[GCARC] FW: K2AA is operating the Pandemic Class 7E - Extended area operations

Wed May 20 22:39:58 EDT 2020

Hi All,
Unknown to me, a number of requests to change the rules this year have already been made and rejected by the powers that be at ARRL.
This was confirmed in the email I received back from Hudson ARRL Director N2RJ Ria Jairam tonigh.
73 Darrell AB2E

"rjairam at gmail.com
Wed 5/20/2020 10:08 PM
Reply
I am sorry but despite my and several other Directors repeated pleas
to have the rules amended to allow these kinds of operations, the ARRL
Programs and Services Committee remained firm on its decision to not
change the rules, period. There is simply not majority support to
amend the rules for this year.

At this point I am telling clubs to find creative and innovative ways
to operate. This includes internet or wifi remote bases set up at
field day sites. Note that the transmitters and antennas have to be
within 1000 feet but NOT the operators.

There will be a non-ARRL tally of affiliated club scores. I was told
that ARRL may make a CSV of the scores available with club names.
However, club rankings won't be published in QST.

73
Ria
N2RJ    "
> On May 20, 2020 at 8:39 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC <ab2e at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Vinnie,
> All your points in Plan A sound viable and workable.
> Checking with the Chief of Police and perhaps requesting permission in writing well in advance would be good. 
> Maybe setup helpers could start signing up with the FD chairman?
> Like Vinnie's point #4, we can only have serious helpers this year, and casual visitors have to be discouraged.
> 
> Another question relating to Vinnie's points 3 & 5. It sounds like stations spread out will not count towards the 10 person gathering, only the clubhouse occupants? I think we could argue that the operating stations are far enough apart that they fully comply with social distancing.
> 
> OK 73, Darrell AB2E
> 
> > On May 20, 2020 at 7:59 PM Vinnie Sallustio <yankees_1996 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Plan A:
> > 
> > I think we can still have it at the club site. But we have to change the parameters. My suggestions are:
> > 
> > 1. Not public. We close it to the public. No public information table and no visitors that are not associated with the club.
> > 
> > 2. Bring your own food. We can no way distubute food. Each station is responsible for their own food.
> > 
> > 3. No more than 4 people in the clubhouse, that is Jeff Garth + 3 people. This includes anyone that is on the tank.
> > 
> > 4. If you are not contributing to Field Day, stay home. Contributing means assisting in antenna raising, operating, tent raising, etc. This won't be a problem if we are not serving food because many people just come to eat, and do nothing else. Not even helping Jeff to clean up.
> > 
> > 5. Each station stays separate to keep within the 10 people limit. Usually, there is a lot of visiting between station members just to shoot the shit. This won't be able to happen.
> > 
> > 6. Make sure the the police are OK with this so they don't shut us down after everything is set up.
> > 
> > 
> > Plan B:
> > 
> > I like Darryl's plan where we operate from home with each station at a band/mode. If the ARRL will accept us working under the W2MMD umbrella as an Echo station.
> > 
> > I also am suggesting special W2MMD phonetics:  Wuhan 2 Malaria Malaria Donald
> > 
> > VINNIE N4NYY
> > 
> > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Tablet
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> > 
> > ________________________________
> > From: gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <gcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on behalf of djgrath1 <djgrath1 at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 6:05:18 PM
> > To: gcarc at mailman.qth.net <gcarc at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: [GCARC] FW: K2AA is operating the Pandemic Class 7E - Extended area operations
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > D. Jeffrey Garth
> > 
> > 621 Greenbriar Drive
> > 
> > Williamstown, NJ 08094-1149
> > 
> > 73, WB2ZBN
> > 
> > Club Publications
> > 
> > www.w2mmd.org<http://www.w2mmd.org>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"
> > - Confucius
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From: ken at k2wb.com [mailto:ken at k2wb.com]
> > Sent: May 20, 2020 17:26
> > To: info at mikeandkey.org; w2mmdgcarc at gmail.com; ab1oc at arrl.net;
> > k5eok at k5eok.org; fieldday at frrl.org; w9dup at w9dup.org; kc0alc at arrl.net;
> > k8uo at arrl.net; webmaster at w6trw.com; w8ctm at yahoo.com; w4hfh at arrl.net;
> > qrz at snars.org; president at w7gra.org; webmaster at larc.ca; mvbanks at gmail.com;
> > WA2BSP at gmail.com; k2dfe at yahoo.com; WA2VYA Frank
> > Cc: 'SJRA Harmonics Email Distribution'; 'Abernethy, Tom, W3TOM (Dir, AT)';
> > 'Tom Preiser (N2XW)'
> > Subject: K2AA is operating the Pandemic Class 7E - Extended area operations
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Fellow Field Day Operations,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > My name is Ken K2WB of the South Jersey Radio Association (aka K2AA & SJRA)
> > Field Day Chairperson,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The ARRL Field Day is an emergency preparedness drill. With this current
> > "Emergency" that we find ourselves, does not fit the types of emergencies we
> > have been preparing for. With social distancing rules and paranoia the SJRA
> > finds itself in an interesting situation.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Our FD operation brings out over 60 people to help, setup, operate and take
> > down. Our operation shelters would easily violate the 6 foot rule. Lastly
> > our state (New Jersey) would have to drop the rule of not allowing public
> > gatherings of more than 10 people. This all has to happen prior to Field
> > Day.  Even if we are allowed to congregate in public we think that a lot of
> > our support would not show up trying to be safe.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The SJRA determined that we would not learn anything on how to communicate &
> > coordinate as a group in this type of emergency just by operating as bunch
> > of 1D or 1A stations listing our club affiliation.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Here is our plan B:
> > 
> > *       Operate as (in our case) 7E. We are not going to follow the 1000 ft
> > circle rule but will follow the 175mi Radius club rule instead.
> > *       Coordinate operating as K2AA on 7 bands and modes from as many
> > member home stations as possible. All stations would have written permission
> > to operate as K2AA from the trustee and will follow all FCC rules and
> > regulations.
> > *       All transmitters and receivers will be powered by emergency power
> > (which keeps us in the "E" category). Still using your home antennas,
> > shelter and allows us to contact all station categories. In accordance to
> > the Field Day "E" category rule.
> > *       Use our Repeater and Zoom to coordinate operations throughout the 24
> > hours.
> > *       Get as many bonus points as practical, keeping the spirit of the
> > Field Day.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Our 7E submission to the ARRL will clearly state that we purposely broke the
> > 1000ft rule and to use our log as a check log.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Things to know: N1MM supports large area linked logs (just like a LAN) which
> > will make it easier to see what is going on. We have done some preliminary
> > testing and found it stable for 4 days with only a couple of computers in 2
> > locations 40 miles apart. It is our plan to increase and test more stations
> > prior to Field Day.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I would be interested if others could share your ideas or plans. So far this
> > is the best we could come up with. If there is enough interest I would be
> > happy to host a WebEx meeting for further discussion or share what we
> > learned.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > We hope to work all of you during Field Day. (7E SNJ)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Good luck and be safe!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please feel free to forward this email to other clubs that you think would
> > be interested in this idea or may have ideas of their own.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 73's
> > 
> > de Ken K2WB
> > 
> > 
> >  <mailto:ken at k2wb.com> ken at k2wb.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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