.net
> CC: GCARC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GCARC] W2MMD SITE
> 
> Hello Ray,  cc: all club members (oops?)
> 
> For those phone calls that you have been getting, please direct anyone who
> wishes directions for our Hamfest to our web site, w2mmd.org.
> There, on the HAMFEST 2015 page, will be found a flyer with printed
> directions to our Hamfest location, including GPS coordinates (39.715,
> -75.211), that can help get you there.
> As we know, but others might not, the Hamfest is at the 4-H fairgrounds on
> Route 77, just outside of Mullica Hill, NJ, and not in Pitman NJ, which is
> the town for the PO box that shows up on the qrz.com/db/w2mmd site.
> 
> As for that Pitman address on the QRZ page, the address info on a QRZ page
> is for where someone sends their QSL card, which for us is a PO box in
> Pitman NJ. So the QRZ listing is correct in selecting a Pitman location.
> Instead of asking why not a Mullica Hill site, you could have asked why we
> did we not select the home address of our club's W2MMD license trustee
> either as the location on the QRZ site.  The answer would have been the
> same - because that would not be a Pitman address either.
> Ok, so why the water tower's GPS coordinates?
> Since we have a PO box in Pitman, and not a street address, we could have
> put the geo coordinates on Cory's house (he does live in Pitman), but
> (sorry Cory) that location in Pitman is not the most significant location
> in Pitman for our club.  Instead, the geo coordinates were picked to be the
> location of the Pitman water tower where 3 of our 4 repeater systems are
> homed (2m, 440, 1.2, the other one being in Washington Township).  That way
> it has a Pitman address, rather than a Mullica Hill, or other town address,
> and has some significance to our club.
> 
> Rather clever on wa3uvv's part, don't you think?
> 
> Related to this email distribution....
> Even though the original email was addressed to Cory, it looks like the
> email address used went to the whole club.  An oops?  And I know I pressed
> "reply all" on this email, which has now sent an email to the whole club in
> response. Sorry everyone for the spam. Hope the conversation was
> interesting.
> If there are follow-up questions, please email them to me direct at
> jim.n2gxj at gmail.com, or to Cory direct, either at his direct email that was
> listed on the referenced QRZ.com/db/w2mmd site (wa3uvv at arrl.net), or the
> address that appears in our club roster.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Thanks!
> Jim
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:54 AM, <W2RM at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> > Cory,
> >
> > Why is it that when you go to QRZ.COM  and bring up W2MMD, hit details to
> > bring up the map - then hit satellite that it shows the Pitman water tower
> > and not the club site in
> >
> > Mullica Hill?   I think it should show the club site.  I pass this along
> > because I have been getting phone calls from people that want to come to
> > the
> > ham fest looking for the coordinates for their GPS units.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Ray W2RM
> >
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