[GCARC] W2MMD SITE

Fri Sep 4 19:41:19 EDT 2015

I should mention that I used 240 Bridgeton Pike as I could not find an address back then, so I used the address listed on the Hamfest flyer at the time (2009). Now, the flyer says 235, and the 4-H lists fairgrounds as 275. I will have to modify the posts for next year.
Vinnie

> From: yankees_1996 at hotmail.com
> To: jim.n2gxj at gmail.com; w2rm at arrl.net
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 19:30:22 -0400
> CC: gcarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GCARC] W2MMD SITE
> 
> 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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